Practicing Music Using Avid Scorch on your Apple ipad

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1 Practicing Music Using Avid Scorch on your Apple ipad 1. Go to the Apple itunes application store, and purchase and install the Avid Scorch application for your ipad. It costs $ When you run Scorch on your ipad, you start with a screen that shows all the Scorch music files you currently have on your ipad. The first file (the one with the question mark and the hand) contains instructions for how to run Scorch on the ipad. You should spend some time with this to understand how to run Scorch on the ipad. The very last page of these instructions talks about how to transfer Scorch music files from your computer to your ipad. It s a little complicated, so the following parts of THIS document try to tell you more. 2. Transferring Music Files to your ipad Cable your ipad to your computer. Start itunes on your computer On your computer, get to the itunes screen for Shared Files (See following Section 2.3). Here s how to do that under Windows (it s a little easier on a Mac): Click on the Library selector (that little blue icon at the left), and set it to Apps Click on Display Options (Top left icon), and turn on Show Menu Bar. That will display the Menu Bar File, Edit, View, Controls, Store, Help : Scorch on ipad Page 1 of 5 Revised

2 On the Menu Bar, click View > Show Sidebar. That will display the Sidebar. Then, on the Sidebar click on your ipad On the itunes Bar (below the Menu Bar), click on Apps. That will display a window of Apps controls. Towards the bottom of this screen, find File Sharing Hooray! You finally made it to the computer window for File Sharing. It will show a list of App icons, including Avid Scorch and any other apps on your ipad which support File Sharing. Now, under File Sharing, click on the Avid Scorch icon. Scorch on ipad Page 2 of 5 Revised

3 2.4. This will display a list of the files (from your PC) which you have Shared with the Avid Scorch app on your ipad Unfortunately, there doesn t seem to be any way to get a SIB file moved from the web-page directly to the ipad. Instead, you must first copy the file from the web-page to a temporary PC directory, and then copy the file from there to the itunes File Sharing area On your computer, go to your chorus s ipad files web-site (check with your chorus web-site administrator to find the exact link for your chorus) Right-click (Windows) or CTRL-click (Apple) on a desired song: Scorch on ipad Page 3 of 5 Revised

4 Now, you should see a menu whose format depends on the browser you re using. Select: If your browser is: Then select from the menu: Microsoft Internet Explorer Save Target As Apple Safari Download Linked File As Mozilla Firefox Save Link As Google Chrome Save Link As (Assuming your browser is Internet Explorer) Select Save Target As. Adjust the target directory to you temporary directory for storing SIB files: 3. Copyright restrictions. Some of the music for your chorus may be subject to copyright restrictions. The procedures described in this document are intended as a rehearsal aid for you to study the music for your chorus. It is intended for use only by people who have purchased a legal copy of the music. Please respect all copyrights, and do not distribute the music to others. Scorch on ipad Page 4 of 5 Revised

5 Drag and drop the file from your temporary directory window to the Avid Scorch Documents window: 3.2. Hooray! You now have transferred the music to your ipad. 4. Playing songs on your ipad under Scorch 4.1. The SIB files you transfer to your ipad contain all parts (SOP, ALTO, TENOR, BASS, etc.) at equal volume. However, you can use the ipad Scorch app s controls to make your part (e.g., ALTO) louder and the other parts softer You can also speed up or slow down the playback, using Scorch app controls See the ipad Scorch help file for more information on using these Scorch controls. Scorch on ipad Page 5 of 5 Revised