Michael, I carry the AC adapter for the iPAC but when I am working on stage or other places I have the Libretto for a backup. Between the two of them I have a full day of battery power. I tweak tunings but I don't do anything that's not in the help section of TuneLabPocket. I do tend to use different octave and partial settings than the default based on what type of scale I am working on. Since I don't have the help files installed on the iPAQ it did take me a bit of time to find my way around the program. Good Luck, Dale -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Musial Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:17 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: RE: palm pilot >TuneLabPocket is actually more user friendly than TuneLabPro, in my >opinion. As to battery life, it will tune a half a day without charging. I >either charge at lunch, switch to a Toshiba Libretto that has TuneLabPro on >it or get out the ol' tuning fork. Sure I wish it would go all day but the >state of the art on color screen current requirements and batteries is what >it is. I can usually plug in if I need to and the iPAQ will maintain memory >for quite a while until I can charge up. Dale, Why don't you take the cradle along, plug it in, tune with the ipaq in it so it will not run out of battery power... You probably need a recharge after about 3 tunings right? I doubt that your Libretto will run all day on its battery either. Don't you have to plug the Libretto in in in order to use it all day? I just replaced my Palm IIIxe with the new Ipaq 3835. What a huge difference! I can finally SEE what i am doing. I have tried TuneLab Pocket on it. I am not sure if I like it. It certainly is convenient and I really am surprised how well it works.. But I like to tweak calculated tunings and so far I have found it extremely klunky to do any kind of adjustment on the TLPocket program. The tuning graph is not very readable and I can not seem to get any kind of individual note information from it. Do you do any kind of on-the-fly adjustments while you tune? Any tips you might like to share? :) Michael Musial Reedsville Pa _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
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