[ask_b123]

Get the big iPad Pro. I got the iPad Air (10.86") for reading sheet music (piano and singing) and I love it, but after using it for a while I wish I had purchased the 12.9" Pro. Some people in my conservatory have it and it works great for them.

I'll probably end up upgrading soon just so reading sheet music is more comfortable. And it is much cheaper than $2000 (It reaches almost $2k with the 1TB + Apple Pencil, but starts at like $1.1k). No dual displays though.

I'm not sure if it qualifies as lightweight, but if you are referring to actual weight, it seems to weigh around half as the Yoga Book 9i and a bit more than double the Gvido sheet music reader...

The Air weighs 1 lb and it feels fine when holding it up during a performance, the 13" Pro weighs 1.5 lb.

[scarecrowbob]

I'm a pro musician and play a lot of gigs (and mix a lot of live music) on a 2016 12.9" ipad pro.

I used Forscore and have a bunch of fakebooks and custom charts on it. Even with a regular stylus it's been very useful (though I occasionally wish my 1st gen pencil had not died).

If I had to replace it I don't think I'd bother with a super new one, as this is plenty of horsepower / memory for the things I use it for. So probably way less than $1k, I'd think.

[ask_b123]

I recently moved from Piascore to ForScore. I still haven't got used to the gestures, annotations, settings and setlists, and I haven't found a way to set the UI to have the note names (Do, Re, Mi...), but otherwise I like it so far.

You are right on the horsepower, might also be worth getting a refurbished one instead. But I've ended up using my iPad for way more than just reading music so I'd get the new one if I was shopping atm.