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MUSIC TECHNOLOGY DIRECT EARLY FALL 1998 ISSUE
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Yamaha PSR Portables
They have features that, just a few years ago, were only
seen on high end keyboards. They have hundreds of
sounds, onboard sequencers, built-in accompaniment,
digital multieffects and, oh yeah, they sound incredible.
Dollar-for-dollar, the Yamaha PSR-Series keyboards
have serious music-making potential at surprisingly
affordable prices. — SEE PAGE 2
Guitars Without Compromi
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 2 PANASONIC DA7 DIGITAL MIXER SETS A NEW STANDARD mation and one function/one step screen layer operation, to name just a few features. You've been considering one of the new digital mixing consoles, but you might be Internally, the DA7 reflects Ramsa's expertise in digital consoles (Ramsa's DX-1000 digi- concerned about the steep learning curve. When you read the feat
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 3 By David Stewart is almost over, as well. They expect to roll them out in Wow! Just when we thought it was safe to hop in the August. The new QS6.1 ($999) will be taking over the low van and start driving again, what happens? We end up priced keyboard duties (see Page 8 for additional infor- in Nashville at the Summer NAMM Show. This year mation). David Bryce gave us a great demo of the new there were no helicopters or Lear jets to get us to DM Pro drum
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 4 SUMMER NAMM REPORT — Continued from Page 3 in 18 MB of wave ROM. Interestingly, the LCD display can be switched from amber to green. drum track, a dedicated bass track, and an external source track for triggering external LEXICON. Further solidifying their position as a premier guitar effects developer Lexi- MIDI gear plus a variety of real time controls in
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 5 By Chuck and Brenda Surack trating, but having to send Owners, Sweetwater Sound something back for repair is, at best, a hassle you can do Nothing upsets customers, retailers without. So let’s all be glad and manufacturers alike more than the that manufacturers care dreaded “vaporware” syndrome. We’ve enough about their custom- discussed it here before, but
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 6 There was a time when Macintosh owners had all the cool software. Not a fun cludes a library with hundreds of loops in many different musical styles: Techno, time for PC owners. But all that has changed, and now Mac audio addicts envy those Rock, Rave, Break Beat, Funk, Country, Hip-hop, Disco, Alternative, House, Indus- who live in the Windows world thanks to an incredible suite of products from a trial, Guitar, Amb
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Sweet Notes Page 7 A few years ago — has it really been that long already? — the guitar world was stunned by a new amplifier that boasted tube sound, but without tubes! The cutting-edge technology behind this startling development was called physical modeling. The product was the AxSys 212 by Line 6. As you might guess, it was a worldwide best seller. But now it's 19
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 8 BURN YOUR OWN CDS WITH MICROBOARDS ALESIS QS6.1 A few years ago, if you wanted a CD of your music, you had to spend big bucks for just one single disc. If you wanted data transferred from your computer to a CD-ROM, again, big bucks. by Daniel Fisher, Director of Soundware Engineering Man, am I glad that’s all changed! Today, you and I have the ability to b
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 9 In other Soundware news, we're proud to announce our by Daniel Fisher, Director of Soundware Engineering Having read your way through much of this issue you latest offering for the E-mu ESI-4000 sampler called the already know just how excited we are about the new prod- ESI Premium Rhythm Section CD-ROM ($99 list). It's ucts we saw at the Summer NAMM Show. It was also a the latest of our $99 Mini-Series CD-ROMs which now great chance to show the wor
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 10 over development of Apogee's Master Tools UV22 plug-in. An obvious first development will be VST compatibility. NASHVILLE NAMM REPORT SWEETWATER. We introduced our new SWx, a fully — Continued from Page 4 instantly — all in real time. The DVS-V55 ($550) is based loaded and customized version of the K2500 (see Page 9). ROLAND. We took a vote and Roland won the award on the engine of its big brother, the DPS-V77. It retains the We
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Sweet Notes Early Fall 1998 Page 11 By Jim Miller level of the cassette a bit, many people chose the cassette as the better-sounding Like most of you, I can sing a sad song these days. See, I didn’t get to format (thinking it was the CD). Amazing, isn’t it? Nashville for Summer NAMM. Oh I know, you’re thinking, “But Jim, you’re an Okay, if it’s so tough to hear the difference between cassettes and CDs, industry powerhouse! How
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BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE Address PAID Service SWEETWATER Requested SOUND 5335 BASS RD, FT. WAYNE, IN 46808 Paul Reed Smith Guitars Exclusive Summer NAMM Report Panasonic DA7 Digital Mixer Line 6 TubeTone Guitar Amps Lexicon, Microboards and more! DO YOU LOVE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY? Where Do You Want to Take Your Career? Are you tired of a job with an income ceiling? Want the opportunity to grow your income to the six figure level? Can You Run the Marathon? We don’t hide it. Everyone at Sweetwater works
