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Music Products Industry News November 3, 2016

pBone rolls out free lessons plan

 Plastic trombone brand pBone is offering free music lessons to customers.  Through a partnership between Musicgurus.com and the British Trombone Society, pBone users can have their first nine music lessons,…

MMR Staff
Nov 3, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 3, 2016

New meter from RTW

German audio meter and monitoring specialist RTW has launched the new MM3 MusicMeter.  It features vectorscope, PPM/TruePeak or VU, real-time analyzers, Loudness vs. Time charts, as well as numerical and…

MMR Staff
Nov 3, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 3, 2016

JHS launches Christmas stocking

If it’s November it must be time for JHS to start plugging its Christmas stocking for guitarists.   This year’s stocking, which retails at £24.99 contains £52 worth of accessories according the…

MMR Staff
Nov 3, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Novation Launchpad Pro Scale Mode

Novation Launchpad Pro’s Scale Mode enables any Ableton Live-based producer to play and record in-key basslines, melodies, chords, and leads.   When activated Scale Mode assigns Launchpad Pro’s 64 pads…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Yamaha TF-Rack

Yamaha introduced TF-RACK, a compact rack-mount version of the company’s TF Series digital mixing consoles. TF-RACK offers all of the features found in TF Series desktop models released in 2015,…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

VocoPro Standalone Rolling Karaoke

VocoPro’s new Karaoke Rock-On Roller is an all-in-one karaoke system including a rotating 10 inch LCD screen and a multi-format disc player for CD+G and DVD playback. The Rock-On Roller…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Korg volca kick

Korg volca kick starts with a true-analog oscillator and offers drive and MS-20 resonator circuits to shape sounds that can be played and sequenced chromatically. The filter of the MS-20…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Korg microKORG-S

Korg microKORG-S starts with the legendary sound, layout and feature set of the original the microKORG and adds a 2.1 speaker system with power that far exceeds its size, 64…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Korg ARP Odyssey in Desktop Module Format

Korg ARP Odyssey is now available in a desktop module format with ARP Odyssey Modules; offering users all the editing and sound-shaping parameters from the keyboard versions.  This compact module…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Blue Microphones USB Studio Series

 Blue Microphones announced the USB Studio Series all-in-one systems for recording music, professional podcasts, audio for YouTube, and more. The USB Studio Series features systems that include Blue’s legendary Snowball,…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Ibanez Artwood Vintage Acoustics “Thermo Aged” Models

Ibanez introduced Artwood Vintage “Thermo Aged” models. Ibanez USA acoustic product manager Frank Facciolo explains the principle: “As a guitar ages— even a guitar built from carefully seasoned wood—over the…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016
Music Products Industry News November 2, 2016

Ibanez Artstar Vintage Expands With Distressed Finish

Ibanez has introduced two new guitars sporting relic’d finishes to its Artstar Vintage line. The AMV100DGBKL and the ASV100DGBKL are traditional Artstar double cutaway, semi-hollowbody guitars—distressed with a few strategic…

MMR Staff
Nov 2, 2016