Yamaha Readies BODiBEAT – Beat-Matching MP3 Player

Yamaha is set to release a new digital music player for DJs who love to exercise. The BODiBEAT MP3 Player, which will be released in limited quantities, actually beat-matches your music to your excercise pace. No, we’re not kidding you… The BODiBEAT comes with integrated software that evaluates your music, probably using some type of granular DSP, and then matches the transients to the pace of your workout. It obviously...

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Optimal Media Production Premiers VinylDisc – Half CD, Half Vinyl Record

Optimal Media Production, a German concern, has developed a new CD format dubbed, VinylDisc, that contains a CD on one side, and a vinyl recording on the other. The CD side can hold 70 minutes of music, while the vinyl side, due to the dimensions of the compact disc, can only hold about 3 minutes. As a promotional play, it’s a very cool idea for dance music labels. Fightstar, a rock band on the Gut label, will be the first band...

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