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Professional Tools for the Serious Musician

There are thousands and thousands of music apps out there, but only a few that are created for the working pro musician, on and off stage. Skrivarna Software offers some of the best: the Fakebook Pro music reader, the Rude Practice Pad rhythm trainer and the Andronome+ metronome multitool: Fakebook Pro Sheet Music Reader Serious musicians' gig go-to app! Accurate and transposable chord charts, PDF sheet music, ChordPro, ABC and lyrics; this app handles them all. The Fakebook Pro sheet music reader is preloaded with chord progressions for 1200 classic jazz standards from The Real Book ed 1,2,3,4,5... and over 400 classic pop songs. Instantly transpose the collection for Bb, Eb or F instruments, or transpose individual chord charts to suit the soloist or singer. Then import all your own PDF music to create the perfect setlist. Read more Rude Practice Pad App The Rude Practice Pad is the perfect training tool for drum set players, percussionists, marching bands and drum lines. From st...
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Finally! Started to write a Fakebook Pro Manual...

OK, I know this should have been done a long time ago. But, as most developers, I tend to avoid writing user manuals and other documentation. ("The software is sooo easy to use anyway", "That feature is self-explanatory, isn't it?") Well, now I have at least started. If you want to have a sneak preview on a very early alpha version (there are a lot of empty sections at the end...), please have a look here:  Fakebook Pro Manual 3.3 alpha
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A Merrier Christmas with a new Fakebook Pro

Just in time for Christmas, there is now a new release of the Fakebook Pro music reader app available on Google Play and Amazon : Double tap screen to go to the next song (a single tap still moves to next or previous page). New control to make photo or PDF black & white and increase contrast. Perfect when using the mobile or tablet camera to scan paper music! Metronome tempo now shown in list and music header. New symbols on chord keyboard. Plus, a few important bug fixes for key/pedal mapping and annotations on some devices. Available now! Merry Christmas!
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Andronome update! Bigger and better than ever.

Big and beautiful new update of the Andronome metronome -- easier to use, many new features and lower latency: Full-featured list editor to create and sort playlists with your presets. Select sounds: shakers, percussion, drums, noise and metronomes from most major DAWs (ProTools, Ableton, Cubase, FL Studio, Logic, Reason, Sonar) plus Maschine and AKAI MPC. New modes for intro (count-in) and gap click (ghost) practice. Bug fixes (most importantly a font correction for some devices). All features but the presets list are included also in the free version, so check it out now! Available on Google Play and Amazon .
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Check out the new Stomp pedal with Fakebook Pro

As a gigging musician your hands should be focused on playing music. Not turning pages. While your Fakebook Pro app made it easier to carry your charts and lyrics, you still have to take your hands off of your instrument to change pages. Unless you get a wireless pedal, of course. The Stomp pedal is a rugged, durable, and reliable app controller, making it the obvious choice for professionals and hobbyists alike. Stomp is housed in a solid metal enclosure, rugged enough to be run over by a truck, so it will handle any gig, night after night. Just throw it in your bag or attach it to your pedalboard and go off to the next gig. Stomp uses Bluetooth 4.0 and is tested compatible with the Fakebook Pro app. Check it out at https://codamusictech.com/products/bluetooth-page-turner-music-pedal-for-tablets  .
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Mail of the month - November - Chord editor and i18n

This months mails highlights some questions about the chord editor and internationalization (i18n): What do the icons Cb and T do? The "Cb" icon enables you to edit the chords (which is the default editing mode), while the "T" icon lets you edit or insert text/lyrics. This text layer is enabled when you import e.g. a chordpro song (with both chords and lyrics), but you can add a text layer to any chord chart. Why does the chord text suddenly get really narrow when editing and yet the rest of the chords are normal size? You are probably trying to squeeze to much chords in on each line. Fakebook Pro will not break lines anywhere, but does its best to honor the 4/6/8 bars per line setting. So, if you don't insert any tabs and bar lines (a bar line will automatically also insert a tab space) or manually break the line with an enter/return, the chord symbols will be scaled to fit. If they are to narrow to read comfortably, change the settings or manually break th...
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Mail of the month - October - Cloud drive and other questions

The Fakebook Pro app runs smoothly on the tablet of our singer. But now I got a problem! However, I now want to use an old Android tablet as a backup at gigs (Android 4.2.2 - Jelly Bean). Installing Fakebook did not cause any problems, however, when I wanted to add my songs, I was not able to find my Google Drive. I have access to the drive at this tablet. Maybe I'm doing something wrong and you can help me? The native file browser support for cloud storage like Google Drive, Dropbox etc wasn't introduced in Android until 5.0, this is why you cannot see it directly from Fakebook Pro. However, if you use the Google Drive app to browse your files and tap a supported format (like a PDF or PDFB script), you should get a question whether to open this in Fakebook Pro. Alternatively, you can tap the "three dots" icon on the file tile and then select "Open with" in the dialog. This should also allow you to select Fakebook Pro. I currently use iKlip Stage, whi...
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