tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46876108727849782252012-02-16T20:00:32.867-08:00The Go-To Gig Tool. <p> <ul> <li>Search by song title or composer to find what to play in seconds.</li> <li>Support for chord charts that transpose.</li> <li>Turn pages wirelessly with an iPhone/iPod Touch or Pedal.</li> <li>Quick and efficient set list builder...Search, Display, Add, Sort and Copy.</li> <li>Bookmark Support - Create, Import, Add and Edit.</li> </ul> </p>BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-48990719722348010592011-12-31T13:03:00.000-08:002011-12-31T13:03:22.757-08:00

Ah, the end of the year and it's been a pretty good one. A lot of features have been added to iGigBook as well as a number of performance improvements. The capability to transpose chord charts really rounds out the app by providing quick access to melody along with quick access to the transposed harmony. Keep your eyes peeled and your ear to the ground during 2012 for more great features.

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After spinning out version 1.57 of iGigBook an update that added the ability to make a copy of a set list and that we made performance enhancements to and fixed some iOS5 specific bugs something very interesting happened. It seems a large number of people but not everyone, had a problem with the update, meaning they performed the update and the app would crash when they tried to launch it.

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Over a thousand chord charts available here, can now be accessed directly from iGigBook as a Dynamic Book, which means iGigBook has an index that allows you to access any of the charts on the site and also allows you to transpose them to any key. This is a great addition to the app for those situations where you're working with a singer that needs to perform a tune in a particular key and just

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October has proven to be a busy month for development on iGigBook with a grand total of 5 versions, each adding some really cool functionality to the app. Version 1.51 exchanged the not so useful dimmer feature for a more useful quick view jump feature on the PDF page view. The quick jump allows you to jump to any of the 6 different iGigBook views which means you can swtch between up to 5

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-41880028879702054392011-06-21T21:51:00.000-07:002011-06-21T21:51:03.667-07:00

I'm not sure what's going on in Italy, but there are two, one star reviews in the Italian iTunes store and both claim that iGigBook doesn't work, one claims that it is a ripoff and the other says don't buy it. Non funziona é un furto!!!!! Mi Sembra un pacco, non funziona! Non compratelo! I don't know who these folks are, but I do know that version 1.43 of iGigBook is pretty solid and works

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The iPad can be a great gig tool if you have the right app. The right app is one that can enable you to realize the full potential of all of the real books and fake books that you own in PDF format.  There are lots of apps that allow you to store your PDF library on an iPad but you still need to check each book to find the song that you want.  With these apps, your library, though portable, still

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Version 1.43 of iGigBook adds a "Purge" button to the bookmark menu enabling you to bulk remove bookmarks that were imported or created. We've also added an "Import" button so that you can decide if you want to pull in the bookmarks from the PDF file that you are viewing.

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Version 1.42 of iGigBook address the lack of sharpness when you pinch to zoom a PDF page. We've also added the capability to rename items in your set list so that you can potentially have multiple copies of the same song n a set under different names. In future releases we will be enhancing the bookmark import from PDF feature to enable users to create a book index from the bookmarks associated

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Keeping with the concept of quick and easy access to your sheet music, version 1.41 will add the ability to import bookmarks from any PDF that contains them. This feature gives you yet another option of creating bookmarks for quick access to songs within a book. The bookmark list will also have a search bar which we have found you will need if you have a copy of the real book with all 444 songs

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-17914232912035446612011-03-31T06:01:00.000-07:002011-03-31T06:01:07.821-07:00

I'm currently working on a new version of iGigBook which will make some tweaks to the UI. The My Scores section will be a separate view and tab interface will sport a set of new icons. iGigBook Pager will be able to control(turn pages) on multiple iPads at the same time, which gives rise to some very interesting performance scenarios. Expect to see this capability expanded to provide more

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-13376304632353696362011-02-20T21:47:00.000-08:002011-02-21T07:45:59.685-08:00

It seems my last blog post has gotten the writer of the "Technology in Music Education" a little peeved, so much so that in my opinion he's attempting to distort what was said or better yet misinterpret what was actually written. I wish he had commented to the original post...In any event I'll quote some of the points made and respond to them here: 2) During 2010, the developer of iGigBook

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My latest big band rehearsal sessions has reminded me of a feature that I needed while doing a theater gig with iGigBook this summer. The composer, Joseph Vernon Banks, usually uses a segment of the last song as the music that we vamp out on and that segment is usually a couple of pages back. Apps like ForScore and UnRealbook allow you create "jump" points that you press to take you to a

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This is a recent 1 star review in the iTunes App Store for iGigBook Mobile. This app is overpriced and underperforms. No PDF music can be found on iTunes. Very unfriendly. First off, I'm not sure if this user is a member of the audience that iGigBook Mobile is targeted towards. This app runs on a iPhone or an iPod, there's going to be a limit to what you're going to able to do with it, compared

