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Originally posted by Uncle Dave:
Maybe I see more than just the "merits" of this unit. I see some real drawbacks that I thought deserved attention. Apparantly, you and I disagree. Wow.


If you can discuss the Music Pad Pro without making derogatory remarks about musicians who prefer to use music on stage, your views will be welcome I'm sure, even by me... fair?

In fact, Scott and I had a discussion earlier today about PDF resolutions... the Music Pad Pro (MPP for short) doesn't seem to be doing too well importing those downloadable fakebooks. Scott is working with Freehand support for a solution but I suspect that highly compressed PDF files might present a display problem for the MPP. We'll wait and see what Freehand says but I'm betting the news won't be good.

Also we discussed how you go about selecting files... say if I'm looking at "Ain't MisBehavin'" and get a request for "Somewhere My Love", how do we get there quickly? Apparently you do this Windows-fashion, by selecting the PDF from from the appropriate folder (using a supplied stylus I think). Not the fastest or handiest method but that's probably the only way to do it. Maybe it's faster in actual use. The MPP really wants you to setup "playlists" or songlists in advance for instantly moving from one selection to another. So requests or randomly choosing songs may take longer than we'd like, or it may just take getting used to.

The MPP seems a less than perfect solution at the moment, but I'm still hopeful.
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Jim Eshleman