[Editor’s Note: Mark Northam at FilmMusic Magazine has written the only interesting article that I’ve seen about the iPad. In reference to this 3rd idea, porting something like the Lemur or Dexter App to the iPad would be very cool.]

TrackPad – … laying at roughly the same angle as your computer keyboard does now and functioning as a huge trackpad …

DemoPad – Imagine sitting down with a director and playing a demo of your latest cues on your iPad, …

ScorePad – Imagine a world where recording musicians brought their iPads to the session and their parts were downloaded electronically to the iPads, or maybe even …

SpotPad – One of the most important events in the creation of a film score is the spotting meeting the composer has with the director …

PracticePad / TunePad – Imagine the ability … “monitor” the player’s practicing. …

SpeechPad – … Imagine “telling” your sequencer to “stretch the time in bars 48 through 52 so that bar 53 begins art 01:20:35:15, or to “change the g sharp in bar 80 to a d”…

NotePad – …During a film scoring project, a composer will receive a great deal of feedback, notes and other information, and recording those notes into an iPad …

[Editor note: One thing that I would add is an easy to use GPG encryption and/or watermarking tool. The nature of sending scores back and forth via mail and wireless is going to be a big temptation for letting something ‘cool’ onto the intertubz.]

Read the entire article at:

Ten Ways The iPad Could Enhance The Film Scoring Process
by Mark Northam