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-14433546864077164912011-01-15T18:55:00.001-08:002011-01-15T19:07:26.964-08:00

Here's a short 6 minute video illustrating how easy and quick it is to build a set list of 10 songs from multiple books. Looks simple enough, right? Try this excercise using any similar app currently available to get a real appreciation of what's happening here. There are apps out there that claim that they have the best/newest/revolutionary organizational system. Are they able to allow you

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-50621065558687660332011-01-10T11:06:00.000-08:002011-01-10T11:08:10.141-08:00

Thank you for submitting iGBMobile to the App Store. We’ve completed the review of your app, however, we cannot post this version to the App Store because it is using a private API, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines : 2.5 Apps that use non-public APIs will be rejected We have included additional details below to help explain the issue and hope you'll consider

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Version 1.33 of iGigBook and iGigBook Mobile will enable pinch zoom in the PDF view. This is particularly useful for users of iGigBook Mobile which runs on the iPhone/iPod Touch. Also in this version is a fix for scores not being recognized in the "** My Scores **" section when added via iTunes with the app running or in a suspened state. The point size of all of the items in the list of all

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-61327281315364636282010-12-25T17:33:00.000-08:002010-12-25T17:37:24.537-08:00

I play at a small church in The "Boogie Down" Bronx on Sundays and just recently acquired a ton of charts. Now I can take these 100 or so PDF's and drop them in my folder using iTunes for iGigBook and they'll show up in the "** My Scores **" section nicely alphabetized with the ability to search them, and that would be okay. I'll have easy access, but I want them to be in their own Gospel

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-58010923275385370202010-12-21T12:48:00.000-08:002010-12-21T12:48:43.632-08:00

iGBIndex™ is a fake book and real book index for your iPhone. With over 40 books indexed it's fairly comprehensive and the best part? It's less than a buck! iGBIndex™

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The set list sharing feature of iGigBook and iGBMobile allows you to share your set list via email with your band members.  It is unique in that it can also create a "gig book" PDF consisting of the tunes in your set list.  This unique feature enables people that don't own an iPad or iPhone to benefit from the feature because they can simply print the PDF.  It also benefits people that have other

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-91886084410041438352010-12-10T18:38:00.000-08:002010-12-10T18:38:13.628-08:00

After a long 9 days version 1.31 of iGigBook has been approved and is now available for sale.  Existing users can take advantage of external monitor support that displays two pages up and our new support for unindexed books which includes a cool new bookmark feature for those books.

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This version adds the following:External monitor support, so that you can connect your iPad to an external monitor via the apple VGA dongle and view two pages side by side.Enhanced support for non-indexed books and scores. iGigBook will now have a new Book View item called "** My Scores **" which will contain PDFs not recognized as one of the books that are indexed. Books or scores in this list

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-81944607130743171402010-11-27T06:28:00.000-08:002010-11-27T06:33:15.631-08:00

Yes folks, iGigBook will be supporting an external monitor for those of you that have the VGA dongle. You will see pages two up on the external monitor, while the iPad shows only one. Perfect for those two page songs in addition to being larger and easier to read. When you combine this capability with iGBPager, you have a basic presentation system that allows you to walk around a room and turn

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This update adds some tweaks to the app so that it can operate correctly in the new multitasking environment of the iPad. Currently working on showing charts two up in landscape mode and easier ways to accommodate individual sheets/packets of music. I'm finding that a number of purchasers do not have any of the books indexed, but want the application to do stuff with their stuff. No problem,

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Good news for all of you iGigBook users that also own iPhones or iPod Touches, the wireless page turner iGBPager is now available for download from the iTunes Apps Store and the it's FREE! Amaze you friends as you wireless turn pages from across the room or use it seriouly as I did during a reading gig this summer. I had my iPod Touch in my sock, yes my sock, and it helped a great deal with the

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-5415249989079017192010-11-06T11:49:00.001-07:002010-11-06T11:50:37.849-07:00

They say necessity is the mother of invention and this have never been truer with respect to the creation of this application. I own a large number of physical fake books, all of the bootleg real books, all of the New Real Books and a host of others. The challenge for me has always been, given a list of tunes I may do at a gig, getting all of the music together in one place so that I can use it

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With iGBPager loaded onto your iPhone/iPod Touch you can wirelessly signal page turns for songs in your iGigBook set list. You can advance by a single page by pressing a button or by motion detection. Using motion detection you can advance by a single page by waving your hand, moving your foot or any other means of moving the device. The movement required is not as severe as shaking and can be

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Version 1.15 of iGigBook and iGigBook Mobile adds the ability to email your set list to your band members and you have the option of including a PDF attachment containing the songs in your set list. This feature allows those that do not have an iPad to simply print the music or "gig book" that you supply as a PDF.

BassPlayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03096266827473228763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4687610872784978225.post-68290933615419380602010-10-29T02:35:00.000-07:002010-11-06T11:40:57.638-07:00

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