Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
Alfred Music and MakeMusic, both part of Peaksware Holdings, LLC portfolio of companies, announces the offering of free Premium access to SmartMusic through June 30, 2020 to schools impacted by COVID-19…
Orange Amplification has announced that their online foundation Rock Guitar Course is now free with any purchase of an Orange amp, combo, cab or pedal. All existing owners of Orange products can now register their…
On the evenings of February 25 and 26, 2020, Genelec Inc. and Telefunken co-presented events celebrating and educating on the topic of immersive audio. The events took place in the…
Blue Man Group has taken to the road, and is taking immersive sound along with it for the first time. The group’s current North American Tour officially opened this past…
For Miami Symphony concerts in the Moore Elastika Building, events contractor Pete Diaz Productions turned to QSC, specifically a host of CP8 compact powered loudspeakers, K12.2 active loudspeakers and KW181 active subwoofers. “The Moore Building is…
MediaMatrix has announced that its NION Series of digital signal and control processors (DSPs) and nCIE PILOT control PC are now certified by the EN54-16 European Standard. These components form the nucleus…
Yamaha Guitar Group (YGG) today announced corrective action required for its Line 6 Relay G10 family of products. The transmitters, which connect to an electric guitar to enable wireless connectivity,…
On Wednesday, March 18, The NAMM Foundation will host a free online workshop called “Bridging the Gap: Teaching and Learning Music Online.” The webinar will begin at 9 AM PDT/ 12…
In the wake of the recent tornado in Nashville, Gibson Gives - the charitable arm of Gibson - launched a Guitar Recovery Programproviding immediate support and giving a guitar to…
On March 16, NAMM's Dan Del Fiorentino sent the following: Jim Salzer passed away on Saturday after a series of falls, the first of which broke several vertebrae in his…
On March 16, we received the following from NAMM's Dan Del Fiorentino: Our former Board member Lynn Sheeley passed away one day after his 98 birthday. His daughter wrote the…
Entertainment workers shouldn’t be collateral damage in the fight against COVID-19. We need a special Emergency Coronavirus Economic Support Benefit geared to include workers who have a bona fide, good…
