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Welcome to our news page, These articles consist of all kinds of musical equipment news, events, and miscellaneous news from many different sources.
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Current Events
Tower of Power set to tour with Journey and Steve Miller BandLos Angeles, CA (November 14, 2013) - One of music's most renowned soul/funk bands, TOWER OF POWER, will join JOURNEY and STEVE MILLER BAND for a 2014 summer tour on May 15 at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, California. The tour, produced by Live Nation, will bring three iconic groups that helped define the "San Francisco Sound" - Tower of Power, Journey and Steve Miller Band - to more than 30 cities across North America including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Toronto and Detroit. A full listing of tour dates follows. More Info |
Yamaha and Quincy Jones team up for Music EducationYamaha today announced a new partnership with Playground Sessions, the award-winning interactive keyboard software co-created by music legend Quincy Jones. The companies & partnership demonstrates a shared desire to increase access to high-quality and engaging music education for aspiring pianists in the U.S. More Info |
Gear News
Korg announces OS v2.1.1 update for the KronosThis is a very cool update with Newly Updated CX-3 Organ Sounds. More Info |
Kurzweil announces MPG200 Digital PianoYoung Chang/Kurzweil is proud to announce the new MPG200 Digital Grand Piano. This marks the FIRST Kurzweil digital grand piano in over 8 years with the last being the industry leading Mark 150/152 series. The KURZWEIL MPG200 combines an elegant compact-grand piano design with the legendary sound technology of Kurzweil. Outstanding craftsmanship includes an all-wood rim and high quality polyester finish – combined with new technological innovations including a digital amplification system and VAST sound architecture. More Info |
KARMA Lab releases KARMA Motif software version 3.1Karma-Lab has released KARMA Motif Software Version 3.1, a major update that adds support for several more Yamaha instruments and Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9. A free update for any current owners, version 3.1 adds the following new features and improvements. More Info |
Korg releases a full size analog MS-20 you build from a kitAs a follow-up to the in-demand MS-20 Mini, and with musical do-it-yourselfers in mind, Korg has debuted the MS-20 Kit, a limited-edition kit that allows anyone-from musicians to the musically curious-to easily and safely build a working reproduction of Korg's original, iconic MS-20 analog synth. Only 1,000 units will be available worldwide. More Info |
Other News and General Information
Bob Moog Foundation announces major archive additionsThe Bob Moog Foundation (BMF) has announced significant additions to the Asheville, NC-based foundation's archives. Included in these new additions are several rare prototypes, including one of the few Moog Apollo Synthesizers in the world (the Apollo became the prototype for the Polymoog), the Moog Liberation, Moog Drum Controller, Moog Sequencer, Moog Song Producer, Moog Feedback Suppressor; as well as production models of the Minutemoog, and a Moog Vocoder. Also added to the archives are more than 1,000 schematic drawings dating from 1965 through 1985. More Info |
MIDI Reloaded: Why MIDI Still Matters, Part 1Three decades ago, keyboards were wedded to tone generators in the same enclosure, and digital audio recording were expensive and rare, but then MIDI appeared. MIDI is a digital language by which synths, sequencers, and controllers talk to one another. Among its early benefits was separating the keyboard controller from sound generators so that a single keyboard could control multiple, less expensive, and typically rack-mounted tone modules. MIDI also offered a high-quality "multitrack" recording experience to composers and working musicians who couldn't have afforded their own multitrack tape machines. Today you can easily record 100 tracks of digital audio on a basic laptop, so MIDI may seem irrelevant in the studio. Yet MIDI remains not only viable, but valuable, because it lets you exploit today's studio in ways that digital audio still can't. More Info |