| Thanks so much for this information and the tips, David! I have a Canon printer, so I will have to check to see what the DPI is with which setting. Your info. will make it a lot easier for me. You have sure had to go to a lot of work to get the Hal Leonard Real Books easier to work with. I asked in the music store yesterday if they had the AirTurn products. They didn't. I may be able to get them online, though. I'll also search the web or PDFs of some of my music--great idea! Carlee Digitizing your own sheet music simply takes time and a scanner which can scan clearly. I use my Brother all-in-one-laser printer and scan at 300DPI in color and get great results. I could use 300DPI in B/W but my scanner only does 100DPI or 200DPI in b/w and the results aren't always that great. If you have a scanner which can scan 300DPI in b/w, that would be the best combination of resolution and color-depth to get reasonably sized files. And go searching the web for PDFs of music you already own -- sometimes it's worth purchasing the PDF format of a book you already own just to save time. The Hal Leonard Real Books, with around 400 songs in each, are available as PDF file purchases and it was so much easier to deal with them than to scan each page myself. The only problem was that Hal Leonard saw fit not to label the files in any sort of reasonable manner, so I loaded them onto my computer and have manually re-named them all in a logical manner (HLRBI [title] [page#].pdf) so they're easy to find in ForScore. Then I take advantage of ForScore's indexing capability to batch-edit all the songs from one of the Hal Leonard Real Books and enter "HL Real Book I" (or whatever volume number I'm working on) in the "Genre" field and then I can see only those songs instead of the several thousand music files I've got loaded in ForScore and it makes finding what I want a lot easier. Enjoy your Yamaha keyboard and making music with the iPad -- next you might want to get an iPad holder to go on a music stand or mic-stand. I've bought two, one from IKMultimedia and one through AirTurn. The one from IK you have to decide what orientation to keep the iPad in while using that holder and then assemble it. The one through AirTurn can swivel so it's a much better (and more expensive) alternative -- you can use it in landscape orientation when using the synthesizer apps or the composition apps (to better see all the tools) and then swivel it into portrait mode to read music from. Have Fun! -- David H. Bailey ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: | ||
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