3 years and still umable to use ipad or itunes

[ekurburski]

I must be a total idiot.  I bought an ipad 2
3
a couple of years ago and still can't get it to do much of anything.  Trying to download songbook+ from itunes.  Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[Fred Smith]

I must be a total idiot.  I bought an ipad 2
3
a couple of years ago and still can't get it to do much of anything.  Trying to download songbook+ from itunes.  Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The first thing you do is watch my video (link in signature). Then post back with specific problems. Tough to provide help for "can't get it to do much of anything".

Fred

[ekurburski]

Fred,
I have watched you songbook video 10 times if I've watched it once.  My main problem is I can't figure out how to d/l from itunes..  guys at Baum have sent me a derect link that I will try later today from the office. (my ipad is at the office).  After a lot of consideration I think the songbook app is the way to go.  If I can figure it out it will mean I wil finally get some return on my investment in the ipad after all of these years!

I am still hacking away at the problem.

Earl

[SeaGtGruff]

Earl, if you're thinking of using the Songbook app for remotely selecting Registrations for songs, you should be warned that it can do that only on Yamaha's Tyros and Genos keyboards, as well as some of their synthesizers, because the other Yamaha models don't support the selection of Registrations via Bank Select and Program Change MIDI messages. You can select individual Voices that way, but not entire Registrations.

[Fred Smith]

Earl, if you're thinking of using the Songbook app for remotely selecting Registrations for songs, you should be warned that it can do that only on Yamaha's Tyros and Genos keyboards, as well as some of their synthesizers, because the other Yamaha models don't support the selection of Registrations via Bank Select and Program Change MIDI messages. You can select individual Voices that way, but not entire Registrations.

Michael,

You are correct if you want SongBook to control the keyboard. However, if you do it like I do — have the keyboard control Sonngbook — it works with any keyboard that can play a midi file.

Bottom line, which people wouldn't get from your message, is that SongBook works everywhere.

Fred

[SeaGtGruff]

That's good to know, Fred! And as I said, you can still use Songbook to change Voices on a PSR model, just not entire Registrations. By the way, dO you know if the Voice selection can include User Voices?

[ekurburski]

OK an hour on the phone with Apple support & I still do not have songbook.    They think I will be able to d/l it as soon as I upgrade os.  I am thinking about moving up to a Korg PA4x in the future so I figured I would use the songbook app as it works on both Yam and Korg.  It's funny.  Couple of years ago I took a course on midi comp and we used itunes to convert midi to wav or mp3,  had a rough time figuring that out then to.

[SeaGtGruff]

By the way, dO you know if the Voice selection can include User Voices?

I just installed SongBook+ on my iPad2, and the answer to my question is yes, SongBook+ can select a User Voice when it opens a song, as long as the User Voice is saved as a simple Type 0 MIDI file that selects a particular Bank and Program, and sets any other parameters as desired-- i.e., voice files that include new voice samples within the file can't be used. I assume the voice file would need to be copied to the iPad and given the same name as the PDF song but with "_open.mid" at the end, such as "MySong.pdf" and "MySong_open.mid."

[Bill]

Hi Earl

Apple does not use ITUNES for downloading APPs anymore.  They now have a dedicated APP STORE for downloading.

Bill

[whataguy]

At last, I thought I was alone in this world. I finally had to stop messing with all the crap and went back to just playing using the Musicfunder. The MF plus the folks on this forum provide tons of info. Soon I'm gonna read the manual on my 4-year-old T5, gettin' close. Until then I got Joe, Fred and Roger etal, who needs anything more? Don in MI