In the music world, there are two types of people. Those who make music, and those who help those who make music. Bert Smorenburg belongs to the second type though he is a great musician himself. He ...
The world's largest music gear expo is set to open its doors next week, and Yamaha has popped up early with a groove machine called the Seqtrak that could have jumped straight out of Teenage ...
Yamaha is a pillar of the electronic music making world, but it's perhaps best known for its stage synthesizers and studio monitors. Today, that might change as the company unveils the SEQTRAK ...
'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen... Here, Mat Riviere talks us through some of ...
Yamaha’s latest iPod docks look fantastic—it’s made with metal, not plastic—and sounds damn near as good. Our quick impression is that the sound’s rich—highs aren’t tinny like most—and there’s some ...
A little over a year ago, I wrote about a piece of high-end musical gear made by Yamaha called an AvantGrand. It’s what Yamaha refers to as a hybrid piano, which just means that the intricate key ...