What is SongBook+

General Description

SongBook+ is the stage-ready app for musicians!

With SongBook+ you manage your songs with lyrics and/or sheet music, playbacks, MIDI files, videos, and you always have them ready for your performance.

SongBook+ can set and control your MIDI-compatible devices according to the chosen song.

SongBook+ can be downloaded for free from the Apple AppStore, but the free basic version is limited to 15 songs. If desired, the basic version can then be upgraded to the full version via an in-app purchase.

SongBook+ itself does not include any song lyrics, sheet music, or other data! It serves to display or play back your own data.

Features at a Glance:

• Available for iPad, iPhone, and Mac

• Manage songs with good search and sorting options

• Display song lyrics or sheet music (PDF, TXT, PNG, JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, GIF, LRC, ChordPro)

• Play back playbacks (MP3, WAV, AIFF, M4A), up to 5 audio files simultaneously in sync

• Multitrack audio player (5 stereo audio files) with separate audio outputs

• Multichannel audio routing to separate audio outputs (if the corresponding hardware is available)

• Mixing console with 10-band equalizer and separate volume for the 5 audio files, globally and per song

• Play MIDI files (with external sound generation)

• Play karaoke videos (MOV, MP4, MPV, 3GP, M4V)

• Play background videos on an external monitor or projector

• Play jingles

• Loop function for optionally extending songs live (for audio, MIDI, and video files)

• Use in portrait or landscape mode

• Insert annotations/chords/symbols/notes/images/shapes

• Highlight/underline/strike-through text passages

• Handwrite/draw in the document

• Insert your own configurable function buttons into the document

• Page-turning full pages or continuous scrolling

• Automatic page-turning or scrolling

• Record the song position with your finger and play it back later like in karaoke

• Display lyrics from MIDI/MP3 files

• Control with foot pedal (MIDI foot pedals or keyboard-simulating foot pedals)

• Wirelessly connect multiple SongBooks for synchronous song selection

• Pre-select the next song while a song is playing

• Create playlists

• Music log for accounting with GEMA/SUIZA/…

• Photograph lyrics/sheet music and convert them into PDFs

• Night mode with inverted colors

• Visual and/or auditory metronome

• Connect an external monitor with possible rotation of 90/180/270 degrees

• Division into multiple books, e.g., one book per band

• Categorize songs with colored tags as desired and filter by them

Exceptional MIDI Capabilities:

Remotely control other devices via MIDI

• Call up the appropriate registration on the keyboard when opening the song

• Send configurable MIDI commands when opening/starting/stopping/closing the song

• Insert buttons for MIDI commands into the lyrics/sheet music

• Reusable MIDI macros

Remotely Control SongBook+ via MIDI

• Open songs in SongBook+

• Turn pages or scroll to a specific position

• Start/stop playback

• Start/stop metronome

• Play jingles

• Adjust device volume with MIDI ControlChange

• Adjust the volume of the audio players with MIDI ControlChange

• Configurable actions upon receipt of freely configurable ControlChange, ProgramChange, NoteOn, NoteOff, or SysEx messages

Additional Features

• Built-in MIDI monitor

• Play MIDI files via MIDI-Out on the keyboard/MIDI player/expander

• MIDI routing for targeted sending to specific MIDI outputs

• 2x MIDI-THRU for forwarding received MIDI data from a configurable MIDI input to a configurable MIDI output