I'm very tech savvy and do graphic design so I was very prepared to go digital 5 plus years ago when I joined my ukulele group. After a short time of using paper, I started using my iPad 9.7" with OnSong and forScore, both of which I found on the cumbersome side. I make all my music sheets PDFs on my Mac with a great graphics design app, Canvas Draw, one page each, transferring them with Dropbox. (I'm a total Apple fanboy, Mac since 1986, iPhone, iPad, etc.)
After short time I found the 9.7" to be too small for my eyes (even with glasses), so I searched and could only find Android based larger tablets, the 12.9" iPad Pro was not out yet, and I knew it would be expensive. Finding MobileSheets Pro for Android convinced me to go for a 13" Android tablet for $150 from Amazon. I used that for about 2 years, but it was slow and had other shortcomings, then it died. By then the 12.9" iPad Pro came out for about $1000, which I didn't want to spend.
I bought another of the same Android on Amazon, but the shortcomings were getting more annoying, especially stylus functions that I needed to use all the time during rehearsals, so when MobileSheets Pro came out for Windows and my research said that a Windows stylus is much better than Android, I bought a 13.5" Windows tablet with stylus for $400. But neither the Android or Windows tablets could record while using another app, which I'd been doing during rehearsals with my iPhone and providing the audio tracks to the group on my web site.
The stylus was actually not that much better, but what really got to me was how difficult the Windows OS was, slow, very cumbersome, and doing updates all on its own at the most inconvenient times, like during rehearsal, with no way to control it. I was so frustrated that I stopped by an Apple Store and tested a 12.9" iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil, it ran circles around anything else, fast, smooth, logical. So I decided to stop being so shortsighted and bought a 64 GB referb from their web site with a Pencil for $800. I went with forScore because it has in app recording and got used to it's way of doing things.
I have about 300 songs, plus about 170 audio tracks attached to the song sheets with custom libraries and set lists making it extremely easy to pull them up.
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