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Can anyone advise if PG Music have updated the iPad app at all? I tried it a while back and thought it still needed some work. Is anyone using it for live work and if so can you pass on your experiences with it please.
thanks
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So it would seem pretty obvious that it is still "less than stellar" - no responses gives me as good an answer as anything. No rancour here btw with no replies I do understand  ....I guess PG just gave up on it and decided not to develop it any further. Moving on.
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All I can say is that one of the main reasons I upgraded to BIAB 2015 for mac (from 2010.5 version) was to able to use the iPad app. So far it's been a complete bust as I have been unable to successfully download song and rendered sound files to my iPad. It all seems to work--until I try to open the file in the application at which point I discover that it's just not there. When I try to re-download the files I get the message that it already exists and do I want to overwrite the files. So I overwrite the files. Then when I select the folder to which I saved them, nothing shows up. I'm beginning to wonder if I wasted my money on this upgrade.
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I use BIAB on IPad extensively - every day and twice on Sunday's. I have well over 200 songs (mostly jazz standards) on it that I use as backing tracks for my daily use - playing melody and improvising on guitar. For Sunday solos in church,I use it for a bass line, with my own recorded guitar accompaniment (using the Record Audio feature), to back me up. I plan to use it for backup when I start playing in a public setting later this year.
I have had no trouble transferring the songs I have created on the desktop version to my IPad (after a few tips from PG when I went astray) but there are several items for improvement which I have recommended to PG (please see my two postings in the Other Programs Wishlist forum) - most notably the ability to go to the next song in a directory in one step. They have not yet made those improvements but I am hopeful.
Give it a try. It fits so well on a music stand - less noticeable than a laptop and larger than an IPhone.
Cheers! -Alastair
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One question for you guys:
Do you ever use the Conductor function to alter the song structure while you're playing?
If not then why do you care about the app? If you're simply playing your songs from start to finish anyway you can convert them to MP3's and use any one of multiple playlist or jukebox apps on your iPads and you can link them to your fakebook charts too.
Bob
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On the app, when saved externally, I think all audio is converted to mp4 and becomes static. Without BiaB server, generating becomes a barrier. At least that's how I understand it. Why use it? Does your MP3 player show chords? Linking to fakebook means using only fakebook songs in fakebook arrangement. I like to use the app to control recording and practicing. It's handy to be able to stop, rewind, and re-record .. without having to move out from behind a mic, or take the bass off, or get out from behind a drum set, etc. to go start the song over and run back in time to be ready. 
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!
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On the app, when saved externally, I think all audio is converted to mp4 and becomes static. Without BiaB server, generating becomes a barrier. At least that's how I understand it. Why use it? Does your MP3 player show chords? Linking to fakebook means using only fakebook songs in fakebook arrangement. I like to use the app to control recording and practicing. It's handy to be able to stop, rewind, and re-record .. without having to move out from behind a mic, or take the bass off, or get out from behind a drum set, etc. to go start the song over and run back in time to be ready. ^^^^ This!!
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Not only does it show chords, the highlighter shows where you are. As I tend to get lost sometimes when I'm improvising, that's a big advantage.
Cheers! -Alastair
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Is anyone using it for live work... You did ask about live work Joden. Now I'm not arguing or anything, if you really see a need to have Biab active and live on a gig, fine but my question to you was not answered and that is do you change the song structure on a gig or do you simply hit play and let it go to the end? If you just let it play what's wrong with an MP3 or wave file? Just trying to understand why you think you need Biab server on a gig. You're not limited to published fakebooks on an iPad. You can use ForScore or other songbook apps and put anything you want in there. You could scratch out a simple cheat sheet in Word or Notepad, import it and FS will automatically convert it to pdf and of course you can use Biab to create the fakebook style chart too. Now, I don't use an iPad myself so I can't tell you if you can link an MP3 inside FS itself or how that works but I do know lots of people have a songfile and the chart linked so they come up at the same time. Bob
Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.
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