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Creative Flash<br />
A great “first serious keyboard,”<br />
Yamaha’s PSR-S650 boasts<br />
FlashROM Expansion and offers<br />
MegaVoice-enhanced styles found<br />
on higher-end Yamaha arrangers. The<br />
portable digital keyboard can load sample<br />
data such as voices and drums, and<br />
makes them instantly available in FlashROM<br />
without reloading at each power-up. It can store up to 16<br />
MB of sample data, which is great for augmenting the existing<br />
set of 864 internal sounds with your own. The keyboard<br />
also offers 181 built-in styles, and instrument voices such<br />
as guitars and basses sound authentic using articulation<br />
previously not playable from a keyboard. Custom tunings<br />
(such as Arabic or Pythagorean) are available using the nine<br />
preset scales—or create your own. MSRP: $649.<br />
Ordering info: yamaha.com/keyboards<br />
Clarinet Mastery<br />
The Masters series of clarinet<br />
mouthpieces from Vandoren represents<br />
an entirely new approach<br />
to the relationship between tip<br />
opening and facing length, and<br />
introduces some innovative<br />
chamber-design adjustments.<br />
Easy-blowing and responsive<br />
with beautiful tone color across<br />
a range of reed strengths, the<br />
Masters mouthpiece series<br />
includes two models—the CL4<br />
and CL5—crowned with the<br />
company’s MO ligature.<br />
Ordering info: dansr.com<br />
Smart ’Phones<br />
Now you can customize<br />
your personal listening<br />
experience with four different<br />
versions of InTune<br />
earphones, each optimized<br />
to play specific genres of<br />
music. Want to hear more of<br />
your favorite acoustic instruments<br />
this season Try the<br />
Jazz/Classical InTune. Do<br />
guitar solos help raise your<br />
holiday spirits Check out<br />
the Rock/Blues/Country In-<br />
Tune. Other models include<br />
Rap/Hip Hop and Pop/Easy<br />
Listening. Each comes with<br />
three different ear cushion<br />
sizes. MSRP: $24.99.<br />
Ordering info: fuseplusyou.com<br />
Portable Prowess<br />
Zoom’s H2n portable<br />
recorder is stuffed with pro<br />
recording features. It has<br />
five studio-quality microphones<br />
onboard and four<br />
recording modes: mid-side<br />
stereo, 90-degree X/Y stereo,<br />
two-channel surround<br />
and four-channel surround.<br />
The recorder’s 1.8-inch<br />
backlit LCD display provides<br />
clear visual monitoring,<br />
and a built-in reference<br />
speaker lets you play your<br />
recordings. MSRP: $199.<br />
Ordering info: zoom.co.jp<br />
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