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Akai Professional MPK mini Now Available
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Akai Professional MPK mini Now Available

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Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the immediate availability of MPK mini, portable keyboard controller. MPK mini strikes the perfect balance between portability and comprehensive software control by melding together the immediate control and grab-and-go convenience of the LPK25 and LPD8. The MPK mini is less than 13 inches across and weighs just over one pound and easily fits into a laptop case, backpack or messenger bag for extreme portability.

White, the new Black for Pioneer DJ CDJ-350-W and DJM-350-W
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White, the new Black for Pioneer DJ CDJ-350-W and DJM-350-W

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Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. Professional Sound and Visual Division today introduced a new pearl white version of its entry-level DJ system comprising of two CDJ-350-W digital media players and a DJM-350-W 2-channel mixer. As the popularity of music remixing increases, Pioneer continues to offer consumers the best way to engage in the art by offering innovative and fashionable DJ gear. The new pearl white CDJ-350-W and DJM-350-W models not only add a fashion statement to DJ performances but also offer two additional audio effects – Noise and Short Echo.

NAMM 2011: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier
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NAMM 2011: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier

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Kemper GmbH announce the new Kemper Profiling Amplifier to be unveiled at the NAMM Show 2011 in Los Angeles. The Kemper Profiling Amplifier is an entirely new concept for guitar amplification in the digital domain. Following the radical idea that every guitar player should be able to bring his personal sound of the tube amp setup he owns into a versatile, comfortable and most important reproducible format: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier “learns” the sonic behavior of any guitar amplifier and offers exactly the tone and feel the player knows from his “real” amp. The times of struggling to “re-find” that magic mic position in front of the speaker are over. Now there will be a profile available of basically any sonic condition the tube amp setup can provide.      

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Interesting Strategic Alliance Between Yamaha and Rupert Neve Designs

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Yamaha announces a strategic partnership with Rupert Neve Designs, based on both parties involvement with VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) Technology. VCM is an exclusive Yamaha digital technology, enabling engineers to achieve stunning sonic and musical performance by actually modeling the individual characteristics of a multitude of parts and components contributing to the final sound of original analog circuitry.

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Touch Record and Reason with your iPad – Retouch Control

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Retouch Control offers TouchOSC templates to control Propellerhead’s Record and Reason. So it is NOT an app but uses the TouchOSC app as a basis. TouchOSC is a universal iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol. Retouch Control is not available yet, more info is coming soon at www.retouchcontrol.com.

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More details on the coming Maschine 1.6 update

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Past november NI announced they were working on the Maschine 1.6 update with the most important change, the new feature of hosting VST/AU plugins. A feature that has been requested by many users from the start. So with this coming 1.6 update you will allowed to use VST and AU plugins as sound sources and effects in your Maschine project. This includes both the whole NI range of instruments and effects as well as any third-party plugin.

Play a real Fender Stratocaster with Rockband 3
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Play a real Fender Stratocaster with Rockband 3

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Fender, the name synonymous with rock ‘n’ roll, brings you the world’s first electric guitar that is also an officially licensed Rock Band 3 video game controller. Blending state-of-the-art gaming and guitar technology with the authenticity of Fender design and engineering, the Squier by Fender Stratocaster Guitar and Controller is created for musicians and gamers alike and rocks both worlds—whether plugged into a guitar amp or into a video game console.

Just Beautiful – Urushi Musical Interface
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Just Beautiful – Urushi Musical Interface

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What do you get when you are a product designer and electronic musician? Well … meet Yuri Suzuki! A japanese born designer living in London who makes electronic music as a side gig. Or is it the other way? Anyway, one of his latest projects is the Urushi Musical Interface. It is a touch panel style musical interface which uses principle of gold inlay. Watching the video makes me think it takes a lot of effort to understand the workings behind it and get a decent performance out of it. On the other hand … it just looks stunning!