In it's day (circa pre 2005),the MusicPad was cutting edge, as there was nobody else out there producing anything comparable. Freehand Systems was a small startup co that put R&D seed $ from investor profits from the dot.com era to design and produce the MusicPad. Freehand's president had me test & evaluate their pre-production unit. Unfortunately, the dot.com bust, and then the more recent economic collapse affected sales and further R&D refinement. Move on to 2010, and I now feel that the iPad has replaced Freehand to store & disply Digital music. Freehand is now more focused on the software end of digital music. - Scott