TrevorR Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 As a stop gap you could take the individual pages and create a playlist to scroll through for each song. But it may still be a bit clunky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 12 hours ago, TrevorR said: Scan the A4 pages as a 4 page document rather than as separate files. OnSong will read it that way and treat it as one song you can scroll up and down through. Quite simple... I think I’ve found where I was going wrong. There is a toggle switch in the scanning app for choosing either JPG or PDF. It was set to JPG which is limited to one page. PDF obviously allows multiples. Thanks @TrevorR 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 @TrevorR - yes, that works a treat. I’ve just scanned a multi page PDF and imported it to OnSong and it’s all there in one file. Quick question and I’ll stop pestering you 😀. So now it’s in OnSong, the pages are stacked on top of each other instead of scrolling left to right, which is fine. If I get the BT200 and turn the page with that, I assume it instantly goes down to the next whole page or does it scroll down for as long as you have your foot on the switch? I’m hoping it’s the former cos I’m going to want the next bar in front of me fairly pronto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 Long time since I used PDFs but I’m 99.9% that it will move straight to the next page straight away. It does the same with OnSong format docs. One tap on the switch places the line below what’s visible at the top on the screen - just like “page turning”. With PDFs the pages are defined by the document on the OnSong format by what’s visible on screen. I’m sure that buried in the mode options somewhere there is a slow scroll or autocue type option but the mode I use is page up and down... You can check out the manual here... https://www.airturn.com/support/product-support/product-manuals/bt200manual —————————————— Here you go... Mode 2 is scroll up and down. Mode 3 is page up and down If you cue up a playlist of songs the switches take you up and down pages within the song. At the start of a song left/switch 1 takes you to the start of the previous song in the playlist. At the end of the song right/switch 2 takes you to the start of the next tune in the playlist. Easier to do than to type. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 Thanks @TrevorR - order going in tonight 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 I’ve had this happen to me before with Thomann, so I wasn’t overly surprised, but WTF are they thinking? 😂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: I’ve had this happen to me before with Thomann, so I wasn’t overly surprised, but WTF are they thinking? 😂 That made me smile remembering my HX Stomp arriving from Andertons. The shoebox sized manufacturer's packaging was delivered inside another box that must have been at least a cubic meter in size. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 22 minutes ago, Cato said: That made me smile remembering my HX Stomp arriving from Andertons. The shoebox sized manufacturer's packaging was delivered inside another box that must have been at least a cubic meter in size. Yes, Anderson’s did that to me with my Line 6 Relay G75. The box was astonishingly large. I’ve just checked the other much larger box that arrived with the B200S-2 and it’s the wrong product entirely. Someone was having a bad day at Thomann HQ last week I reckon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles1 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Also looking for a similar program. I didn’t even wonder what such could be O_o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 Well, I charged it last night and hooked it up to my iPad this morning. Connection took seconds and it works like a dream. As previously mentioned in the thread, you can configure what the buttons do very easily. It comes set as turn page left and right with the two switches. The page flip is almost instant. Not only that, but paging right scrolls down if it’s more than can fit on the screen at the start and a further click right then moves over to the next song when it reaches the end of the tune. The left button undoes whatever you’ve done with the right. This is using On Song by the way. I’m not sure what other programs do. Very impressed by the build. Looks bomb proof and is very dinky. Much smaller than I expected, but functionality is not compromised by it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Great isn’t it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 What's wrong with pen and paper? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 37 minutes ago, chris_b said: What's wrong with pen and paper? The limitations of them when both of your hands are busy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 38 minutes ago, chris_b said: What's wrong with pen and paper? Not a single thing! PS that’s just my old church music folder. The covers band had two folders that size of songs our BL might decide to throw into a set with no notice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 Most of mine do start life on paper, but as you’ve evidenced, a lot of songs multiplied by a few bands and it easily gets out of hand. I don’t play with some of the bands I dep for regularly enough to remember even half of it, so there has to be an accessible version readily to hand. Songs stretching to two or more pages just complicates things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrixn1 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 I play in a 12-piece band and each instrument has a pad of about 325 arranged, multi-page, printed charts - so that's nearly 4000 charts! Myself, I know most of the charts off by heart - but they still all always come along in the van for any deps etc. We literally have a large wheeled trunk flightcase just for charts... And yes, we're in the process of moving to tablets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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