forScore, for iOS, announced a new version of their amazing music software for iPads. Some notable new features.
- Crop – Taking pictures with an iPad can be cumbersome, and getting perfectly aligned photos of pieces of paper is nearly impossible. That’s why we added a crop tool to forScore’s Darkroom. It lets you re-frame your photo after the fact to cut out everything except the page.
- Enhance – Framing is just one part of it, though. For the best results, you also need to account for lighting and other factors that can turn your perfectly legible sheet music into a muddy mess.
- De-skew – PDF files are ubiquitous, flexible, and well-supported across platforms. They can also vary wildly in quality, from pristine, digitally-created masters to terrible, crooked scans. We’ve received a lot of requests over the years to add a way to fix these files, and now we have.
- Setlists – For many users, setlists are the real workhorse of forScore. They’re flexible and essential to a lot of people, but they can also start to get out of hand if you create a lot of them. Some people upload and archive their setlists in the cloud, but with forScore 10 we set out to design a better way for people to organize and archive their setlists.
Some of these, like De-skew, should be done when you make the PDF using something like Adobe Acrobat. But I guess if you are taking pictures or perhaps scanning directly to the iPad, that is not an option.
I use forScore a little. The bulk of my gigging iPad usage is on my iPad 1 (original iPad) using unRealBook.
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