Uncle Dave - sincerely - WTF are you doing here if you don't want to talk about the MERITS of the Music Pad Pro? This is a valuable topic to some of us, yet you waltz in here making yet another series of your narrow-minded statements just because YOU don't use music on stage. Does that mean the rest of us can't even talk about it without hearing from almighty you? Music is a crutch? Centuries of great musicians have used music on stage and still managed to entertain their audience - you could learn a lot from them if you weren't so limited in your view. I don't understand your need to put down other people's choices when it comes to playing in favor of your own except that you are an arrogant and self-absorbed individual.