Save the date! Monday, October 11th, 2010 12:30 pm – 5:00 pm EDT SoundTree – the leader in turn-key classroom learning systems – invites you to join us for the fi rst-of-its-kind online music technology conference! Admission to this event is free for all music educators.

Introducing the next generation of the SoundBeam - the invisible, expanding keyboard in space. It's a Soundbeam, it's a synthesiser, it's a sampler, It's an amplifier, it's a drum machine - hence the '5'! The team at Soundbeam have been listening to their customers over the past twenty years, and this new version of Soundbeam incorporates a host of new features which users have consistently been asking for.

SoundTree is proud to announce the release of our Product Guide 2010 - filled with a wide variety of technology products that will enhance every music curriculum.  It has been nearly 5 years since our last product guide, and as you know, so much has changed since then.

The following webinars have been added to the SoundTree After School Webinar Schedule: Thur, May 20th: 7-8PM EST Finale 2010 Basics Thur, May 27th: 7-8PM EST Finale 2010 Tips & Tricks for Music Educators Visit http://www.soundtree.com/web-training for more information and to register.

If you’ve been reading the newspapers, listening to the news, or following Facebook and Twitter updates over the past few months, then you know that music programs across the country are being cut at an alarming rate. Just yesterday I received an email from my former cooperating teacher in New Jersey letting me know that the elementary instrumental music program in the district is being cut next year due to drastic reductions in state funding. This district has one of the most respected music programs in the state, and this was certainly upsetting news to hear.

In July 2010, the USC Thornton School of Music presents their annual Pro Tools training workshops for music educators. Held on USC’s University Park Campus, faculty from Thornton’s Music Industry program and representatives from Digidesign will train music educators to teach the official Pro Tools courseware and develop curriculum for teaching digital audio recording related courses in the high school and college classroom. For more information, call (213) 740-3224 or email musicindustry@thornton.usc.edu.

You may remember that a few years back Sibelius distributed a software title for a short while here in the US called O-Generator Learning to Compose.

WINTER NAMM SHOW, ANAHEIM, CA, January 14, 2010 — Korg introduces the SOUND on SOUND (SOS) Unlimited Track Recorder, which enables musicians to capture and develop musical ideas as they happen, wherever they are. Battery-powered and completely self-contained, the SOS contains a high-quality stereo microphone and a built-in speaker for all-in-one recording and monitoring.

by Sandi MacLeod

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