How widespread is iPad use?

[Mary Ann]

I don't get what you would need wifi for if the music is on the tablet. What concept am I missing?
I don't have wifi in my house. I have a wired internet connection and my phone is a phone and doesn't go online.

[Dopey]

I don't get what you would need wifi for if the music is on the tablet. What concept am I missing?
I don't have wifi in my house. I have a wired internet connection and my phone is a phone and doesn't go online.

It is for loading music 'onto' the tablet that you'd want some sort of connection - Most commonly using wifi.

As mentioned before if you did not have wifi, you can get an adapter that let's you connected with your wired connection.

Depending on the tablet you 'may' be able to load using USB and a computer, but this be more advanced/complex than how folks would normally do it.

Once the music is on the tablet, you are correct. You do not need wifi.

[1 Ton Tommy]

I'm leaning toward iPad for non-symphony gigs. I already have the tablet, my personal fake book has gotten too heavy for a portable stand and I'm curious about the new techie way of doing things.

One advantage I anticipate is that a tablet would eliminate the need for a stand light. There are cords running all over the place to trip on, circuit breakers to trip, and we had one light explode mid-performance last winter. The horn player did manage to get it off stage before anything bad happened but then there was a scramble to get her another light.

Problem is, the logistics of getting all that sheet music onto a tablet; some of it's rented, some borrowed from other orchestras, some from our library, some from IMSLP and some is arrangements the director cooked up.

[tadawson]

Another loading option (well, for non Apple devices) if it has an SD card, you can put that into another device and add content that way. More work, but requires zero networking to the tablet.

[ronr]

Problem is, the logistics of getting all that sheet music onto a tablet; some of it's rented, some borrowed from other orchestras, some from our library, some from IMSLP and some is arrangements the director cooked up.

When I started using an iPad I loaded my whole big band book, which took forever. Now I just load music as I need it.

[LibraryMark]

I use a 1st gen Ipad 12.9" with forScore. Love it. It was cheap and does everything I need. The battery is getting iffy but I just plug it into a power bank and I can use it as long as I need to. I sub in a British-style brass band on occasion and they distribute all of there music in PDF form online, and it is the responsibility of each member to either print it or put it on a tablet and there are many tablet users in the band. The tuba section is all tablet. The community concert band that I play in has a few of us with tablets, but not many. Maybe 10 out of a 70-piece band. The outdoor summer band that I play in won't let us take our folders home (one rehearsal - one concert) so I have to use paper for that and I hate it. Wind is a major concern.

[russiantuba]

I don't get what you would need wifi for if the music is on the tablet. What concept am I missing?
I don't have wifi in my house. I have a wired internet connection and my phone is a phone and doesn't go online.

I used Dropbox since the gig leader keeps adding charts.

The WiFi thing came into play was when the music librarian mentioned that orchestras could go pure digital, but they would have to use special programs that would allow particular notations and have “expirations” which I would assume would need WiFi from a cloud.

Kind of related: one of the piano grad students at one of my schools went to Manhattan School of Music (or one of the NYC schools), and said on multiple occasions publishing company “police” came by practice rooms ensuring students were reading off originals.

[Yadent]

Had an outdoor concert today in 90+ degree heat, direct sun exposure. Trumpet player next to me was using a tablet. 2 minutes before the concert start, his tablet overheated and shut down. Fortunately, there was an extra folder with most of his parts available. Funny thing, we had a discussion about ipad/tablet usage a few minutes previous to his shutdown. I was relating to him this TubaForum discussion. Weird......

[Mary Ann]

Had an outdoor concert today in 90+ degree heat, direct sun exposure. Trumpet player next to me was using a tablet. 2 minutes before the concert start, his tablet overheated and shut down. Fortunately, there was an extra folder with most of his parts available. Funny thing, we had a discussion about ipad/tablet usage a few minutes previous to his shutdown. I was relating to him this TubaForum discussion. Weird......

Well then you are clearly clairvoyant as to future happenings. !!! And I suppose the paper equivalent is high winds suddenly spring up out of nowhere and blowing the music all over creation. Happened at the brass band concert actually -- guy on my right did not have adequate clamping of his music and it ended up on the stage floor under the bass trombone's chair.

[LargeTuba]

iPad use will eventually become necessary I think with the next generation of pros. In music school nowadays an iPad use is prolific.

[tadawson]

iPad use will eventually become necessary I think with the next generation of pros. In music school nowadays an iPad use is prolific.

Tablet yes, specifically iPad, well, no way in h*ll in my world . . .

[LargeTuba]

iPad use will eventually become necessary I think with the next generation of pros. In music school nowadays an iPad use is prolific.

Tablet yes, specifically iPad, well, no way in h*ll in my world . . .

Yes, tablet.

iPad has been sort of genericized.