The iPad is a much better device to take to the stage than a conventional laptop. It’s smaller and lighter than any laptop. It has no hinge to worry about. Its battery lasts long enough that you’d never have to worry about bringing a power cord. There’s no keyboard to spill liquids into accidentally. With [...]
I play guitar and/or bass when I’m on stage, so I knew right away that Setlists was going to need some sort of hands-free control. Very early in the design process, we planned support for the AirTurn as a key feature for version 1. AirTurn BT–105 with Pedalboard We have a good relationship with the folks [...]
If you’re in a band with a huge repertoire, you need robust and simple songbook management from your lyric prompter. We had added groups and manual sorting to our Teleprompt+ app, but we quickly suspected that for Setlists we needed a very different approach to file management. Singers would need to handle many more files [...]
I wanted to take a moment to talk about the way Setlists creates page breaks, because it’s a good demonstration of why you should share your design issues with your collaborators. As I mentioned in an earlier installment of this series, one of the early decisions for Setlists was that it wouldn’t have constantly scrolling [...]
I remember one time listening to Billy Sheehan explain why he doesn’t use active pickups on any of his basses. He said that batteries are a variable, and his goal was to eliminate as many variables as possible when he is performing. The more things you have in the chain of your setup, the more [...]
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