That's where a touchpad comes in... with the Music Pad you can turn the pages back and forth by tapping the screen. I tried to think of ways to make MS Word or Adobe Acrobat do something similar and didn't get too far. I also considered the popular OMB program ShowPlay which displays jpgs and offered similar potential for music display but not as conveniently as the MPP. That's in addition to my secondary goal of having a convenient MP3 player at hand to play my backing tracks, which the MPP v4 offered. By the time I made a laptop do what the MPP did all that I was going to be well over the MPP's price.

MPP's software can do some nice things, like it can edit existing music. Scan a piece of music in and there is a tool in MPP that erases notes without erasing the staff, and then you can add in your own notes or annotations. Like everything with the MPP it doesn't work 100% but it's pretty effective. And btw, the individual music files created and stored by the MPP's software are quite small... another bonus.

Conceptually, the MPP is spot-on and lots of people ask me about it every week. I could sell a bunch of them if the darn Freehand company put more effort into getting OS updates and bug fixes out in a timely manner and do a little better job on the interface. That's my only beef.

Hey Bill

Glad to see you back and having a rockin' and rollin' day.

Hey Esh

I take it that it wasn't convenient to just set the MPP on your music rack without the gizmo?

That's one thing I was wondering about should I decide to get one whether I'd need or want the stand or if it could just as easily sit on my Tyros 2 music rack?

Esh

Come to think about it, glad to see you back pokin' your nose in for a change.

I guess it would only have to fall off your music stand once to make that $99 seem like a pretty good investment.

Hey Nigel

Yes, I had been considering that point, unless I could think of a way to secure it to the rack.

Hi Scott, Nigel, et all:

The bottom of the Music Pad Pro is rounded and it slips off of everything, plus it's a little too deep for the average music stand although it does rest on some, like on an acoustic piano. The rounded bottom was either a clever strategy to sell you more stuff or a stupid idea, you decide. Buying the music stand gives you the screw-on bracket for the back of the MPP, the locking slide-in music stand mount, the music stand, and that small but valuable tabletop pole. It may be coincidence but the mounting bracket does seem to fit over most keyboard music stands and then it sort of "locks on" with the tabletop pole giving added support.

My Musicpad works well in landscape mode on the G-70 music stand, Don and I used it on a gig the other night with no trouble. I do need to Velcro it to the stand for added protection, I just ordered another one for my second G-70. The advantage I see to the Musicpad is it’s not intrusive on stage, the complaint I hear about laptops is people thank you are doing Karaoke and you need a stand with second tier. The negative feature of the Music pad is that the opening screen is small with no way to change it, but I read Freehand is working on this problem and will fix it with a software update.

Hank

Esh-

I can't quite make it out from your picture, but looking at the rear of the MPP Music stand, where exactly does the bottom of it connect to your kb? Does it actually connect to the rear of the kb itself?

Currently I position a traditional music stand (with extenders) just above the rear edge of the Tyros....slightly underneath the actual display. Should the MPP and its stand be able to be positioned in a similar way?

Thanks-

Bill

Esh-

I can't quite make it out from your picture, but looking at the rear of the MPP Music stand, where exactly does the bottom of it connect to your kb? Does it actually connect to the rear of the kb itself?

Currently I position a traditional music stand (with extenders) just above the rear edge of the Tyros....slightly underneath the actual display. Should the MPP and its stand be able to be positioned in a similar way?

Thanks-

Bill