Hardware for Music Stand

The Planning Center Music Stand app will run on any iPad. To load your chart initially, you need access to the internet, but once they are loaded in memory, the charts for the last 10 plans you have viewed in the app stay in memory. This means that if your church doesn't have internet access on stage, you can still load your iPads from another location, and then use them on stage.

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There are 2 bluetooth foot pedals that we recommend. The first is the AirTurn BT-105, a transmitter than can be hooked up to any footswitch. As shown above, it is bundled with 2 of AirTurn's very high quality, sleek & silent ATFS-2 Foot Switches. It works right out of the box and can be used with your existing pedals or with pedals you can purchase from their site. The built-in battery is rechargeable with the included USB cable and toggling the power button once allows the iPad to still show its built-in keyboard when you need to type.

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The Cicada by PageFlip is another great option. The Cicada is an all-in-one unit with more physical switches. You can still plug in your own custom pedals, but since its pedals are already built-in, that would make this option even larger. This pedal is much smaller than it looks in the pictures, but it still slightly larger than the AirTurn. The physical on/off switch is a great feature as well as the 5 buttons to choose what keys are triggered by each pedal. Planning Center Music Stand works right out of the box using the up and down arrow options (#3).

The Cicada is not as rugged or small as the AirTurn, but the price does reflect that and can be a great alternative if money is your primary concern. Also, the iPad keyboard won't show up when the Cicada is connected, though the accessible power switch will make temporarily turnning it off fairly easy, though slightly inconvenient when you need to type.

Any foot pedal that works like a USB or Bluetooth keyboard and doesn't require special software should work fine with Music Stand for iPad. Beginning with version 1.2.2, you can configure Music Stand for iPad to work with your pedal - just tap the "Settings" button next to the Annotations button in PDF mode. Once you set it, it will remember the settings the next time you use the app.

If you need to plug a USB keyboard or foot pedal into your iPad, you can use the USB to Dock connector included in Apple's iPad Camera Connector Kit, available for about $30 on their online store.

To connect a Bluetooth device, you need to enable Bluetooth and "pair" your device: this is found in Settings, under "General".

Troubleshooting: The iPad cannot recognize some keys from some input devices, such as "Page up" or "Page down", because they are not ordinary letters or numbers. To see what keys correspond to your pedals, you can open up the Notes app on your iPad, and start pressing pedals.

If your pedal is programmable, we recommend setting it to use the "f" and "b" keys for forward and back, respectively.