Introducing the Rhodes V8 and V8 Pro
There are countless digital keyboard instruments and plugins striving to emulate the legendary (Fender) Rhodes sound. You will be hard-pressed to find a digital piano that doesn’t feature at least… Read more »
Category: New Product
Prepared Pianos and IRCAM Prepared Piano 2
Musicians will often customize their instruments in order to create a new sound palette with which to work. However, the piano is possibly the best instrument for such experimentation as… Read more »
New Product: Yamaha P-S500 Featuring Stream Lights
Yamaha has just launched the P-S500. This new smart digital piano takes its place as (arguably) the top-of-the-range model in Yamaha’s P-Series. P-Series instruments first appeared back in 1994, and… Read more »
New Model: Steinway Gran Nichetto Limited Edition
American piano maker Steinway & Sons has unveiled the latest edition in its Limited Edition series of grand pianos — The Gran Nichetto. Steinway releases just one or two Limited… Read more »
New Product: Augmented GRAND PIANO from Arturia
French music software and hardware developer Arturia has released Augmented Grand Piano. This intriguing new software package blends high-quality piano samples with modern synthesizer-based sounds. The result is a unique… Read more »
Roland Reveals 50th Anniversary Concept Piano
Japanese electronic musical instrument maker Roland is celebrating its 50th birthday. And to mark the occasion has created a very special digital piano — currently known as the “50th Anniversary… Read more »
Digital Piano Supply Shortage This Christmas?
The worldwide computer chip shortage continues. And although we regularly hear that this is affecting car production, it is also causing problems across the board for all manner of electronic… Read more »
Casio’s Stylish New Digital Pianos
Digital pianos have become increasingly popular over recent years, but don’t they almost all look the same? Whilst many acoustic piano manufacturers have, over the years, gone to great lengths… Read more »
The Challen Giant — Once the World’s Largest Piano — Lives Again!
In 1934 the directors of Challen, a leading British piano manufacturer, decided they wanted to do something special to mark the 1935 Silver Jubilee. This event was to celebrate the… Read more »
MetaPiano: A New Modelled Grand Piano from Sampleson
Software developer Sampleson (it prefers the term “Virtual Luthier”) has just released MetaPiano — apparently, this is the first-ever spectral modelled virtual grand piano. MetaPiano can be used as either… Read more »