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ROll Up Piano – Yamano Hand ROll Piano – Digital & Portable 61 Keys Roll-Up Piano Electronic MIDI Keyboard with 16 MIDI Output Channels Design by the INVENTOR YAMANO JAPAN – (YAMANO is the ONLY brand Voted as one of “THE MOST AMAZING INVENTIONS” by the editors of Time Magazine)

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:19:12 +0000

The Yamano Hand Roll Piano keys are constructed of durable silicon rubber with ABS resin for a smooth finish. Weighing a mere 2 lbs., this roll up piano is extremely light-weight, making it ultra-portable. Roll Up Piano – Concert on the Go!
Roll up piano is the newest sensation in portable entertainment. With its unique roll-up design, this portable piano can go anywhere you can. Imagine playing the roll up piano at the park or just in your backyard. Amuse your friends and have some family fun with this full featured roll up piano.

Roll Up Piano – Makes the perfect gift!
Regardless of your age or skill level, roll up piano makes a great gift idea. This roll up piano is so easy to use that everyone will want to play it. Roll away for easy storage. For a piano gift that will keep on giving for years to come, roll up piano is an awesome choice.

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Casio CTK-4000 ersonal Keyboard, 61-Key, with MP3 Connection, 10 Second Sampling, and Digital Effects

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:27:35 +0000

The Casio CTK4000 is a Touch Sensitive General MIDI Keyboard that allows you to freely express all of your performances. And it’s loaded with features like a USB port to connect to your computer, plus 48-note polyphony so you are always in control. Want to sound like you are playing in a large concert hall? Consider it done with the on-board Digital Effects which will add another dimension to your playing. In addition, the CTK4000 keyboard features a 61-key full-size keyboard with MP3 connectivity, an LCD display, pitch-bend wheel, and a 3 Step Lesson learning system. The CTK4000 allows you to select up to 570 tones that now include a world music library. There are also 180 versatile rhythms to help add plenty of life to all your keyboard performances. The CTK4000 comes with a total of 152 built-in tunes. You can play back built-in tunes for your own listening pleasure, or you can use them for practice or even sing-alongs. You will also be able to record up to (more…)

Roll Up Piano – Digital & Portable 61 Keys Roll-Up Piano Electronic MIDI Keyboard with 16 MIDI Output Channels Design

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:43:32 +0000

For a roll up piano with all the features and quality you would like to have, this Roll Up Piano is simply the best value of any rollup piano at a very affordable price. This roll up piano is so portable that you can easily roll it up and bring it with you anywhere you go. Featuring 61 keys, 128 tones and 100 rhythms, this roll up piano is truly a must have for any piano player.

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface – The MIDI Trinity

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:58:22 +0000

Officially, MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, and it was invented in 1982. These days, it refers to three components:
1. A physical connector – between electronic instruments and between electronic instruments and a MIDI controller, usually a keyboard. The connector takes the form of MIDI IN and MIDI OUT jacks form which MIDI cables can bet plugged into any electronic instruments (and you’d be surprised at how much music hardware out there today is MIDI-capable – almost every detachable keyboard is!)
2. A message format – this message format is the heart of MIDI. This format is made up not of the sounds themselves, but simply the commands that are issued by the MIDI keyboard to the electronic instruments telling them how to play a given song (“play the violin” “turn down the volume to XX”, “adjust the pitch to YY”, etc.)
With the above two components, a musician was able to control a string of musical instruments from a single keyboard, giving him a “one-man band” effect.
3. A storage format – in other words, MIDI files. This latecomer of the MIDI trinity was what really did the trick because it allowed musicians to record their creations and tweak them on many different parameters until they got it sounding just they way they wanted it. Without this, MIDI songs could not be played back, because since MIDI commands include only the instructions to the instrument on how to play the song and not the actual music itself, they cannot be recorded in audio format. Now MIDI files can be recorded, emailed, or even downloaded from the Internet.
A MIDI studio can now be produced in two ways – via hardware or software. The hardware version involves connecting a keyboard (using MIDI cables) to the MIDI jack of an electronic instrument and then stringing together up to 16 of these instruments in a “daisy chain” by way of their MIDI IN and MIDI OUT jacks. The software version keeps the MIDI keyboard (or other MIDI controller such as a MIDI guitar, etc.), while the instruments appear in virtual form on a computer screen (various software programs such as Reason, Logic, and Cubase can do this).

A List Of The Best Yamaha Portable Keyboards

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:47:36 +0000

Portable keyboards are available everywhere and you can get them at any price range you want. If you want a very costly one you can easily get that and if you want a low priced one then that too is available. Here we will give you a list of all the top quality Yamaha portable keyboards and their price so that you can choose the one which best suits your purpose. The first one in our list is the Yamaha YPG 235, 76 key MIDI keyboard. This is a digital keyboard with the added feature of USB connectivity for your music transfer purposes. The price of the product is a hundred and nineteen dollars but you may get it for less if you haggle.Next is the Yamaha PSR E413, 61 key keyboards which is the newest in the Yamaha portable series. It is highly innovated and has several new features that are not present in the earlier version. This key board is priced at only two hundred dollars approx.Then comes the very dashing Yamaha P85, which has an eighty eight key keyboard. It is authentic and more preferred for the sound quality and expressiveness. It is one of the best ever made by the company and priced at about five hundred and fifty dollars it is a very good buy.The next is the Yamaha YPG 535, an eighty eight key keyboard which will offer you the added advantage of a grand touch soft action. Moreover, USB connectivity is present and you can easily connect it to your computer. The machine is priced at four hundred and fifty dollars.Now comes the lowest priced of all Yamaha portable keyboards, but one which is somewhat ranked in the middle. The Yamaha, PSR E213 61 key MIDI keyboard is one of the best for beginners of all ages. Priced at only eighty nine dollars, it is a good buy as it has about 375 instrumentals and full size, good keys. There are many other Yamaha keyboards available but the above mentioned are the best portable keyboards ever made by Yamaha.

The MIDI Controls On An Electronic Piano Keyboard

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:27:19 +0000

Almost all electronic piano keyboard functions have MIDI controls. They use an interface to send data as well as receive data. Now what is this data thats sent or received by these controls. For the simplest type of keyboard, data would be sent at the moment you press a key on a keyboard. These signals would then determine the specific note that has been pressed and the duration of the act or pressing down of the note. The duration has to be acknowledged because the amount of time the key is being pressed down for; has to be the same on the receiver or other keyboard source. Along with this signal there are other factors working which enables the success of the MIDI control. Each key that you touch has a sensor to it. Now, the function of this touch sensor is to sense the amount pressure that is being applied to the key and according the depth of sound produced, that note will vary. For more pressure the sound will be deeper while for less pressure it will be mild. Previously, only professional digital keyboards included MIDI. However, today all the electronic piano keyboards use it for effective sound production. The main purpose of the MIDI on an electronic piano keyboard is actually to produce a variety of sounds rather than just improving the quality of sound. This function is often preferred, as it enables the user to produce a variety of digital effects in the music he or she is playing. You can have effects like delay, reverberation, tremolo and the very common chorus effect. These effects help enhance the sound sensation of your music and therefore create different registers of track in the listener. Also, auto harmony can be used to create complemental notes of each single note at any pitch possible. There are also the modulation and pitch wheels that are added benefits along with the sustain pedals which help hold the notes for as long as necessary.Before MIDI was a common feature, keyboards were quite boring but now, every electronic piano keyboard can be used to produce a wide variety of sounds and effects.