Category Archives: Industry

Native Instruments Takes Kore On The Road For Daily Workshops And Nighttime Performances

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Planet-Musician

Starting on August 12th, Native Instruments will take KORE, the world’s first Universal Sound Platform, on the road for a three-city tour of daily workshops and nighttime performances. The Native Lab: Kore tour is sponsored by Remix magazine and will stop over in San Francisco, New York and Chicago. The events will be free to the public, and will provide deep insights into KORE’s capabilities and applications both in the studio and onstage. In addition to afternoon classes and evening parties, each event will feature product giveaways and special guest appearances.

For three consecutive Saturdays, the Native Lab: Kore events will offer beginning, intermediate and advanced KORE workshops, as well as in-depth Q&As with top artists using KORE in real-world situations. Featured artists include producer Dan the Automator (Handsome Boy Modeling School, Gorillaz, Dr. Octagon) in San Francisco, hip-hop legend Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Slick Rick) in New York and electronic duo Telefon Tel Aviv (Hefty Records) in Chicago. Leftfield electronic producer Richard Devine (Warp, Schematic, Sublight) will provide hands-on workshop instruction and hosting duties at each event.

Turning from the classroom to the stage, the Native Lab nighttime parties will showcase KORE in a live environment with performances and DJ sets from top NI sponsored artists, including Dan the Automator, Richard Devine, Telefon Tel Aviv, 1200 Warriors, Keith Hillebrandt, Halou, edIT, The Flashbulb and others. Full lineup details for each city are available on the NI website.

To be eligible for the KORE product giveaways, visitors must preregister online and be present during the afternoon training sessions; preregistered attendees will also receive three free issues of Remix magazine and a special subscription offer. Participants attending the afternoon workshops will receive VIP admission to the evening events.

For more information about Native Lab: Kore, including dates, preregistration instructions and venue details, please see www.native-instruments.com/koreevent.info.

For more information, visit their web site at www.native-instruments.com/afharmony01.info.

Posted in Industry, News, Recording, Software, Technology

Florida Music Presents Podcast Roundup Of Summer NAMM

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Planet-Musician

Presenting the latest in a number of informative podcast videos, Florida Music are happy to announce their latest: A podcast-format video of product demonstrations straight from the floor. People can get a direct look at many of the exciting products IN ACTION, long before they are available in stores.

In the Florida Music NAMM Texas Roundup Podcast Video, viewers will have the opportunity to see the new BOSS Micro BR along with Samson’s new Podcasting Package and M-Audio’s Conectiv and Torq DJ system.

Florida Music’s Extreme Podcasts are available for immediate download from the company’s website.

For more information, visit their web site at www.floridamusicco.com.

Posted in Industry, News

International Vintage Guitar Show To Be Held At Hamburg Museum In Germany

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Planet-Musician

Due to be held at the Museum of Hamburg in Germany during the weekend of 21/22 October, the International Vintage Guitar Show Hamburg is a new event intended as a meeting place for those wanting to sell/exchange vintage guitars, basses, amplifiers, and accessories predating 1980.

Visitors will also get the opportunity to view an extensive exhibition of rare and custom guitars from some of the largest, most important collections in Europe. These will include five ’59 flametop Les Paul Standards and three ’58 Flying V’s.

Also participating and showing a number of Custom Shop instruments are Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Epiphone, Guild and Höfner. Making a guest appearance, Nashville guitar guru, George Gruhn, will be on hand to offer appraisals of vintage instruments, while John English of the Fender Custom Shop will be holding a workshop.

Hamburgermuseum
Holstenwall 24
D20355 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: + 49 (0)40 428132-2380
Fax: + 49 (0)40 428132-3103
info@hamburgmuseum.de
www.hamburgmuseum.de

For further information on exhibiting contact:
Frank Krabbenhöft
Fax: + 49 40 39 10 94 06
vintageguitar@online.de

For more information, visit their web site at www.hamburgmuseum.de.

International Vintage Guitar Show

Posted in Events, Guitar, Industry

Sound On Sound Acquires Music Mart Magazine

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Planet-Musician

The SOS Publications Group, publishers of Sound On Sound and Sound On Sound USA magazines and the Sound On Sound website, has today acquired the premier UK musicians’ magazine Music Mart and its related website (formerly owned by Trinity Publications Ltd, part of the Trinity Mirror plc group).

SOS takes responsibility for all editorial and advertising bookings from and including the SEPTEMBER 2006 edition. All production of the magazine will immediately move to SOS’s Cambridge headquarters commencing with the September 2006 edition, which will be the first issue published by SOS (on sale 25 August).

Please note: all payments for past invoices up to and including the AUGUST 2006 issue should continue to be made to Trinity Publications in Birmingham, England.

Magazine & Website

SOS plans to grow Music Mart both in pagination and copy sales to deliver even better value for money to its loyal readership and advertising customers. The quarterly Live Sound supplement previously given away with Sound On Sound magazine will cease and instead be rolled into Music Mart on a monthly basis to expand its unique live sound editorial and allow greater capacity and frequency for PA-related product reviews, a core area of the magazine.

Strategically, an equal emphasis will be placed editorially on both the music making and gear-buying aspects of the magazine, and to better reflect this, the September edition will undergo a redesign and feature a new masthead logo.

In ensuing months the magazine will incorporate new editorial sections to widen its appeal and emphasise the new and secondhand gear market, with regular buyers’ guides, gig listings and musician wanted ads designed to make Music Mart the one-stop shop essential read for the gigging musician/band.

Music Mart along with Sound On Sound will play an important role as sponsor of the forthcoming Music Live exhibition in Birmingham this November, and Sounds Expo in early 2007, putting on a full complement of live sound, music business, recording and computer music-related seminars at each event.

Naturally, a revamped Music Mart website is in the pipeline which will fill in the missing pieces of the jigsaw and integrate with the hugely popular SOS website, which currently attracts over 450,000 unique users (1.5 million page iimpressions) each month. Through communication with this global user base of musicians we are convinced that exposure to the broader subject matter of Music Mart, presented with the renowned SOS approach to insightful and informative editorial, quality design and presentation will pay dividends for readers looking for unbiased, independent editorial advice and articles that they can rely upon to assist in their gear-purchasing and music-making endeavours, and that’s going to be good news for the entire industry too, creating as it will a powerful centralised platform for promotion to this readerbase.

For more information, visit their web site at www.soundonsound.com.

Posted in Audio, Computer, Industry, Recording, Technology