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Feb 03, 2022

New pencil kit in Music Stand 4.4 on iOS

We may have snuck a little Music Stand update under your Christmas tree last year—did anyone find it? Whether you use an Apple Pencil to annotate your music sheets, or you draw everything by hand, you will now see a whole new set of drawing tools. You’ll find a richer toolset, with a new Pencil to join the current Pen and Highlighter, and a whole new experience using them all. As you draw with an Apple Pencil, you will notice that your note will respond more naturally, almost like you’re dra

Matt Steingard

2 min read

Jul 18, 2019

Sync Metronomes Across Your Team

Metronomes are an easy tool you can give your musicians to help them play in sync, which is why we built one into the fabric of Music Stand. But even if everyone on your team is using a metronome to keep themselves in time, what happens if each person’s time starts at a different time? Confusing? Yes. This is why we built in a new technology called Ableton Link, to give you the ability to sync your metronome with other team members’ devices from within Music Stand. After you enable

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 01, 2018

Edit Chord Charts with Music Stand 4.2

Last week Music Stand for iOS and Android was updated to version 4.2 and now allows you to edit lyrics & chord charts created in Planning Center, or create new ones from scratch. You can get chord charts into Planning Center in many ways. The most popular way is probably importing PDFs from SongSelect or PraiseCharts. If instead you make your own charts, or you want the ability to customize charts, you can enter the text into Lyrics & Chords, and Planning Center turns it into a PDF that can b

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Jan 30, 2018

Introducing Music Stand 4

Planning Center Music Stand was one of the first digital music reading apps. It was released in 2010 shortly after the original iPad was released. Over the years we not only added support for iPhone and Android devices, but we gave it lots of minor updates, and 3 major ones. Music Stand 4 is a huge update for Android and iOS with quite a few big new features, and lots of smaller improvements that make rehearsing and playing your music better than ever. Feature Summary 1. Zoo

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Mar 30, 2015

Metronome & Audio Looping for Android

Music Stand for Android just got a handful of great new features to make it even more powerful. We've added a full-featured metronome to help you stay on tempo, and added looping to the audio player to help you perfect that tricky section while you're rehearsing. Metronome PCO Services has let you store the tempo in beats per minute for a long time, and now Music Stand for Android can take advantage of that. Tap the metronome button in the toolbar to get started. You'll see controls on t

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Dec 18, 2014

Music Stand for Android 3.5

When we release a huge new version of an app, we're always sure to announce it. What we haven't done, however, is blogged much about intermediate updates to our iOS and Android apps in the past because we figured the people who have them installed will see what's new when they read their update release notes. I mean, everyone reads release notes, right!? ;) But it's time that changed! Yesterday's update to Music Stand for Android is the perfect chance to highlight some cool new stuff. Access

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Feb 10, 2014

Music Stand Version 3

Planning Center Music Stand is an add-on to PCO Services that connects to your account, downloads your music onto your tablet, and makes it easy to plan, practice or perform. Turn pages with a wireless foot pedal, take notes that are saved for the future, and listen to attached audio. Both the iPad and Android versions have been updated to version 3 with a new modern design customized for each operating system. We've also added tons of new features, so we decided to compile the best stuff in on

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

May 01, 2013

Plan Contributors, Text Message Setup & More!

Happy May! We've got some cool new features we want to tell you about today. While these additions are medium to smaller in scope, sometimes it's the small things that can make the most difference in your productivity! Don't worry, we are working on some bigger things, but for now, here are the details of the latest round of improvements. Plan Contributors At the bottom of every plan is a new Plan Contributors section that will show the user pictures for anyone who has made changes to tha

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Dec 05, 2012

Email Templates, Music Stand for Android, & iPad Metronome

'Tis the season of giving, and today we're giving you three awesome updates! Each update is for a different product, so hopefully there's something for everyone. Email Templates, Formatting & Signatures Communicating with your team through email is one of Planning Center's core features. Many people have different saved emails they send over and over again, so they've come up with systems where they save those emails in another program and then copy and paste them to Planning Center. From

