The current version of the FreeHand MusicPad Pro stores music as images. There's no MusicXML or other music format present.
If you want an electronic music stand that does use MusicXML, recognizes the music as you play it, and turns the pages for you automatically, check out the MuseBook Score: http://www.musebook.com This is the first commercial electronic music stand product that we have seen with musical intelligence built in. It just started shipping for piano and MIDI keyboards, supporting piano/keyboard music. So you can work on a piano piece in Finale, export it to MusicXML, and read the music into your MuseBook. I just demoed this last week when giving a guest lecture at Stanford and it worked just as advertised. Unlike the MusicPad Pro, the MuseBook is a Windows software program. So you can use your laptop as a music stand for your MIDI keyboard. My laptop shows three systems of music at a time with no problems in landscape mode. If you want to use it with a piano, you'll probably want to use it on a Tablet PC and display in portrait mode. Both products have features that the other one doesn't. But naturally we're very excited to see an electronic music stand that uses a music format rather than an image format. As Mark mentioned, MusicXML was designed to make this type of innovative application easier to build and bring to market. So it's great to see it succeeding this way! Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
