MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4), iPad user
This is what I did.. I made my own.. and it cost $20... and its actually a LOT better than the iKlip.. http://chrisburke.ca/2012/02/03/ipad-on-stage-setup-w-onsong/
I'm marketing a magnetic one that will be ready end of April. No clips or starps to fuss with and it attaches to any mic stand. On-Line price will be $40-ish. www.mystrumbuddy.com
I really like that one TJur3... great job on it.
If you're looking for anyone to test the product and do a review of it.. drop me a message. My blog gets about 300 views a day, and about 80% of that is musicians, church worship leaders, and other people who are use iOS devices in their day to day work.
Yes, I host a yahoo group called SongbookPlus for musicians using Songbook+ for lyrics on the iPad.
Log on to my group and make your announcement about any iPad mount in the future. Thanks
Anyone know of an iPad holder that would attach to the top of the music stand desk, not the vertical pole?
I'm going to chalk this up to terminology difference.. I've been a musican for 25 years, and I have no clue what you're talking about when you say "music stand desk".. i know music stand.. and I know desk.. I also know of a LOT of iPad hold.. I own 3.. but what is a music stand desk??
cburke5: all the holders I've seen attach in some way to the pole of the music stand. I'd like one that can be clipped on (attached) to the top edge of the desk part (so it's above any music you have on the stand).
ahh.. can't say I've seen any... mostly because the purpose of using the iPad as as music stand is so you can do away with sheet music..
don't know if anyone in here is a church worship leader (i know lots are using iPads in worship) but I've got a 5 part series on my blog on using iOS in worship if anyone is interested in checking it out.. http://chrisburke.ca/category/ios-worship-1/
Yes, that's my position. We're a ways off from doing away with sheet music but my iPad is a helpful "teleprompter" for me when sharing scripture, etc. between songs. Trying to find the most helpful and least obtrusive way to mount it. Right now I have it on a separate mic stand (sans mic!) next to my music stand.
I've been 100% iPad for 2 years now.. will never no back to sheet music.. check my series I posted.. I actually use 2 iPads now.. I use an iPad mini for my OnSong sheets and an iPad 2 for my loops (running through loopy HD.. going to be doing another iOS series very soon.. just trying to decide which apps to write about, as I don't want to duplicate what I've done, OR things that others are already writing about.. I use a yorkville clip for my iPad 2.. and iK multimedia is releasing an iPad mini stand really soon that they are sending me to review soon.. they send me a bunch of products to review for them.. I'll be reviewing their blueboard soon too.. the first ever buetooth midiboard.. it's going to be awesome!!
getting ready to release a review of the Rode smartav (a mic made just for the iPhone) and the iRig stomp (a stomp box pass through made for the iPad (but also for your pedalboard) it's pretty awesome... they'll all be coming up on my site in the next month or 2..
I enjoyed your blog. Want to check out that SongSuggest app. Mostly a matter of money here. If it were just me, no problem but with a large band onstage with me, costs to make the shift aren't minor. We use MediaShout software for projection and that interfaces with SamePage, which was a paperless music system that came out a good while ago. Don't know if the cost ever came down but it would have cost $10k for us to switch to it!
it doesn't have to be expensive.. my team didn't all do iPads.. in fact I was the only one with an iPad.. but we all had digital music.. what i did was I used the VGA out cable ($30) from apple, plugged into my iPad and then pluged in a VGA splitter/amplifier box which allowed me to plug multiple monitors into a single source (but all the same image.. and then we had about 4 19" flat screen tv's on the stage, so everyone could see the music. the music they all saw was just a mirror image from my iPad.. so every time I turned a page with my bluetooth pedal, their pages turned.. it actually worked really well, because it allowed me to know that we all had exactly the same music.. with worship music, there are so many different versions of each song out there... but when we are all mirroring from 1 iPad, you all have the same chords, same key, same words, same arrangement.. our synth player played from chords too, so it worked out perfecetly..
for projection we used OpenSong (free open source and cross platform) but I also have ProPresenter (about $400) and it has allows you to use an iPad as a stage display, so the projection team can (for example) send a message just to the worship team and it will just display on the iPad, not the display screens for the whole congregation to see.. none of this $10k display stuff..
Certainly sounds like you've taken a very creative approach! MediaShout now has a stage display function, though we're using it to feed TVs for a special seating section for folks with eye/contrast issues. Thanks for the conversation. I'm going to check out your blog more carefully this weekend. God bless!
Sal
yea, I've always been into finding ways to use tech in worship (though not wanting to distract) but also not wanting to break the bank... and it worked great.
There's lots of great stuff on my site about using the iPad in worship, even beyond that series.. enjoy!
Come to think of it.. My clip would probably mount the way you want it to.
iPad holder that mounts to mic stand
