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Setlists 1.2: Live Lyric Prompting Now Available on your iPhone or iPod touch

Setlists has just hit another milestone with the release of version 1.2. This update adds support for the iPhone and iPod touch, making Setlists accessible to millions more devices worldwide. And since the app is universal, those who have bought or buy Setlists for their iPads get this extra compatibility for free. So if your [...]

The Story of Setlists Part 8 – Taking your iPad to the Stage for Lyric Prompting

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 [...]

The Story of Setlists 7 – Advancing Lyrics on your iPad Hands Free

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 [...]

The Story of Setlists 6 – Managing your Lyric Catalog with an iPad on Stage

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 [...]

The Story of Setlists (the iPad lyrics app for musicians) 5 – Jam Session

“I don’t see the mockups for the remote feature. Did you ever get those to me.” This is what Tim wrote one night late in the process of developing Setlists. I had done so many mockups, so many revisions of every other aspect of the app, but for some reason, I had never gotten around [...]