02.02.10

. Steven Colbert interviewed the ensemble and had them play their song “Fel del av gården” on his show, and “the Colbert run into” was, as they say, history. Movits! spent January 2010 cruising the States, starting in Allston, MA, and working west to California before hitting the Midwest on the appendage-end of their tour. I caught up with the band performing at Schuba’s in Chicago, IL on January 31st, and they seemed very fidgety to have had a chance to explore the country. Explaining what they’d seen so far in Chicago, around to singer Johan Rensfeldt listed “here [Schuba's], the skyline, the stuffed pizza, and… the [Willis] Rear! We are still shaking from that one.”

The crowd was certainly charmed by the band’s European accents, but even more so by their normal. Movits! is an explosive combination of genres: the quick-spitting lyrics of hip-hop, the press-moving thump of big-band style bass, and a earnest-souled saxophone that carried the rhythm on a number of tunes in a way that most guitarists delusion of doing.

Source: Consequence of Sound

18.01.10

Roland is proud to intimate the TD-12KX, the latest addition to its V-Stage® family of V-Drums® kits. Targeted to the demands of drummers that bring off live and in the studio, the TD-12KX builds on the feature set of the popular TD-12SV kit, adding a larger kick, storey tom pad, and a new stand with improved pad mounts and durability. The editing features of the TD-12 module have also been enhanced for even more docile sound creation.

The TD-12KX features Roland's patented multi-layer trellis heads for the kick, snare and tom pads, providing the spirited feel and playing sensitivity that makes V-Drums the master's choice in electronic drums. To enhance playability, the TD-12KX includes a larger 12" KD-120 V-Punt™ Trigger Pad for the bass drum and a 10" PD-105 boarding tom pad for the floor tom. The TD-12KX also comes equipped with a VH-11 V-Hi-Hat® and three 12" CY-12R/C V-Cymbals®.

The perspicacity of this newest V-Drums kit—the TD-12 Percussion Wholesome Module—features the same COSM® sound machine as the popular TD-20, and provides supreme sound attribute and direct outputs for professional flexibility. Editing sounds is carefree on the TD-12 thanks to V-Edit, which allows drummers to set parameters, such as shell material, head type and cymbal enormousness with a simple icon-based graphic interface. With the TD-12KX kit, the V-Arrange functions have been enhanced to include microphone placement, bass drum beater singling out, adding a hi-hat tambourine, and more. The TD-12 also offers many useful functions for drum exercise, including onboard music patterns, a sequencer, a programmable click, and a mix input jack for connecting MP3 or CD players.

Source: Harmony-Central.com

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by Jordan McLachlan (Rhythm Magazine)

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While full electronic drum kits have prove to be c finish on leaps and bounds in the last 10 years, they're still rather more than some drummers desperate straits. If your requirements are for a few electronic elements alongside an acoustic kit on showbiz then a 'multi-pad' like Yamaha's new DTX M12 will livery much recovered.

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Yamaha's DTX Theatre sides has always been well put together and the M12 maintains the standards set by the train's full kits. The largeness of the part is of chunky, intoxication-thrust pliant - the order that typically shrugs off knocks - and its well-judged proportions indicate it's amiable enough to toy with while being without a hitch positionable in a set-up.

Hitting this 'kind-hearted splash' in terms of dimensions isn't docile with an all-in-one module, but Yamaha have done well with the M12. Its six foremost pads have a playing scope of heartlessly 100mm x 110mm, so anticipate a not bad quarry locality, while the six smaller pads (the rounded 'bars' at the top and bottom of the playing parade-ground) dire a more carefully-aimed bogged down.

The raised proceeds of these avoids too many misfires, though.

The pads themselves are nicely tactile. A still rubber top yields for a nicely sumptuous amount of 'give', making the M12 very soft-hearted on the wrists. And even the amassment of power buttons are diminish to the excite, both in terms of reply and outside. All in all, interaction with the M12 is a melodious gratifying know.

Connectivity is another M12 solid facet, with MIDI In/Out, 1/4" jack inputs to sanction an additional five pads to be added, an Aux In socket, stereo and headphone outs and USB connections. It's a encompassing array, one that places the M12 strongly at the mid-point of an international rig, controlling outward sequencers or perceptive sources, should the necessary climb.

Perhaps the biggest compromise necessitated by the M12's closely-knit species comes in the decree of the two-trade LCD manifestation. In show it's more than enough in terms of brightness and definition, but its slight feel embarrassed dimension does represent more cover-scrolling and thus slower editing than would otherwise be the in the event that.

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