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The international hype juggernaut for the Tenori-On continues.
Yamaha Corporation of America is set to introduced the Tenori-on in the United States with launch events for the public and press in New York on April 16 and San Francisco on April 18, 2008.
Tenori-on literally means “sound in the palm of your hand” and is a twenty-first [...]

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Yamaha introduced the KX Series USB MIDI Studio, featuring a Yamaha keyboard, numerous creative control features, and integration with Steinberg DAW products.
The KX series gets its “feel” from a long lineage of Yamaha pianos and keyboards. With the addition of four assignable control knobs, dedicated performance controls, and DAW [...]

Winter NAMM Update: IK Multimedia announced that a special edition of IK Multimedia’s SampleTank, with sounds from over $3500 worth of IK’s award-winning virtual instrument products, such as Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog, Sonik Synth 2, SampleTron, Studiophonik and SampleTank, will come bundled inside the Yamaha X-Factor DVD, which ships with all Yamaha music production products, including [...]

Winter NAMM Show: Yamaha intro’d the Pocketrak 2G, a compact pocket recorder featuring 2GB of built-in memory, long battery life,  USB file transfer, and Steinberg Cubase AI DAW software.
The Pocketrak 2G features 2 tracks of CD quality recording in PCM, MP3 and Windows Media (WMA) formats. It’s designed for podcasting, field and location recording, audio [...]

pepemogt has posted an interesting jam with the Tenori-On as Midi-CV-Gate controller for Analogue Solutions tr-808 and tr-909 drums, the EML modular synth, Drumulator and Oberheim Xpander.

PC World has published its list of the 25 most innovative products of the year, and Yamaha’s Tenori-On is number 16:
16. Yamaha Tenori-On
Innovation: Inspired and intuitive handheld instrument redefines music-making.
Benefit: Nothing else even comes close to Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai’s digital instrument.
While the Tenori-On is likely to appeal to a fairly specialized audience, the [...]

Months of hype about Toshio Iwai’s innovative music gadget, the Tenori-On, appear to be paying off for Yamaha. Yamaha reports that, having sold out three months’ stocks within hours of the launch, they plan to forward production and air freight supplies into the UK to keep pace with demand.
Peter Peck, Marketing Manager Music Production at [...]

Peter Peck of Yamaha gives a demo of the Tenori-On at the official UK Launch in London on Sept 4, 2007:

Here, Toshio Iwai, the creator of the Tenori-On, gives a demo of the new music gizmo:

While the Tenori-On may have a cramped user interface with limited expressive capabilities and primitive sound manipulation options, it’s got [...]

Yamaha’s unique Tenori-On musical instrument is being launched today at at Phonica Records, in SOHO, London. A second launch event will be presented by Futuresonic at Mint Lounge, Manchester on 5th Sep, 2007.
For those that can’t be there, here’s what you need to know:
What Is The Tenori-On?
The Tenori-On is a 16 x 16 LED [...]

 

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KEYFAX NewMedia has announced the world’s first arpeggio editor for the Motif ES, S90ES, and MO series workstations.
ArpManager, an independent application written in France and exclusively distributed by KEYFAX, enables users to compile and create brand new arpeggio collections on a PC.
Featuring a simple user interface, you can drag and drop individual arpeggios from one [...]