Tag: Medeli

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, 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. […]

Gear

Millenium ups the ante

German music retail giant Thomann has introduced the Millenium MPS-1000 e-drum kit , setting a new standard in house-brand electronic percussion. Priced at under €1,000, the kit features full-size, acoustic-style drums and an 18” three-zone ride cymbal. The drums consist of a 20″x14″ kick drum, 13″x6″ dual-zone snare pad and 10″x6”, 12″x6″ and 14″x12″ dual-zone toms, all fitted with dual-ply mesh heads. The cymbal array includes a 13″ dual-zone hi-hat, two 15″ dual-zone crash pads with choke, and the 18″ triple-zone chokeable ride. The module, reminiscent of Alesis brains, comes with 40 preset kits and 40 user kits, 820 sounds and 70 songs. Its functions include quick record, metronome, compressors, equaliser, 23 effects, 335 MB space for user samples, and eight […]