The famous and talented Scott Tibbs performs and shows off the The New Roland Jupiter 50. He makes it look so easy and demonstrates the need to be a technician and not solely a skillfull keyboard player. The sound of the Jupiter 50 sounds very 2012 as it combines synthesis and acoustic instruments with SuperNATURAL sound and Scott uses the on-the-fly controls to show its capabilities. I am looking forward to test drive one of these 76 note keyboards with its user-friendly interface with colour-coded buttons and sliders. I think cost-wise and weight-wise it may well do better than its bigger brother the Roland Jupiter 80. Hopefully we will not have to wait long now before they start showing up in the Music Stores. Excellent demo Scott.
Mar
27
Musikmesse International Press Award 2012
Here is a great collection of Music Magazines all together. Well this lot do have something in common ……………………..
……………………. they have all voted for the best musical instruments and audio equipment of 2011/2012 in more than 40 categories of the Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA). The awards have been awarded to some great products, here are just a few :-
Best Workstation – Korg Kronos
Best Synth – Roland Jupiter 80
Best Electronic Drums – Roland TD-30
Best Stage Piano – Clavia Nord Piano 2
Best Controller keyboard – Akai MAX49
Best Software Instrument – Native Instruments Komplete 8
Best Organ / Portable keyboard – Hammond SK-Series
Best Live Perfomance Tool – Native Instruments Maschine
Best Studio Microphone – Microtech Gefell M930TS
Best Studio Monitor – Focal SM9
Best Recording Software – Avid Protools 10
For the full list please go here:- http://www1.mipa-award.de/
Mar
24
Musikmesse Roland Jupiter 80 Version 2 and Jupiter 50 and iPad
Here is a great You Tube clip that achieves quite a bit. For a start it provides you with seeing the Jupiter 80 side by side with the new Jupiter 50. It explains what all the fuss is about with Version 2 which is a lovely free update for Jupiter 80 owners and it also highlight the editing capability of an iPad App for use with these monster synths. I must say that I got a feeling of how big the sound can be with these synths. I am looking forward to try out the Jupiter 50 and to see if it meets my live – playing requirements. The keyboard player from France in this clip is excellent, see what you think but I certainly enjoyed this one:-
Mar
24
Musikmesse 2012 New Roland TD15-KV V-Drum Kit
This really shows how good this new electronic V-Drum kit sounds, anounced this week at Musikmesse 2012 Frankfurt Germany. Craig Blundell shows off his rock drumming skills to bring you the new SuperNATURAL sounds and Behaviour Modelling. Today, the middle range of the V-Drums family inherits this acclaimed technology with the debut of the TD-15KV V-Tour kits. Have a look at the You Tube Clip:-
You have new sensing technology with “Behaviour Modelling” gives you a great natural drumming experience. You have 100 kits to choose from with 50 preset and 50 user kits. You also have some awesome recorded backing songs to play-along and practice with.
Mar
22
Musikmesse 2012 Roland TD-15 & TD-11 new Drum Modules
Roland continue to expand their V-Drums and now we have two more Drum Brain Modules with all new SuperNATURAL® sounds and Behavior Modeling Technology.
I was very pleased earlier this year when they announced the release of their flagship TD-30 Drum Sound Module although they are not in the shops yet. The TD-30 Module was the first V-Drums to have SuperNATURAL sounds produced by Behavior Modeling Technology to provide realism in both sound and expression for emulating drums, percussion, and other traditional instruments.
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Mar
21
Musikmesse 2012 Boss VE-5 Vocal Performer
Roland and Boss have certainly released a few products at this year’s Musikmesse in Frankfurt like the new Boss VE-5 Vocal Performer. It looks like it has some similarities with the TC Helicon range of products. Here is a You tube clip to give you some idea:-
Mar
21
At Musikmesse in Frankfurt today, a Korg demonstrator explained that in a few weeks there will be a new operating system 1.6 with editor software. This will make it very easy to edit eveything on a PC or MAC instead of staring at the small screen – Great News.
Alongside this today, Korg is also pleased to announce that KARO EXs Expansion Sample Series and KRS Professional Sound Series libraries are now available for the Kronos Music Workstation. KARO is a sound design team based in Germany, who have been producing high-quality sounds for Korg workstations for several years. Korg is pleased to welcome KARO as the first third-party KRONOS sound developer in their store.
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Mar
21
I now have the Roland Jupiter 50 keyboard specifications. It is a 76 note keyboard (with velocity) as follows:-
Mar
21
Roland Jupiter 50
Here is a great surprise from Musikmesse 2012 at Frankfurt – the new Roland Jupiter 50 lightweight 73 note synth.
Mar
20
Musikmesse 2012 – Clavia Nord Electro 4D
It is that time of year again where new products get announced. For us Europeans, we have the Musikmesse show held at Frankfurt. One such company who have been delighting us with their bright red products is Clavia. They launched the Nord Electro 10 years ago and have just announced the release of the new model called the Electro 4D.
This is a lightweight 7kg, 61-note keyboard that has that lovely semi-weighted waterfall key action also has excellent organ drawbars found on the very popular Nord C2D. They have updated the click modelling, added a brand new delay effect, given it a new rotary speaker simulation with a new drive feature and made it compatible with the fantastic Nord Sound Libraries collection
The Nord Electro 4D also supports Long Release which is suitable for legato playing and selectable String Resonance. To assist the handling of programs, there are four Program Banks and four Live Locations and the USB port now doubles as an USB-MIDI interface.
It should be shipping in May and cost is 1699 Euros – Can’t wait to hear it.
