Thanks to AirTurn for letting us know about a recent performance by violinist Giora Schmidt using the BT-105 and forScore! There’s a video interview with him on AirTurn’s website, and there’s an article on Ariama for those who are interested.
What he describes as “the most difficult work in the violin repertoire that I’ve ever played,” Schmidt premiered Franz Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor (transcribed for solo violin) for the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. It’s a piece that was written for ten fingers, and played by four, so there were technical challenges that called for an unconventional approach to reading music. For Giora, that approach was to use an iPad, forScore, and the BT-105. Here’s a particularly salient quote from the Ariama.com interview:
“What was brought on by necessity – either walk onstage with a page turner or use ten music stands to tape the 35 pages of sheet music across – has now completely changed how I read, annotate and perform with music.”
It’s really an incredible performance, as you can see below, and we’re honored to have helped make it possible. He’s a fantastic musician, a real advocate for this kind of technology, and we hope to be seeing a lot more from him very soon!
It’s something we’ve been waiting a long time for, and now we’re finally ready: forScore is packing its swimsuit and sunblock (or galoshes and umbrella, depending on where you live) and heading your way. Or, in less colorful terminology, we’re localizing our app and translating it for all of our patient customers who speak languages other than English.
To accomplish this monumental task, we need your help! If you speak English and a second language fluently, and you’d be willing to volunteer a little bit of your time, get in touch with us so we can give you the details. You can do as much or as little as you like, and we’ll be cross-referencing your results with a few other translators whenever possible, so there’s no pressure. As for the rest of you, well, we’ll be sure to send you a postcard!
Today we’re happy to announce the release of our newest iPhone and iPod Touch app, Beat Keeper, which brings forScore’s incredible metronome to the small screen.
It features the same gorgeous design and intuitive controls, an all-new visualizer, and the ability to create presets for your most common settings. It even works in silent mode, putting an end to noisy interruptions.
While most of forScore’s features are interdependent, some of them really shine on their own: they don’t need a large screen, and they’re great for musicians who only own an iPhone or iPod Touch. They also fund their own development, rather than diverting resources that would otherwise be used for fixing bugs and ensuring stability. We think you’ll love the results. [iTunes]
With the release of iOS 5 right around the corner, many of you are likely wondering if it’s safe to update or if you should hold off for a little while. We’re happy to report that as of today, with version 3.1.3, we’re ready. We’ve done a lot of work to prepare for this release, and although there’s no way we can know for certain that we’ve caught every change, we don’t anticipate any major problems. If you rely on forScore—or any app for that matter—you’ll need to decide when the time is right to upgrade, but we think it’s going to be a seamless transition.
There is one important difference with the latest version, however, that results from policy changes on Apple’s behalf: we’ve had to remove our automatic backup feature entirely. It’s an unfortunate change, since we firmly believe that this feature does nothing but benefit our customers (even if it breaks a few rules in the process.) In the end, however, we have no choice but to adapt and move on. We work hard to make forScore the best it can be, and we’re looking forward to the future and all of the great iOS updates we’ll get to yell, sweat, and eventually cheer through. We hope you like it.
Thanks to AirTurn for letting us know about a recent performance by violinist Giora Schmidt using the BT-105 and forScore! There’s a video interview with him on AirTurn’s website, and there’s an article on Ariama for those who are interested.