lyrics up and have the congregation singing lot of things with it. There are now more than if you’re using it for on stage audio processing,
with them. Really we just want to give the forty actions that you can perform using just a so don’t update your iPad right away. Usually
power back to the musician to do more with foot pedal. iOS is going to ask you to update anyway.
but smaller musicians, and even people like For instance, you could use one foot pedal to Another thing you can do is turn off the
music therapists who can come into a hospital go down through your songs section by section automatic updating of apps. A lot of people
room and work with a patient with simply an and when you hit those sections it might fire off might get upset because we’ve updated
iPad. We just love knowing that it’s impacting different MIDI commands that then reconfigure OnSong and they didn’t ask for that to happen,
things in the medical field. your guitar effects pedal, or the patches on but that’s automatic and you can disable that
your keyboard. The MIDI component is really as well. So usually we say don’t be the first
It’s impacting a lot of older musicians who can’t awesome, you can take any kind of foot pedal one to go and find the problems, wait until
perform anymore because maybe their eyesight and configure it to send that and do a whole lot a couple versions and maybe test it out with
isn’t great and they can’t read the music, so of other things. But anything you can do with another iPad or your iPhone or something first
we have a lot of great tools that we’ve added your fingers you can do with your feet. And not and then update when its safe to do so and
to help those with visual impairments continue only that, since it’s just a signal that’s coming you’ve got time with the updates. Its sort of like
to play. in it doesn’t just have to be something on your when you’ve got a new guitar, you’re probably
less. That has helped not just worship teams,
foot, it could be a drum trigger, it could be a not going to perform that night with that guitar
Also what it’s done for the underground church tongue bite switch, so we have some users without at least practicing with it first. It’s the
as well, you shouldn’t really tell anyone this, but that might not have use of their hands or they same thing with any kind of update to software,
there are churches that are in areas where if might be organists and have to use their feet for you want to practice with it. One of the things
you walk around with a binder full of Christian the base pedals, so there are a lot of different we do at OnSong before you do any new
music you’d be thrown in prison. To have all of options for how you can control OnSong more features is make sure that it works solid on any
that music locked up on an iPad with industrial than just with touch. We wanted something iPad and that we work out those issues first
strength security, is self illuminated and does where the musician could stay engaged with and foremost.
everything you need for a worship service, now their audience or their congregation, so they what type of impact is that having in closed never have to take their hands off of their countries where Christianity is forbidden? instrument, they can continue to play and I think that’s what keeps us going a lot of focus on the music and focus on the presence [Jason] The first thing we tell people is to
the time. of the Lord and not have to worry about turning make sure you backup. iOS allows you to
the page. easily backup your whole iPad to iCloud. We’ve
[WM] Tell us about some of the foot control
functionality, and your relationship with AirTurn?
[WM] Do you have any iPad best practices?
heard of many people who have put their iPad
[WM] Where do you stand on updating on top of a van, took off down the road after a
the iOS? gig, and it hit’s the ground and gets destroyed
[Jason] We developed a relationship with
and you’re in trouble. So obviously backing up
AirTurn I think back in 2011, and actually one of [Jason] One of the things we always try to your iPad is the first thing, because if anything
their business partners lived about an hour from do is make our software work with the latest goes wrong with the hardware or you have a
me down near Philadelphia so we were able versions of iPads and iOS. Our goal is to always software issue, as long as you’ve got it backed
to get together and talk. We had some users make it work with the latest and greatest, up you can get a brand new iPad or wipe it and
ask if we could integrate this with a foot pedal, however, we also want to make it work with reinstall and you’re back up and running. The
and AirTurn is one of them. Obviously the main everything. So for a long time we actually only downside with that is that it takes a while
use of a foot pedal would be to turn pages, supported iOS 5 through iOS 10 or 11, so we if you need to fix it. OnSong also has a backup
but with OnSong we wanted it to do a whole were supporting six different versions of iOS. utility and you can configure it to automatically
lot more. So OnSong is the app that AirTurn Recently we said just 9 iOS and higher, but back up your OnSong library. If you get to a gig
uses to demonstrate their products. And we’ve we try to keep support for as many iPads out and you forgot your iPad or cracked the screen
helped push their products forward, instead of there as possible. That being said, one of the or whatever, you can beg borrow or steal (I
being just two pedals you can get an AirTurn biggest things we tell people is don’t update probably wouldn’t recommend stealing) and
pedal that has six buttons. A lot people ask why right away. You have to realize that OnSong is get another iPad and install OnSong and restore
you would need six buttons, and the answer used in a live production environment, so just your database and you’re up and running in
is that if you use OnSong you can do a whole like you wouldn’t update your Mac right away maybe two or three minutes. The other thing
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