Roland
Bring Piano Music into Your Life with Alexa Technology
GO:PIANO With Alexa Built-in
Roland, a leading manufacturer and distributor of electronic musical instruments and professional video products, releases GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in, the company’s first musical instrument equipped with Amazon Alexa. Committed to inspiring the thrill of creative expression, Roland continually seeks to develop new technology solutions that make playing musical instruments easier, more accessible, and more enjoyable. Integrating Roland’s leading piano sound and features with intuitive operation via Alexa voice commands, GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in presents an exciting new way for everyone to learn and have fun with the piano.
Smart Operation with Simple Voice Commands
GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in makes complicated panel operations a thing of the past. Using just your voice, you can instantly call up any of the 40 onboard sounds, and you never have to take your hands off the keyboard. Many other settings can also be adjusted while staying in the flow, like turning the metronome on/off, changing up the beat, and more.
Play Along with Amazon Music
Play Along with Amazon Music
Since it also works as an Alexa-enabled device, GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in allows you to listen and play along to songs from Amazon Music (Requires a subscription to Prime Music or Amazon Music Unlimited. Visit the Amazon website for details.) through the keyboard’s high-quality sound system. With a huge variety of songs available, you’ll never run out of inspiration for daily music adventures.
Save Recordings in the Cloud
When you’ve mastered a piece or composed a new idea, just ask Alexa to record your performance. You can then listen back and evaluate what you’ve done. It’s even possible to upload your recordings to free cloud storage, where they’re always accessible for playback when GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in is connected via Wi-Fi.
Featuring voice control over nearly any function, GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in makes complicated panel operations a thing of the past. Piano players can ask Alexa to call up any of the 40 onboard sounds, without ever having to take their hands off the keyboard. Dozens of other common operations can be accessed with voice commands, like turning the metronome on/off, changing up the beat, and more.
GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in also works as a standard Alexa device, allowing users to listen and play along to songs from Amazon Music and other streaming services through the keyboard’s high-quality sound system. With Amazon Music, Prime members have access to ad-free listening of 2 million songs, and customers can also subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited, which provides access to more than 50 million songs and the latest new releases. Users can also take advantage of their favorite Alexa skills for everyday home tasks such as setting alarms, checking the weather, and many more.
With the combined technologies in GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in, users can fast-track learning like never before. Alexa sharpens music sensibilities with ear training and builds knowledge with trivia on composers and famous music. And by connecting a smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth, players can use Roland’s Piano Partner 2 app for iOS and Android to learn music scores and boost skills with fun exercises and musical games.
When the player has mastered a piece or composed a new idea, they can ask Alexa to record their performance. Recorded songs are always available in cloud storage via a wi-fi connection and can be played back through the piano using voice commands.
GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in inspires players with expressive sounds derived from Roland’s premium pianos. Each note responds like a fine acoustic grand, sparking creativity and stimulating ongoing musical growth. Electric pianos, organs, and many other sounds are also on board, allowing the user to explore different styles and expand their musical experience.
GO:PIANO with Alexa Built-in features a lightweight, portable design (4 kg/8 lb. 14 oz.) that’s easy to move around the home. Battery operation is also supported for mobile playing. (To use the Alexa feature and wi-fi connectivity, the instrument must be powered with the supplied AC adaptor.)
Virtual Instrument Library
Karanyi Sounds’ New Wavesynth an Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Wavesynth an Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Karanyi Sounds launched their most forward-looking instrument so far. Wavesynth is a new virtual instrument and a compelling waveshaper instrument for Kontakt 6.
Wavesynth Features
- 220+ Factory & Artist presets
- Sounds from 12 classic synths (Juno 106, JX & 8P, Voyager, Emulator, M1, Sub37, Prophet 6 & 8, OBX, MS20, CZ)
- 14 type of wavetable algorithms
- Amp & wavetable envelopes
- 2 LFO: Wavetable position & Prophet-type low pass filter
- Moog-type low pass filter
- 3 customizable effects: dimension, tape delay & hall reverb
- Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
- ROLL (intelligent randomizer)
Big, bold basslines to super peaky sequences and arps, cinematic soundscapes, drones. Fully packed with synth legends and brave new sounds waiting for you to create something unique. Wavesynth, a powerful waveshaper instrument for Kontakt 6. Fully packed with synth legends and brave new sounds waiting for you to create something unique. Wavesynth is almost as flexible as an analog synth: you have plenty of possibilities to shape, twist, stomp your sounds.
With over 60 parameters (all MIDI-learnable) and an intuitive interface design and Roll (our built-in intelligent randomizer), you can go wild and create new inspiring patches in seconds. Including Classic Essentials + VHS Cinema Sound Sets.
