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Is there even a need for pages anymore? Wouldn't it be nicer to have one long continuous sideways scroll in landscape mode. Even better if the App was able to
by usedtolurk 15y ago
Is there even a need for pages anymore? Wouldn't it be nicer to have one long continuous sideways scroll in landscape mode.
Even better if the App was able to match the scrolling speed to the playing speed automatically.
- high5ths 15y agoPlaying speed changes over time, and the problem with continuous scroll is that musicians often need to look away from the music -- at their hands, feet, at other musicians or the conductor -- and if the music has moved in the meantime, it is disorientating and not useful. That's why a page-based model is still the only way to work, even when you think a scrolling model is more efficient.
- __david__ 15y agoNot only that, but a lot of times you memorize different sections by their physical placement on the page. To lose that orientation would make memorization harder.
- Bud 15y agoAnother real-life need for pages (and page numbers) is for easy reference in rehearsals. You don't want to wait while 100 people figure out how to scroll to a given point without common reference points (although, yes, bar numbers would work, too). I also heartily agree with the commenter who noted that continuously-scrolling music would be disorienting in real use.
- dangrover 15y agoTried that with the iPhone version that came out in March last year. In practice it was silly and people liked the iPad version better.
- muxxa 15y agoI wonder have you thought of splitting pages in two, and showing the top half of the next page while you are playing through the bottom half of the current page? This would keep pages static. (I wish this could be implemented on my Kindle also, as I often push the button for the next page too early, and then have to turn back again to read the last 3 words).