Casio America, Inc. is proud to announce its newest and most affordable lighted keyboard, the LK-165. The LK-165 features Casio’s proprietary Step-Up Lesson System, making it easy for anyone to learn to play the keyboard – starting with the basics.

The LK-165 allows novice users to learn 110 built-in songs phase by phase, at their own individual pace…

Yamaha Corporation of America, Keyboard Division, revealed the new Disklavier E3 system. The E3—which stands for Easy Enjoyment with Yamaha Elegance—is a new series of Disklavier performance reproducing pianos offering streamlined features and powerful functionality at a highly attractive price point.

"A host of leading-edge capabilities, coupled with a competitive price point, are sure to make the E3 Series a very popular system in the line," says Jim Levesque, Disklavier marketing manager. "The E3 offers the ideal solution for budget-minded customers seeking the performance quality of the Disklavier."

Roland is pleased to announce the release of v1.10 system upgrade for the Fantom-G series workstations, adding powerful multi-sampling capability, a new “Favorite Play” screen, a BPM calculator function for samples, and new enhancements to Single, Live and Song modes…

EDIROL by Roland is pleased to announce that the widely popular EDIROL R-09HR and R-09 portable digital recorders are now fully compatible with 32GB Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory cards. This additional memory card compatibility enables users to record many more hours of high-resolution.WAV PCM files, and up to 22 days of MP3 audio files with the EDIROL line of digital recorders.

The flagship R-09HR is the newest of EDIROL’s award-winning digital recorders, providing crystal-clear 24bit/96kHz fidelity that travels light and performs like a heavyweight…

During summer and fall 2007, for the first time in more than a decade, legendary British pop-rock band Genesis toured with the classic “power-trio” lineup of Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. Keyboardist Banks used a Korg OASYS as his main workstation, recreating fabled sounds from the band’s rich history.

As the keyboardist and pianist in one of the most successful and highly acclaimed British bands of the last 40 years, Tony Banks knows exactly what he needs from technology…

Korg announces the optional new EXs-3 Brass & Woodwinds Expansion Sample Library for its OASYS Open Architecture Synthesis Studio. It provides over 700MB of expressive, natural-sounding brass and woodwind instruments, perfect for pop and classical/film score applications. A free demo version is available to registered OASYS owners at www.korguser.net.

Korg has also released Operating System Version 1.3 for the OASYS. It features a major new form of synthesis, significant user-requested features for KARMA and new system enhancements…

Korg has announced Operating System Version 1.2 for the OASYS Open Architecture Synthesis Studio. In addition to new features and enhancements, it also offers a demo version of the LAC-1 Legacy Analog Collection containing the latest OASYS Expansion Instruments (EXi).

New OASYS v1.2 features include:

An easy-to-use chord feature that allows the user to store a chord then transpose it by playing single notes on the keyboard. The chord mode has been integrated with the Drum/Chord Pads, allowing eight such chords to be stored.

Polyphonic Unison and Unison Stereo Spread — Unison can now be enabled in Poly mode as well as in Mono…