05-17-2015, 02:13 AM
Thanks for posting, this thread really helped me out! I was looking for the best possible combination of screen and app for reading sheet music in my orchestras.
For my 50plus-year-old eyes, 10 inch tablets are too small for reading full A4, so I went looking for a 12 inch tablet. The size of the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is fine, but the (Pentile) screen just doesn’t offer the wonderful contrast, resolution and brightness I found in the Microsoft Surface Pro 3.
Searching for the best app (in the non-Apple world) I found MobileSheetsPro, which was only just released – lucky me. I love both its extensive functionality and its pleasant user interface – including making annotations with the Surface pen.
The only challenge was matching the Android app with the Windows 8 tablet. I solved this, as suggested here, by installing the DuOS emulator, which to me looks 100% Android. Last week I discovered that my combination even runs faster than a native implementation on a Samsung Note Pro . I was struggling to connect the Windows environment to the Android environment on the Surface, but I decided to just avoid this and use Dropbox.
I am very happy with the combination!
For my 50plus-year-old eyes, 10 inch tablets are too small for reading full A4, so I went looking for a 12 inch tablet. The size of the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is fine, but the (Pentile) screen just doesn’t offer the wonderful contrast, resolution and brightness I found in the Microsoft Surface Pro 3.
Searching for the best app (in the non-Apple world) I found MobileSheetsPro, which was only just released – lucky me. I love both its extensive functionality and its pleasant user interface – including making annotations with the Surface pen.
The only challenge was matching the Android app with the Windows 8 tablet. I solved this, as suggested here, by installing the DuOS emulator, which to me looks 100% Android. Last week I discovered that my combination even runs faster than a native implementation on a Samsung Note Pro . I was struggling to connect the Windows environment to the Android environment on the Surface, but I decided to just avoid this and use Dropbox.
I am very happy with the combination!