Thank you all for the prompt answers.
I'll definitely get in touch with Frank before I buy the Music Pad, which is gonna be sometime on the second half of April.
Anyway so far, just like on this thread on this Forum, I've got very different opinions from users of this unit: some say couldn't live without it and others just hate it. I don't need an MP3 player (even thou a working one would be nice), but I'd like to make sure that I can get my (MIDI) scores in DigitalPerformer and about 200 other
songs from my different Real Books into the Music Pad Pro without too much headache.

What's the difference between the old $400 unit at Music123 and the $900 one at FreeHand?