[SteveB]

I live in the Android world and my wife is an Apple person.  We are both musicians, and she has been using ForScore for several years before I joined the tablet community and started using MS.

Recently I started showing her some of the things that MS does that ForScore doesn't do.  

Specifically:

1) Scrolling pages with a finger touch

2) Turning half pages in ForScore is a disaster, you have to see it to believe how bad it is.  My wife was struggling with that and fell in love with how MS handles half pages turns

3) I have linked audio files to some of my songs, and that was what finally convinced her to try MS.  She has a lot of Music Minus One files and she is thrilled that she can load them all to MS.

So, she purchased the IOS version of MS and couldn't be happier.

One more victory for MS !!

[Zubersoft]

I'm glad MobileSheets is working well for your wife! Thanks so much for sharing.

Mike

[BikerGuy]

I’m glad for you that you’ve found an app that works for both you and your wife. I will say that the half page turn in ForScore works flawlessly for me, I’m not sure how such a simple function could be “disaster” so I’m curious what you found so objectionable about it. Audio can be linked to any ForScore file, how does that work differently, and assumedy better, than ForScore? I’m willing to learn!

[kohanmike]

For a short while I used MobileSheets Pro for Android and for Windows Tablet before the iPad Pro 12.9" came out. Loved MobileSheets but hated both Android and Windows tablets OS. I'm an Apple Fanboy since 1986 and when the iPad Pro 12.9" came out, I tested it, finding that it with an Apple Pencil, it ran circles around the other tablets. 

MobileSheets was not available for iOS yet, so I went with forScore, which worked much better than OnSong, but not as good as MobileSheets. Last week a member of my uke group decided to go to an iPad Pro 12.9" and asked me to help him get started. I knew that he was a member of a couple other uke groups, and because forScore does not support autonomous libraries and OnSong was way too convoluted, and saw that there is an iOS version of MobileSheets, I checked it out. Didn't take me long to decide to switch to it myself. After getting comfortable with it via great support from Mike Zuber, I setup my friend.

[SteveB]

I’m glad for you that you’ve found an app that works for both you and your wife. I will say that the half page turn in ForScore works flawlessly for me, I’m not sure how such a simple function could be “disaster” so I’m curious what you found so objectionable about it. Audio can be linked to any ForScore file, how does that work differently, and assumedy better, than ForScore? I’m willing to learn!

BikerGuy,

Sorry I didn't see this until now.

So far as I'm aware, after asking 3 ForScore users, the FS 1/2 page function works as so:

Let's say you are reading a 2 page piece of music and there is a run that ends on page 1 and continues on page 2.  You would like to do a 1/2 page turn so that when you are reading the run at the end of page 1 you can seamlessly move on to the continuation of that run on page 2 without having to synchronize a page turn at the precisely correct instant.

So you press the foot pedal for a 1/2 page turn and the top of page 2 overlays on top of the beginning of page 1.  In other words, the top half of page 2 is at the top of your tablet screen and the bottom half of page 1 is on the bottom half to the tablet screen.

Aside from not being intuitive in any way, that requires that when you end page 1 your eyes have to jump up to the top of the tablet to read the beginning of page 2.

Why ???

Again I ask, what is the sense in requiring the musician to jump from the bottom of the tablet screen to the top of the tablet screen while trying to make the musical passage sound connected ?

It makes so much more sense to simply scroll page 1 and page 2 up 1/2 page so that your eyes to simply continue reading left to right as you move from page 1 to page 2.

For each of the ForScore users that I asked about the 1/2 page turn functionality of FS, they were in awe of how the 1/2 page turn worked in MS, and readily agreed that it makes so much more sense.

[itsme]

I assume what you might want to use instead of half page turning is a combination of Display Mode "Vertical Scrolling" and Page Scaling Mode "Fit Width"
see https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...-8049.html and https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/f...-7059.html

@Mike: a possible improvement would be if I could use the half page turn position that exists for Display Mode "Half Page" also for vertical scrolling, instead of "Scroll Amount"

[BikerGuy]

I’m glad for you that you’ve found an app that works for both you and your wife. I will say that the half page turn in ForScore works flawlessly for me, I’m not sure how such a simple function could be “disaster” so I’m curious what you found so objectionable about it. Audio can be linked to any ForScore file, how does that work differently, and assumedy better, than ForScore? I’m willing to learn!

BikerGuy,

Sorry I didn't see this until now.

So far as I'm aware, after asking 3 ForScore users, the FS 1/2 page function works as so:

Let's say you are reading a 2 page piece of music and there is a run that ends on page 1 and continues on page 2.  You would like to do a 1/2 page turn so that when you are reading the run at the end of page 1 you can seamlessly move on to the continuation of that run on page 2 without having to synchronize a page turn at the precisely correct instant.

So you press the foot pedal for a 1/2 page turn and the top of page 2 overlays on top of the beginning of page 1.  In other words, the top half of page 2 is at the top of your tablet screen and the bottom half of page 1 is on the bottom half to the tablet screen.

Aside from not being intuitive in any way, that requires that when you end page 1 your eyes have to jump up to the top of the tablet to read the beginning of page 2.

Why ???

Again I ask, what is the sense in requiring the musician to jump from the bottom of the tablet screen to the top of the tablet screen while trying to make the musical passage sound connected ?

It makes so much more sense to simply scroll page 1 and page 2 up 1/2 page so that your eyes to simply continue reading left to right as you move from page 1 to page 2.

For each of the ForScore users that I asked about the 1/2 page turn functionality of FS, they were in awe of how the 1/2 page turn worked in MS, and readily agreed that it makes so much more sense.

I suppose it’s really to each their own. To me moving my eyes from the bottom of one page to the top of the next is exactly the same action as reading music on paper, so it feels entirely intuitive. Granted I’ve never tried the method you describe.