You have two toys to play with right out of the box: Classic Essential Sound Pack is a big warm hug for retrowave lovers while the VHS Cinema Sound Pack is fully packed with useful patches for film composers, electronic musicians. With over 220 artist presets.
Wavesynth Features
- 220+ Factory & Artist presets
- Sounds from 12 classic synths (Juno 106, JX & 8P, Voyager, Emulator, M1, Sub37, Prophet 6 & 8, OBX, MS20, CZ)
- 14 type of wavetable algorithms
- Amp & wavetable envelopes
- 2 LFO: Wavetable position & Prophet-type low pass filter
- Moog-type low pass filter
- 3 customizable effects: dimension, tape delay & hall reverb
- Master EQ, Compressor & Limiter
- ROLL (intelligent randomizer)
Please note: Wavesynth requires Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 (Full, retail version – free version of Kontakt NOT supported) or later in order to run.
About Karanyi Sounds
Karanyi Sounds is a sample developer company that was founded by award-winning composer, music producer Dani Karanyi in 2018. Over the last 17 years, Dani produced electronic music albums as well as film, animation, video game scores, and TV advertisements. As a pianist, he was always passionate about exploring how to bring life to the digital world of music production and seeking new techniques of sound manipulation. Teamed up with Los Angeles-based composers and other sound designers around Europe, he started to sample his favorite synthesizers and release them as Kontakt instruments with a simple-to-use, intuitive interface. Karanyi Sounds keep developing new inspiring instruments and expanding our repertoire to other sound sources too. Personally, I find the aesthetics mind-blowing outstanding pleasing.
Karanyi Sounds is crafting inspiring, high-quality sample collections in Kontakt format, focusing on film and video game scoring. Their goal is to create sonically rich, detailed and characteristic instruments like (or sometimes unlike than) the original sound sources. The company carefully select these sound sources while they also set up custom analog recording paths and rare combinations of effect chains to create unique, playable instruments. Unconventional recording techniques and sound design are as important parts of the modern music production as melodies and orchestration – so Karanyi Sounds is focusing on moods and characters as well as the sound sources themselves.
Pricing and Availability
Wavesynth is available now.
Virtual Instrument Library
CL-Projects (Frank Dierickx) joined Triple Spiral Audio
CL-Projects joined Triple Spiral Audio
Frank Dierickx from CL-Projects joined Triple Spiral Audio with a beautiful collection of products. Frank created 2 Omnisphere soundsets, 13 Kontakt libraries, and 3 soundbanks for the Roland D50 and Juno Alpha hardware synths.
CL-Projects is Frank Dierickx, a hobby musician & self-made sound designer. CL-Projects saw the light in 2012 with the idea to make patches for hardware and software synthesizers and later on to create sound libraries for the Native Instruments Kontakt sampler. He became interested in sampling because he wanted to use non-synth sounds like realistic choirs in his compositions. Kontakt was ideal for this purpose. He got interested in creating libraries himself, mainly libraries devoted to synthesizer sounds and his experience in programming synthesizers came in handy for creating these Kontakt libraries.
Because Frank’s first libraries (Electronic Expanse and the Pad Factory Series) were well received by friends, he decided to release his libraries to the public for a very economical price. He also creates patch banks for software and hardware synthesizers.
These CL-Projects soundsets, libraries, and soundbanks take you on a fantastic analog sound journey inspired by Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and many others.
Pricing and Availability
All the products are also available in various combinations as Bundles, so be sure to check those out as well.The CL-Projects soundsets and libraries are on sale with a 25% discount till 7 February, 2021 and you can find all the products here.
Pedal
Roland Updates the Range of BCB Pedalboards
Roland Updates the Range of BCB Pedalboards
Roland updated their flagship BCB pedalboard range and added a new model—the premium travel-friendly BCB-1000. The BCB-90X and BCB-30X offer more flexibility for modern pedal layouts and the BCB-1000 is a robust and practical solution for traveling with your pedals.
The world of effects pedals really started to expand in the early 1970s, launching a new era of creative exploration for guitarists. Soon, top touring players and session musicians began commissioning elaborate custom-built rigs to house their effects, and the concept of the modern pedalboard was born. But for the average player, an affordable, off-the-shelf option was virtually non-existent for many years.
That all changed in 1982 when BOSS introduced the BCB-6, a user-configurable pedalboard for the masses. This breakthrough product featured an innovative molded design that was both the board and carrying case, and allowed guitarists to incorporate six compact pedals—plus the new BOSS TU-12 tuner, another milestone product—in an integrated, ready-to-play package.
Adopted by countless players in the decades since BCB pedalboards have continued to evolve to meet their changing needs. The latest BCB lineup is our most versatile and diverse to date, providing trusted BOSS solutions for modern pedal setups and musicians on the move.
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