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anyone using "samepage" music stands/monitors?
Chris Harwood:
Title says it all. Cat 5 cabling, music AND virtual monitor mixer on a touch screen music stand. Many other features. Was looking at Aviom for a new church install, but this has sooo many more useful features.
But, what's like? Any good?
Jonathan Johnson:
I'll save you the trouble: http://www.samepagemusic.com/
Arnold B. Krueger:
Chris Harwood wrote on Mon, 03 January 2011 01:34
Title says it all. Cat 5 cabling, music AND virtual monitor mixer on a touch screen music stand. Many other features. Was looking at Aviom for a new church install, but this has sooo many more useful features.
But, what's like? Any good?
It looks great on paper. We just invested in Aviom, and I am now having second thoughts, based on this.
The basic idea seems to be to replace the Aviom musician's controllers @ $700 with some tablet PCs @ $1000 and get a ton more useful function.
If this pass at these ideas does not make it, I predict that people will try it again and again until they do make it.
I know how much time gets spent shuffling sheet music around my church, and anything that cuts that significantly would be a very good thing. The mixer is just cream. Very valuable cream,b ut just cream.
I wonder if this would faciliate projecting full musical scores for congregatoinal singing. That requirement has been wandering around our church for over a decade!
Somebody gests to be the pioneer!
Thomas Harkin:
Chris Harwood wrote on Sun, 02 January 2011 19:34
Title says it all. Cat 5 cabling, music AND virtual monitor mixer on a touch screen music stand. Many other features. Was looking at Aviom for a new church install, but this has sooo many more useful features.
But, what's like? Any good?
I know nothing about it, but would like to know, too.
I couldn't find any specs or pricing. have you found any?
Thomas
John M Gibby:
I think touch screen interfaces are here to stay, but there is one glaring (no pun intended) gotcha I see with these. If used in a production where the stage goes black, the lighting director is not going to be happy. Even just a few of these things glaring in the dark will destroy the mood of a dark set. However, I think eventually they will design into touchscreens automatic dimming based on ambient light. I'm sure some devices already have it, but I think all devices will have this somewhere down the road, even just to save battery life for battery-powered devices. And devices such as this might even be remotely dimmed through DMX. The church I worked in VA installed dimmable circuits to be able to dim the incandescent music stand lights just for that reason.
The idea is really slick though. Combine the Planning & Play features with a soft version of Roland's M-48 mixing capabilities and you've got a killer product at least on paper. The devil is in the details, so-to-speak. So it remains to be seen how well it works in a real-world environment.
John
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