Yamaha MM8 88-Key Synthesizer Overview

The MM8 music Synthesizers carries all the musical power and resourceful control you require and a huge selection of dynamic, authentic Voices to help you create and perform in almost any style of music.

Yamaha MM8 Synthesizer

This powerful instrument also gives you total control over your sound, letting you dynamically modify sonic textures as you play with real-time tweakable knobs. It has integrated special Patterns that give full instrumental backing – drums, bass and chords to accompany your live performance and song making. The full length 88-key keyboard of the MM8 brings natural touch and expressive control over the complete piano range.

Graded Hammer Keyboard

With Yamahas long experience in crafting fine acoustic pianos, MM8 is outfitted with a remarkably expressive Graded Hammer Standard keyboard. If you’re a pianist, you’ll become aware of and be grateful for the difference as soon as you touch the keys of MM8 which feels and responds like a grand piano. The GHS keys are weighted heavier on the lower notes and bit by bit become lighter as you play up the keyboard, giving you detailed significant control over the sound.

Arpeggiator

The Arpeggio feature of MM8 lets you automatically trigger repeating rhythmic phrases, broken chords, riffs and melodic patterns and even transform them harmonically by the notes or chords you play with your left hand. Read more »

Clavia Nord Electro 3: 73-Key Synthesizer

The Clavia Nord Electro 3 is the performance keyboard that sets a new set based on its remarkable sound quality. The Electro 3 features a new piano section, new organ section, new effects and a new electrifying feature that allows

Clavia Nord Electro 3

the Electro 3 to make use of any samples from the Nord Sample library. The legacies of the original Electro and the experience that have shaped some of the other Nord models have been come together.

The requirements from a performing keyboard player haven’t actually changed all that much, good quality by no means goes out of style. The Nord Electro 3 is well-matched with the new Nord Piano library. It takes full benefit of the Library’s multitude of velocity layers, pedal-down samples and extremely high quality samples providing you with an unparalleled expressiveness. Any existing or future piano that is available for the Stage family will also automatically be available to the Nord Electro 3.

The Electro 3 sports some great samples to put in flavor to your sonic arsenal. It provides the classic Mellotron sounds, a selection of strings, a celeste, a vibraphone and many others. And just as with the piano partition, all of the samples can be replaced if the factory selection does not go with your instant needs.

The Electro 3 is loaded with a great assortment of pianos. There are three acoustic grands and two electric grands. Electric piano aficionados will adore the tine-based types; an Mk I, a Suitcase Mk I, an Mk II and an Mk V all with their unique and different personalities. Read more »

Roland AX-Synth: Shoulder Synthesizer

The fashionable and modish AX-Synth symbolizes Roland’s new generation of remote keyboards, however for the first time, this remote keyboard has a sound generator onboard. The AX-Synth is equipped with powerful, solo-oriented sounds from Roland’s newest, supreme synths. It pushes 6 hour battery life and MIDI over USB. The AX-Synth is filled with cool controllers for significant live performance. Move smoothly your fingers over the Ribbon Controller for ultra-smooth pitch bends.

Roland AX-Synth

It includes a Modulation Bar and dedicated control knobs for real-time sound shaping. Surf your hand over the invisible D Beam for attention-getting effects. The AX-Synth has a collection of vast solo sounds onboard, but if you want to customize your sounds, you can download the dedicated PC software editor/librarian application. The AX-Synth has the whole thing you need to steal the performance. Nothing like most remote synths of the past, the AX-Synth is self-contained and laden with hundreds of Roland’s greatest sounds. The AX-Synth is also able of pouring external instruments via MIDI. Plug into a MIDI device, and enjoy a limitless world of sounds and textures, all controllable from the AX-Synth. The AX-Synth’s USB/MIDI connector makes communication to and from your computer speedy and handy. Read more »