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STOMP, introducing the best bluetooth page turner for flawless live performances
Looking for a bluetooth page turner? As a gigging musician, you rely on your sheet music or chord charts - and turning pages is the last thing you want to do. Removing your hands from your instrument disrupts the fluidity of your music.
STOMP is made to solve this issue.
Don’t let its sturdy metal encasing fool you into thinking it’s just another guitar pedal, STOMP is a sturdy bluetooth page turner which allows you to control compatible apps with your foot. Let us break down its different uses:
Features of STOMP bluetooth page turner
- Premium rugged metal enclosure
- 50+ foot range control of multiple devices
- 150 hours on a single charge using a 9v battery, or power using 9v DC power supply
- Made in USA
How to use it
STOMP can be used on the go by simply connecting it to your device through bluetooth. Then open the app of your choice - usually there are default settings that you can use on the go.
STOMP is rugged and pedal board-friendly. With its diverse functionalities, you’ll soon be asking yourself how you survived all these years without it.
Turn pages of your music sheet hands-free
This bluetooth page turner can control apps like Musicnotes , ForScore and OnSong, or any software that accepts keyboard commands. You can control apps in other ways like scrolling through the page, start your metronome, or even trigger backing tracks.
If you haven’t switched to a digital arrangement just yet, you should consider doing so.
Why should you use digital music arrangement?
- It’s environmentally-friendly, and you can save the costs of printing 🍃
- You can focus and play with both hands
- Digital files are a lot more portable than stacks of paper
- You can select and highlight parts of the song, and easily find the pieces you need through your library
- Digital libraries can usually hold more than 400,000 arrangements
Here are some of the most popular page turning apps
Start or stop metronome
It may be the best Bluetooth page turner - but it does so much more than just scrolling through your music sheet. You can control apps such as digital metronomes too.
With The Metronome app by Soundbrenner, you can easily create any tempo with different time signatures and accents, save them into individual set lists, and recall them with ease. Best of all, you can do it all right from your device.
This picture above is from the band Pink Droyd, who are completely relying on STOMP and The Metronome app for their metronome setup, with full control of the tempo right from their pedalboard.
Right switch = start and stop the click
Left switch = scrolls through tracks in my pre-saved set lists
Trigger backing tracks
Some people might think this is cheating, but we believe that very often, being a solo artist means it can be hard to create a full and complete sound. Backing track helps create texture and harmonic depth. And it is easier than you think! You can literally just play from your iTunes or an app called Stage Traxx 3
Connect the STOMP, bluetooth page turner, to your DAW and start/stop backing tracks on the fly. With just a tap of your foot, control your backing track. Works with most DAWs that support assignable key commands.
If you want to look for different types of mechanical metronomes- be it for kids, made with wood or plastic casing, Wittner has the best metronomes of course the mechanical ones. This company also sells individual parts just in case yours fail after decades of use.
As for the sound, you can definitely find metronomes with a more pleasant sound and not too punchy.
Change slides on PowerPoint, lyric software or teleprompters
You can have your lyrics on a PowerPoint and scroll through it with the switches - this Bluetooth page turner has switch left to go to the previous slide or right to go to the next slide. This is especially useful for worship bands where having the lyrics on display is not only crucial for the vocalists but also the audience itself. As for the teleprompter apps, you can use STOMP as a remote to start or stop scrolling, adjust scroll or start and stop the time recorder.
Lyric or teleprompter apps
