I've owned a MusicPad Pro for the past 7 years and have been very happy with it. Rumors suggest that the company is no longer developing the unit, so what we have now is probably all we'll ever have from that company - just a rumor. The unit uses a thumb drive to store music in its proprietary format. I have a 1 gig memory stick and have over 3,000 (maybe 4,000) titles. I can access them and search via the system's very good 'browse collection' feature. I can also put songs into playlists that allow me to touch the right side of the screen (or press a foot pedal) and it automatically loads in the next song. Repeats can be programmed in very easily. You can also make notations on the screen in various ways, including text. Any graphic image or pdf file can be converted to freehand format and the company sells more music than one could play in one's lifetime that is in freehand format. I personally find converting Finale files to freehand results in less disk usage than using scans from a scanner or pdf files. I can't say that there is much about it I don't like. Some minor enhancements to how one finds and organizes files would be nice.
I think it was on a Reaper DAW format where I heard some people saying that they were having success using the iPad to view PDF files of music with success. I've not seen an iPad. James Gilbert www.jamesgilbertmusic.com > -----Original Message----- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On > Behalf Of David H. Bailey > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:09 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: [Finale] {Spam} iPad as electronic music stand > > I can't recall if this has been discussed on tpin or not (but then > again > I can't even remember what I had for dinner last night) so I thought I > would ask if anybody is using an iPad as an electronic music stand. > > I've looked into the dedicated Freehand MusicPadPro but am also > considering the iPad. The good thing about the Freehand is the screen > size, but the relatively tiny memory would mean a lot of switching > files > in and out, and it's not good for anything else. Plus I've read some > discouraging comments online about where the company is heading, so I'm > a bit reluctant to purchase something where the company might be gone > in > a year or two. If anybody is using one of these, please comment on it. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
