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Spammer's Bin / andorid vs apple for musicians
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Date: Fri, Jul 13 2012 07:33:25
i have an ipad 2, but have been considering an android tablet. which is better for musicians? ill mainly need the be able to read sheet music and some minor composition stuff.
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Date: Fri, Jul 13 2012 07:55:06
Just have your sheet music as a PDF and open it with whatever program the tablet would use. On Android it would be Adobe Reader, I'm not sure if they have an app for that on iOS. Also, are you getting a tablet just to read your music? That's pretty dumb.
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Date: Fri, Jul 13 2012 08:01:32
^What he said.
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Date: Fri, Jul 13 2012 09:57:33
seems like the majority of musicians use apple products
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Date: Fri, Jul 13 2012 11:13:21
But it's a personal choice, because these guys have the money to freely decide what suits them more.
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Date: Mon, Jul 16 2012 01:20:10
My uni lecture notes are in PDF format, and they work fine on my laptop. But some guys use an iPad, and they work fine too, except that it's much more portable and it's easier to adjust the magnification and move it around. Not sure what program though, can help you ask around.
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Date: Mon, Jul 16 2012 01:32:39
I don't see why you'd get another tablet when you already have an iPad
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Date: Mon, Jul 16 2012 01:43:11
^very true. Honestly iBooks and Adobe Reader is enough for reading pdf files.
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Date: Mon, Jul 16 2012 01:56:54
iPad uses iBooks for PDFs, but there are apps on the App Store that read PDFs also. Android uses Kindle for PDFs, but, again, there are apps on the Android Market that will read PDFs (I assume, i've never checked).
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Date: Mon, Jul 16 2012 16:24:59
for reading sheet musics u want as large a screen as size afaik, the largest tablet is ipad. you could also try one of those laptops that flip upside down screen. second, you want fast rendering time, this is why kindle sucks, ipad is ok but you want low quality scans to render even faster use a pdf software like goodreader