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After much thought, to me, the smart play here is to buy the most current version available.

Given how often I perform and how critical reliability is to me, I think I'm asking for trouble if I try and save a few bucks and buy a closeout version that has a history of a few bugs and will likely have iffy technical support moving forward.

I'll pick up the accessories, but not the mic stand.

(Uh, if the opening for the mic stand is not standard, would somebody please give me a heads up? Thanks)

I hope this works out for me as well as it has for most of you.

Count on a few questions after I get it!



Bill in Dayton
www.billcorfield.com

Bill:

You'll want the music stand for the Music Pad. It's a $99 ripoff but it's the only way to get the bracket that attaches to the back of the MPP. It also comes with the little silver pole you see in the picture below which is called the "tabletop music stand". Because of the rounded shape of the bottom of the MPP it easily slides off of everything you try to set it on. I've found that the music stand attachment makes it easy to lock the MPP onto my piano's music stand as seen here. You can't live without it.

Thanks for the heads up!

Bill

What does the freehand do that a laptop can't?

See that picture above? The MPP's dedicated form factor combined with a ready-made stand/clamp that works instantly with my piano was a cool trick.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make a touchpad computer work in place of a Music Pad Pro, and I came up with some ideas but none of them were going to be convenient. So I bought one and it's worked out well despite some of it's drawbacks. I'm always open to better gear so if you got some then bring it.

1. Display is aprox 13" high by 10" wide, that makes for a good fit of lead sheets. My laptop is 14" wide by 9 high. Sheets don't fit as well. You can view the screen in portrait or landscape mode.
2. Ability to create playlists. There's no limit to the number of times a single copy of lyrics/leadsheet can be used on playlists. More than likely you'd have to have multiple copies of a leadsheet on a laptop.
3. Built in jack so that you can use an optional foot pedal to advance pages. Or you can just use the touch screen feature to advance pages.
4. A touch screen that allows you to write on the screen with a stylus. Color choice for what you write on the screen is pretty much unlimited.
5. You can create repeats of your lead sheets. If a lead sheet requires you to return to page 1 after reaching the 3rd page for instance you can simply create a repeat to get back to page 1 while advancing forward. In other words you don't have to touch the screen to go back.
6. Show look ahead pages. While on the current page you get a preview of what's on the next page.
There's a few more, but I find these very useful.

i was just wondering ....besides all the fantastic things you can do with a laptop on stage .....could you scan sheet music...save it as a jpeg the just view it on a LT screen also?

Well, today was a nice day for me...

Ordered a MPP newest version...

Ordered a T2...

Booked two clients for 17 dates next year...

Had lunch with Daughter #2

Had dinner with Daughter #1

Listened to a story from Daughter #3

Not a bad Monday, eh?



[This message has been edited by Bill in Dayton (edited 11-06-2006).]

Donny you could do that with the LT. IMHO the MPP just makes it easier view the sheets. Overall just a better fit for my taste.



Good deal, enjoy those new toys.

[This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 11-06-2006).]

There will always be new equipment, enjoy those GIRLS. They'll be grown and gone before you know it.
DonM