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• SHANGHAI, Aug. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Music China will come back on October 11th -14th, 2023, at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre (SNIEC).
• Music lovers can freely demo and preview the best new gear, enjoy hands-on training, and get immersed in a series of insightful sessions with industry pros to learn the growth and vibrancy of the music industry and redefine industry standards.
• Tech+ Music Lab: An upgraded version of Music Lab focuses on innovative technology to inject new vitality into the music industry.
• Registration for Music China 2023 is now open.

• In 2013 Donner launched and listed its first MINI pedals, the Yellow Fall Delay Pedal on Amazon.
• Donner has garnered attention and acclaim in the online guitar community for their pedals' affordability, impressive sound, and solid build quality.
• Donner DDP-60 Digital Piano – $439.99 (New Arrival, 12% OFF ), Get it Now
  Donner manufactures innovative guitars and pedals that focus on entry-level music lovers and beginners.
• Since 2012 the Chinese company has introduced a wide range of instruments including guitars, pedals, MIDI keyboards, e-drums, digital pianos, audio interface etc.

• BUENA PARK, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Yamaha announced the new DM7 Series of professional digital mixers, delivering next level efficiency and agility for the most creative sound engineers.
• After decades of developing best-in-class technologies, the Yamaha DM7 Series combines the greatest elements of leading digital mixing systems with innovative new features in a powerful, ergonomic, flexible, and expandable package.
• The DM7 Series can be used with 1st and 2nd Generation Yamaha R Series I/O Racks and unlocks their 96kHz functionality.
• New and unique to Yamaha, DM7 features 'Split Mode,' which divides the input channels, scenes, and mix busses, letting one DM7 or DM7 Compact function like two separate mixers.

• After multiple attempts, they were directly chosen by the post-Australia Decides “committious mysterious” and hopped on the long haul to Liverpool.
• They did not disappoint, making it through to the final.
• Traditionally, synths in metal, particularly onstage, were generally frowned upon and seen as a sign of inauthenticity.
• Beginning with synthesised staccato pulses playing rich harmonic progressions, it feels like a classic Euro-trance anthem, not unlike the Swedish winner, Tattoo.

A what? I haven’t seen one of those in ages!

• It looks like a keyboard but is hung around the neck and played like a guitar.
• The first verse of Voyager’s song begins its ascent, “if you haven’t ever done anything like this before then you haven’t been alive”.
• I suppose not – I really need to get out with my keytar more often, this looks like fun.
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An instrument of mixed feelings

• Created in the late 1970s and popularised throughout the 1980s, it looks like a product of its time.
• Made of shiny plastic, shaped like the future, it’s showy and rather impractical to play.
• If you want to play chords, it is easier to play them on a horizontal keyboard, like a traditional synthesiser.
• Like its distant ancestor, the piano accordion, a player is free to move around, finally free of the horizontal grip of gravity.

The fall and the rise

• This quickly resulted in cheaper, easier-to-use synthesisers becoming more widely accessible, leading to the home recording boom we all enjoy today.
• This bastion of the future soon became as passe as the flat-tops, mohawks and mullets of the people who played them.
• As we moved into the 1990s, the joyous excesses of 1980s pop bands would soon be seen as daggy.
• Replaced by faceless DJs, flannel-wearing rockers and choreographed dancers, it was time to sell your keytar or put it into storage.