VirtMus Portable

The Internet is filled with all sort of applications and programs that you could use in order to manage your files. One of them is VirtMus Portable.

It allows you to rehearse with your favorite musical instruments without having to turn the pages of the musical sheets with your hands. It sports a clean and intuitive graphical interface with many nice tools at hand.

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't come with a complicated setup that you would need to complete before you can actually use it. It sports a clean and intuitive graphical interface with many nice tools at hand.

VirtMus Portable is a neat application that allows you to rehearse with your favorite musical instruments without having to turn the pages of the musical sheets with your hands.

VirtMus allows the user to create "songs" out of sheet music images obtained from a scanner, digital camera, or pdf, and "PlayLists" out of the "songs". During a performance, the user can simply press a mouse button to move to the next / previous page or press various keyboard keys to advance the music.

USB foot switches are available which emulate mouse button presses thus freeing the hands to play the instrument. Even without a foot switch, using a laptop display avoids the problem of books that don't stay open, or loose leaf pages that fly off the music stand when the wind (or HVAC unit) blows.

It gives you the option to highlight certain parts of the song and to adjust opacity. It also comes with an extensive settings menu that allows you to pick the playlist and songs directory easily. You can also adjust the display orientation. It comes with the option to adjust the scroll percentage and to adjust the screen direction.

VirtMus Portable is a very useful application that allows you to rehearse with your favorite musical instruments without having to turn the pages of the musical sheets with your hands.