Kawai’s MP9500 digital piano is an upgraded and improved version of their MP9000, featuring their award-winning Harmonic Imaging sound technology and offering expanded MIDI capabilities, realistic (and tweakable) keyboard action for expressive playing, and much more. Keyboardists rave about the onboard sounds (64 instrument sounds).
This probably should go without saying, but we haven’t talked about it in quite a while. Sweetwater is known worldwide as being the foremost experts on Kurzweil keyboards. Dating all the way back to the legendary K250 (we have the largest inventory of K250 parts anywhere in the world), we’ve been on the cutting edge with their products, including development of some of the first (and best – don’t ask us, check out past reviews in Keyboard and EM magazines) third party sound libraries for them. There’s much more to buying a Kurzweil than just ordering a keyboard. There are in some cases as many as 10 or 15 different options you should consider (many of which most places don’t tell you about). Our service department has a long history of being on top of all of the installations and making sure your keyboard is perfectly set up. Historically we’ve done extra, preventive maintenance to the insides of the instruments to further ensure you don’t have problems. And on top of all this, when you buy a K2000, 2500, or 2600 from us we will throw in over $500 worth of free sounds both from our library and from Kurzweil’s own stash of sounds. Simply put, you can’t afford not to buy your Kurzweil from Sweetwater. If you’re even thinking about one of these great instruments, call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer and talk it over. He or she will likely be able to shed some light on things you may not have considered.
Sonic Foundry has announced the release of the public beta version of Sound Forge 6.0. New features include non destructive audio editing, multitask background rendering, new DirectX plug-in manager, enhanced zoom, new video render options, support for file sizes greater than 4 gig, and more. The free download is available from their website.