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

6 min read

Oct 01, 2012

Music Stand 2.0

We're very excited to announce the release of Planning Center Music Stand 2.0, our biggest update yet! There's a lot of great new stuff in this update, so we wanted to give you some detail of what has changed. Brand New Design After spending so much time getting our Projector iPad presentation app pixel perfect, we wanted to put the same amount of love into Music Stand. Plus, we had just added some great features to Projector that we knew we were going to add to Music Stand, including p

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Nov 16, 2011

Music Stand Update with Wireless Display

Planning Center Music Stand 1.5 We're excited to announce the release of Planning Center Music Stand version 1.5. Music Stand connects directly to planningcenteronline.com to turn your music sets into a digital music stand. Open the Music Stand iPad app, select one of your dates, and your PDFs are loaded and ready to go! We've added quite a few great features recently, including background audio, but the exciting thing about this release is support for an external display using AirPlay. If

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 23, 2010

Music Stand Updates: Bluetooth Foot Pedal Sync, Annotations on Songs for iPad.

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current. To read more about our recent product and company updates, please visit https://www.planningcenter.com/blog. We wanted to take a moment and let you know about some new updates to the Music Stand app! These updates relate directly to the app for the iPad. The first is some exciting news: there is now a compatible bluetooth foot pedal transmitter on the market! Click here to go to the Air Turn site where you can purc

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Oct 13, 2010

Annotations on iPad for Music Stand and changes to our pricing!

We have released an update for the iPad Music Stand App! Now you can annotate your music directly on the iPad. You'll be able to highlight, draw, and enter text. Each user's annotations are saved for future use, and users can view or import other user's notes, too. Annotations sync perfectly between MusicStand on the web and the iPad app. We've also made a few changes to our pricing. The first big change is that now Planning Center LIVE will be available on ALL accounts! Live allows you t

Katie Willard

Customer Support

1 min read

Aug 25, 2010

Pre-Ordering for iPad Clip Now Available!

We are excited to let you know that we have begun accepting pre-orders for the "X-Clip" (iPad clip)! Manufacturing this clip has proven to take longer than we originally thought. BUT...we are coming down to the wire and can see that in the near future we'll be ready to ship these off to you, hot off the press. What's the "X-Clip"? The X-Clip is meant to hold your iPad on a mic stand so that you can use the Music Stand App on your iPad! Of course there are many things the X-Clip could be u

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Aug 17, 2010

Planning Center Music Stand Annotations & Tweet Your #WorshipSet

To Order the X-Clip for the iPad, Click Here! Wow! This summer has been busy. We have been going full speed (in between vacations) on a lot of new features that you are going to see us start rolling out pretty quickly over the next coming months. The first one, which so many people have been waiting for, is Planning Center Music Stand Annotations! Music Stand Annotations On The Web Our goal with annotations was to make it so that annotations added on the web show up on the iPad, and ann

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Jun 17, 2010

iPhone and Music Stand updates

To Order the X-Clip for the iPad, Click Here Greetings from Albuquerque! I'm sitting in our Planning Center booth at the National Worship Leader Conference here in New Mexico on the last day of a great conference! I love getting to travel around and meet all of our extremely loyal Planning Center users and hear about how PCO is helping you be more effective in your ministry; that's what Ministry Centered Technologies is all about! We recently introduced Planning Center Music Stand and

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

May 04, 2010

Introducing Music Stand

We are really excited to introduce to you today a project we have been working on over the last several months, Planning Center Online Music Stand. When we launched our API last year we were excited not only to see what kind of things others could do with the Planning Center framework, but also what other products we could develop. One of the first thoughts we had was to make a digital music stand using the PDFs you've already attached to your songs. And since each plan already has all of

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read