Does the apple adapter of the link below work to avoid a wifi router?
If you still have Lightening on you iPad, it seems to be the case, yes. If you have USB-C like me, any USB-C to Ethernet adapter should provide the same functionality.
Thank you. I have ipad with usb-c. I will buy one
FYI, I use this one which can do much more than Ethernet and works very well:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerExpand-Ethernet-Delivery-MacBook/dp/B08C9HZ5YT?ref_=ast_sto_dp
Anker 6-in-1 USB C Hub with 65W Power Delivery, 4K HDMI, 1Gbps Ethernet, USB Ports for MacBook Air, iPad Pro, XPS, and More. Looks great.
I was or I am curious if it could be an alternative to running two instances of Gig Performer to use Camelot. My first impression is that if find Camelot complicated and a little bit overwhelming, but maybe that’s because I got so used to Gig Performer. So I try to start with a simple Setup. I somehow managed that Camelot recognizes my Nord Stage 4 as MIDI Input. As an example I have loaded in Camelot the Triton Extreme VST. The next thing I would like to do would be sending Program Changes to the Triton VST in Camelot from Gig Performer. If that’s possible. One thing I really like about running two instances of GP is that if one instance sends a Program Change, the second instances is automatically in sync and the Program Change just happens. Now we have the situation that GP can only “see” Camalot MIDI In to send Program Changes, but GP obviously can not see the VST inside Camelot which should receive the Program Change from GP. So did anybody here manage this and if yes, how? In the moment I am asking myself why am I doing this? Life could be so easy with two instances of GP, but I am curious or am I a masochist? 
In the meantime I could manage to send a Program Change from GP to Camelot. Can someone tell my if it is also possible by sending Program Changes form GP to Camelot to switch to another Layer in Camelot? Thank you in advance!
Did you check that a plugin loaded in Camelot reacts in incoming PC messages?
I would say : yes
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No. Not an alternative.
Are there features of Camelot you want to use? Otherwise you won’t get that many people here that could help you with Camelot. You’re also having to learn another app. Why do that to yourself
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I spend some time with Camelot. It was helpful in the sense that I now even more appreciate that Gig Performer can have two instances. I can only say that Camelot was a real struggle.
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A really uninteresting alternative… what a strange idea! 
I promise I will never do such a silly thing again 
Never say never…
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I would like to reopen this discussion. I got out of the music business pre-MIDI because of time and cost constraints. Now that I am retired and can afford to be a musician, I’m playing catch up. As an amateur who didn’t go through decades of evolution for keyboardists, I see a lot of quick quip responses that I don’t understand. But I think there may be a solution for me in all of this somewhere if I just knew enough to understand what has been said.
I am a Camelot convert. As a Windows user, when searching for something to manage configuration changes between songs easier, Camelot was less expensive that Gig Performer and it promised to do everything I wanted done. And it did until upgrades to Windows and VSTs and the application itself caused it to constantly crash. I even bought a new computer and installed everything new and clean and still ended up with a system that constantly crashed. That was when I decided to try Gig Performer.
Learning Camelot was a 1 day experience for me. Learning Gig Performer took more than a week. But we all consume input differently, have different initial expectations, and getting past our own personal mental blocks is the reason there is more than one solution for everything (MAC vs Window for example).
So, I am now a Gig Performer user and I’m never turning back. I’m past the learning curve. I can set up new songs as fast in GP as I ever did in Camelot. Set list management is different but better once you learn it. Full steam ahead.
Here’s what I miss about Camelot. Yes, I do work from the chord sheets the guitar players give me. I don’t particularly need the lyrics other than to know where we are in the song. But I do much better when I see the entire sheet (or two) on one screen rather than scrolling when I change song parts (which I really have found no use for so far). Camelot allowed me to see two pages of PDF on one screen along with any annotations I happened to add in Camelot. I miss that a lot.
I would never use (or recommend using) Camelot as a second VST controller. GP can do it all. And I have never even had to go to a second instance of GP to accomplish anything. But, I could see having still using the PDF display feature of Camelot along with GP. Camelot does accept song changes via MIDI. And, GP is capable of sending MIDI under certain circumstances. That would require a lot of coordination making sure my set lists in each app were identical and on the same page initially. And it would really get nasty when the guys decide they want to insert some other song not in the list.
I am a firm believer in KISS (keep it simple stupid). I have made GP the central controller of everything. I send messages to GP from one keyboard (sometimes two) and a foot controller and I expect GP to handle all of those messages. I don’t want a second controller. I don’t even have buttons and sliders on any of my equipment. And I don’t use voices buried in the keyboard I choose to use. Everything is VST and GP is in control, routing MIDI signals to the VSTs and audio generate by VSTs to effects and outputs.
So, using Camelot is probably not a really good solution for viewing my PDF files that should be associated with a song. I see lot of comments about OSC and other software that sound like they might be the solution I am looking for. But, being a pre-MIDI guy, I don’t know anything about OSC or how apps like a PDF viewer might communicate with each other.
So, is there an OSC for Dummys out there somewhere? I’m sure many have already solved this problem. I’ve seen some posts showing they have. But there isn’t really enough explanation on the hardware and software involved and how they talk to each other. Any help getting caught up on these technologies would be greatly appreciated.
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So, found that OSC uses Unix style RPC to communicate messages similar to MIDI across a network. IP addresses required? No DNS/WINS/bonjour naming? Seriously? This probably has nothing to do with a solution for my desire that I would find more useful than cumbersome.
[blog] Scrolling your lyrics or lead sheets
Lots of options for the lyrics.
Including the Lyrics extension.
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If you’re using OSC on the same machine (for inter-app communication) it’s quite simple.
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OSC is a protocol which allows devices and/or software to exchange messages each other like you can do with MIDI. This is not the solution to everything.
Regarding the way you could display sheets music in GP, you could perhaps have a look here:
You could also simply use an iPad as an additionnal display to keep things « KISS ». I personally uses an iPad with the NewZik App which has probably the nicest GUI of the industry (and many other nice features), but it misses the Program Change option to sync with GP songs. Another very good alternative is MobileSheets which has it.
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No, it does not use RPC. It runs over IP using the UDP protocol (meaning packet delivery is not guaranteed) and it is completely asynchronous. It was originally intended to replace MID protocol and is in fact still used with many alternate controllers but these days it mostly seems to be used as a control protocol.