![]() ![]() Hi I think some of the functions might have been updated since you last tested Setlist Helper. on stage, things should just run with as little handling as possible.īut again - to each their own I like the iPad apps, and I have built myself a little converter tool that will “translate” my LivePrompter files to OnSong’s format (OnSong uses some tags differently, plus it can’t deal with some of my custom extensions), so I can have my song files on my iPad as well. But that’s really mostly by design: LP separates preparation and gig use - during a gig, I don’t want to fiddle with my lyrics app everything should be set up in advance. If you want to scale the font size for a specific song: insert a tag into the song file and save it. The disadvantage of LP is that it will not let you do as much on-the-fly as some of the Android/iOS apps - if you want to transpose a song or use a capo setting, you’ll have to do that within the song file in advance. LP allows you custom comments and custom transpose for individual band members, so that a full band can share the same song files and still have individual instructions, and even individual capo settings per musician Conversely, LP will send bank select / program change commands to Cantabile so that it automatically loads the correct song in the setlist when opening it in LP LP is fully linked to Cantabile - I can send commands from Cantabile to start/pause scrolling, to step to the next song or go to the top of the song. I like configurable individual colors for text, chords, headings and comments to make things easy to digest on stage LP has easy MIDI controllable buttons to quickly advance or go back by a half-page (customizable length) - a life-saver when your drummer is nervous and plays at 120% original tempo… And it even gives you the option to insert a “pause” tag in your song - for those solos when you don’t know when the guitarist will finally get tired of soloing… LP will then stop scrolling at that point and wait for you to press the “universal pedal” to continue. LP will only start scrolling once the “scroll-cursor” has reached a point around one third below the top of the screen - the “screen focus” point (of course customizable). Given that I usually start scrolling during the pre-count, this means that the top of the song is always cut off. This means that the first lines of the song disappear off the screen almost immediately. ![]() When you “start” a song in Setlist Helper, it starts scrolling immediately (at least it did in the version I tested). You can run a full set list with a single MIDI pedal without ever having to touch the screen. For LP, you can define a “universal key” (also via MIDI pedal) that, depending on LP’s status, will start, pause and continue scrolling, and - once the song has reached the bottom - advance to the next song. If you want to operate most apps via foot pedals, you need multiple pedals (start scrolling, pause/unpause, next song,…). ![]() If you don’t use these tags, you can at least simply enter the song duration in the song file and LP will calculate itself what scrolling speed it needs so that you reach the end of the lyrics by the time the song ends. That’s why I implemented special tags in LP that will allow you to define precisely where the “current line” on screen should be at what time. Setlist Helper requires you to set the speed per song in the app (not in the song file) you can only set an average speed for the whole song - and you don’t really know what “Speed 8” means - will this scroll through the song in the right time? In my songs, I like a varying scroll speed (a guitar solo that has only one line will take the same time as a wordy chorus with twenty lines. I honestly cannot think how it could be made any easier And Windows tablets / convertibles are cheap (you can get a pretty useful convertible for around €110), so it may actually be worth getting a dedicated windows tablet just for lyrics. That’s why I built LivePrompter - it’s free, but Windows only, so if you want to run it on your Cantabile PC, give it a run. I’ve tried OnSong, SetlistHelper and LinkeSOFT, but found them somewhat lacking for live performance - too much effort operating the software, and always missing a feature that I wanted. ![]() So no importing of docx or PDF files - if you want that, you’ll need something like Mobile Sheets. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see,Ī band of angels comin’ after me, Actually, there are TWO SongBook apps: one by LinkeSOFT and one by BauM software.Īll of them use the ChordPro format, which is essentially a text file with special commands for chords, comments and other metadata: # A simple ChordPro song. On the iPad, the three main candidates would be OnSong, SetlistHelper and SongBook. ![]()
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