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Arturia NAMM news

ARTURIA will unveil version 1.0 of Origin Keyboard, the keyboard version of its first Hardware Synthesizer, Origin. This keyboard lets you perform and create your music with a new level of dynamism, control and ergonomics.

Tonium Pacemaker in da house

Tonium, the developer of the first Pocket-Sized DJ System, posted this video on YouTube, showing us that the first products arrived at their offices and (probably) ready for shipping. Yep, they are getting there!

AAS Strum Acoustic just around the corner

“Can’t learn the guitar in time for your deadline. Your favorite session player is out of town. Romplers are not quite there. Strum is the just-right solution.” With these words Applied Acoustics introduces us to their new Strum Acoustic GS-1 Guitar Plug-in Synthesizer. Without giving away more details AAS says Strum Acoustic will be out by the end of 2008’s first quarter, when more details will be revealed.

UPDATE: Coming NAMM 2008, any rumours going around?

From January 17 to January 20 the NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in United States. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas. And every year rumours start to emerge on the internet on what the manufacturers have cooked up for us. What can we expect for the coming year. We tried to gather some totally unfounded and unauthorised ‘rumours’ for you.

ARTURIA announces version 1.2 of the Prophet V

The virtual emulation offered in the Prophet V is an exact replica of the original instrument and uses the same subtractive synthesis model. Subtractive synthesis refers to the filtering of sounds in a specific way in order to create harmonically rich waveforms and new timbres. Our reproduction of Subtractive synthesis with TAE guarantees the sound quality of the instrument. Arturia has announced update-version 1.2. which is free to all registered users and can be downloaded at their website.

Bosendorfer announces stage piano

Thanks to the Vienna Symphonic Library’s non-looped samples, the CEUSmaster sounds like a genuine Imperial, yet that in itself would hardly satisfy our requirements for product innovation. Only the fact that we could incorporate our computer piano know-how and our profound knowledge of grand piano construction led us to develop the CEUSmaster.