Plaidophile

As a device, the iPad is pretty interesting, although as a platform, I'm just not that excited about it very much. I do see a lot of potential for it in the music space, though. The obvious thing is to use it as a controller for Logic, but there's a different sort of app I want it for: sheet music.

Specifically, what I'd really like is the ability to load a MIDI file or Logic/Sibelius/whatever score, select one or more instruments to display, and one or more instruments to play as accompaniments, as a means of practicing my instrument.

Although I suspect that I could already do exactly this with any number of MIDI-based scoring environments on the Fujitsu tablet PC I just bought off eBay for $260. (But that wouldn't be Shiny and Revolutionary.)

Anyway I guess what I'm saying is that I don't really care about the iPad, and I will roll my eyes severely at "the first iPad band" because it's like people forget that musicians always use whatever they have available to make music, and it's not like music software is anything new.