[Firemover]

I've been using MobileSheets for my string quartet for a few years now. We mainly use it for gigs where we're playing background music but we have occasionally used it for performances (and later this year we're planning a performance of the Brahms Piano Quintet).

I bought four tablets and bought four MS licences under the same account. The tablets are Boox e-Ink tablets so the licences were for the e-Ink Android version of the app.

How do you do that / what account are they linked to?

To use the tablets at a gig we connect them using the app's leader/follower function via bluetooth. That allows me to choose a song or a setlist on my tablet so that it automatically loads on the other tablets. With Mike's help I worked out a way of setting the libraries up so that when I load the cello part on my tablet the appropriate part comes up on the other tablets. It was a bit of a workaround method but it works well. The workaround should become unnecessary when Mike finishes the versioning update but it was essential for us - there are quite a few violinists and violists who could be using the other tablets and I needed to set them up so that they could use them without needing to know anything about the app. With new players I show them how to turn on the tablet, how to open the app, and how to connect their tablet to mine, and I connect their pedal if they have one. Once that's all done the players just have to turn their own pages. Everything else is controlled from my app.

If your group always has the same 4/5 members and does concert performances (i.e. only needs a small number of pieces at a time) and the members aren't too tech-naive then it's probably easiest to let them each control their own tablet - control the settings, backup their libraries, create the setlists, decide how they want to handle page turns/repeats etc for themselves. It is certainly possible for you to control all of that yourself though.

The thread where Mike helped me set up the tablets for quartet use is here I think but let me know if I can help with that at all. Setting the libraries up so that you can control the other tablets from yours takes a little bit more work for you but is much easier if you set it up that way from the start.

Will check into that tomorrow, thanks for your insight.
I am pretty fammiliar arround computers so  I will defenetely try to set it up something like that. Maybe next update will allready have something like that in it.
I know it is easier to let them controll their own devices, but there is one more also that I have bought tablets. It is that I can keep them if there comes to any quarrels in quartet and I have all the music allready prepared for newcomer. It is 1 male and 3 female members, so we allready had some unnecessary dramma that has settled, but you never know...



Guy

We are a quartet with regular members for 5 years now allready, so we rarely get somene to substitute. We do some classical concerts every year, but play at gigs as background music aswell and now have a setlist that can go well into 6 hours of playing (mainly not classical music). But that takes 4 binders for every player so I've said enough is enough and invested in tablets.
Thank you for your answer.