{"id":538,"date":"2010-10-16T15:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T09:41:51","slug":"my-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"My iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I already mention that I love the iPad? A great gadget, especially for a musician. I&#8217;ve copied PDFs of all my Real Books and other sheet music to the iPad, so I don&#8217;t need to bring tons of books to rehearsals or gigs anymore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ipad1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But much more convinient and versatile than the Real Book PDFs is Massimo Biolcati&#8217;s iPhone App <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irealbook.net\" target=\"_blank\">iRealBook<\/a> (which I already have recommended here before). It has been updated recently to an universal app, so it now makes use of the full screen size of the iPad. I prefer the landscape view over the portrait view, because you always have the song list handy on the left side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ipad2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Making good things even better isn&#8217;t easy. But with <a href=\"http:\/\/irealbook.net\/page2\/page2.html\" target=\"_blank\">version 3.0<\/a>, iRealBook has got a player feature, which I really like. The player creates surprisingly good play along accompaniments for all the library songs (more than 900) and properly formatted user created songs in iRealBook. Don&#8217;t expect a really natural sounding band \u2013 but compared to my old Band-in-a-Box software, the \u201ciRealBook Band\u201d really swings and the instruments sound less artificial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ipad3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I already mention that I love the iPad? A great gadget, especially for a musician. I&#8217;ve copied PDFs of all my Real Books and other sheet music to the iPad, so I don&#8217;t need to bring tons of books to rehearsals or gigs anymore. But much more convinient and versatile than the Real Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}