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NEWS Roland E-09 Arranger Keyboard, Western, Eastern and Asian Sounds (03/29) Its price might say “low end,” but the E-09’s sounds and styles are nothing but first class. Building on the success of Roland’s popular E-series arranger keyboards, the E-09 ushers in a brand-new look, feel, and sound for the family. With its new high-quality sound engine, pro-style appearance, and powerful specifications — including a newly designed library of sounds and interactive styles — the E-09 raises the quality standard for entry-level arrangers.With a global array of interactive musical accompaniments onboard, the E-09 puts a world of colorful and authentic music under the player’s fingertips. Master programmers from around the world have created special Styles for the E-09, spotl Native Instruments East West Zero-G collaborate on Sample based instruments (01/10) Native instruments, the leading developer of software instruments, EAST WEST and Zero-G, two of the world's premier producers of professional soundware, are proud to announce that they are closely collaborating on a series of sample-based software instruments.Native instruments' experience in developing award-winning music software will be combined with the world-class quality, breadth and diversity of the EAST WEST and ZERO-G sample libraries. A new generation of realism, playability, user-customization and variety in sample-based instruments will be born.Native instruments, EAST WEST, and Zero-G invite you to be part of it:The first results of this promising partnership will be presented a Bitheadz announces new unity format sample libraries from East West, award winning east we (01/18) NAMM 2001, LOS ANGELES - BitHeadz, Inc., manufacturer of software musical instruments is proud to announce four new Unity format sample libraries from East West, the critically acclaimed sound development company.The new libraries include Quantum Leap Brass, Percussive Adventures, Steve Smith Rhythmic Journey, and Quantum Leap Guitar and Bass. These libraries have received five international awards from Keyboard Magazine and Sound on Sound (UK). All of these titles can now take advantage of Unity's extended polyphony, large sample capacity, fast sample load times, and phase-locked stereo processing."As musicians are rapidly discovering the amazing DSP power available within the latest crop o Joe Chiccarelli chooses Audio-Technica mics for his production of tim easton's new record (01/18) - A-T microphones critical in capturing the essential elements of an artist who many regard as one of the next important talents of the alt.country movement -Producer, mixer and engineer, Joe Chiccarelli, has made his mark with leading-edge artists in a variety of genres, from Tori Amos to Beck to U2 to Bon Jovi and Frank Zappa. In his latest endeavor as a producer, Joe captures the essence of Tim Easton, considered by many insiders to be an emerging major force in the lyrically powerful, gritty-sounding alt.country movement. Chiccarelli chose Audio-Technica 40 Series microphones to make this landmark recording."We took a minimalist approach with the sounds of all the instruments on the reco

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