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Gear, Industry

Bigger, better Music China

Asia’s biggest music industry event, Music China, continues to grow, with the latest edition attracting 119,083 visitors from 105 countries – in addition to over 1,800 exhibitors. Organisers stress the strong showing by digital technologies, including e-drums which were on show at more than a dozen booths. Medeli returned to the show with its flagship MZ928 that won Best Recommended Product at Music China last year. The company unveiled its new MZ923, a more affordable version of the MZ928 with the same performance and sound quality, but in a more compact design with an attractive woodgrain shell appearance. The new MZ729 also made an appearance. Donner, meanwhile, showed off its Donner Beat series electronic drums powered by a 7” smart […]

Gear

Donner adds finger drumming pads

Donner has added two finger drumming-type instruments, Essential D1 Performance Beat Machine and the MEDO Portable Integrated Synth, Sampler, Looper, and MIDI Controller. The D1 is a Korg MPS-style beat maker and sampler with 16 velocity-sensitive pads. The sound engine handles 12 tracks, with custom effects, two send effects (delay and reverb) and a compressor on the master channel. The Essential D1 merges real-time recording and step sequencing workflows, and allows for seamless transitions between finger drumming and step sequencing. In collaboration with leading sound design label Loopmasters, the Essential D1 includes samples covering a variety of music genres, with an emphasis on electronic music. It functions a as standalone beat machine or can be paired with the Essential B1 […]

Gear, Industry

Chinese industry on show

Almost a quarter of a million visitors flocked to Asia’s biggest music show, Music China, held in October in Shanghai. According to organisers, the show drew 122,000 visitors, equalling its all-time visitor record reached in 2019. The event attracted more than 1,800 exhibitors, including some of Asia’s biggest percussion brands. Medeli gave its first public demonstration of the new MZ928 drum kit, its first full-sized kit released under its own branding. HXW Technology Co had a range of e-drum products on show including the flagship acoustic-style Avatar A81. Spokesperson Lucy She says the professional e-drum A21 and A31, the high-speed e-drum A51 and SD201-3SH, and the popular SD61-6, SD61-5 and SD51-2 lines were also on show. “We also took the MIDI pad EMP16, the sampler pad PD705, the percussion pad PD405 and the DM50 and DM30 drum amplifiers,” she adds. […]