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Bax-shop has added another brand to its ever increasing product range: Roli. And quite a brand it is - with their latest innovations, they are certainly making music history. The Seaboard Rise and the Seaboard Grand Stage are both revolutionary products that are incredibly fun to play.

Breaking into the lighting industry isn't easy. All those big DMX tables use complicated software that's hard to understand. Fortunately, DMXsoft has the solution in the form of the SUSHI-DS. No, we're not talking about raw fish. We're talking about the Sunlite Universal Smart Handy Interface, a.k.a. SUSHI!

Fans of punk in general, and Tim Armstrong in particular, are in for a treat. Fender has created a new version of the Tim Armstrong Hellcat in a matte black finish. The neck has a natural finish that contrasts beautifully with the rest of the body. If you want one, you'll have to be quick though, because only 68 of these have been made!

Less is more, especially when it comes to cables; that's what Mackie must have thought when they came up with the CR4BT and CR5BT monitor sets, which allow you to stream audio via Bluetooth.

A subwoofer with an 18-inch speaker and a 1000-watt amplifier for 134 dB of bass; that must be heavy, right? You might be surprised to know that it weighs just 35.5 kg! Yes, that's right, you no longer have to worry about giving yourself a back injury every time you need to transport a serious subwoofer. The JBL EON618S is this subwoofer's name and making noise is its game!

With the new Strobe CWL and MH 6 Wash, Rush by Martin once again demonstrates why they're one of the top brands in professional lighting. Both of these powerhouses were designed with the user in mind, and as such they offer a healthy dose of functionality and are remarkably durable, but they're still easy to operate.

The Fender CD-140S Natural and the CD-140SE in Natural and Black now also come in a matte satin finish, in addition to the existing high-gloss models. The satin finish really allows the beautiful wood grains to stand out and the sound produced is a little more open. 

Surprise! While everyone was waiting with bated breath for an XDJ-2000, Pioneer pulled a fast one by introducing the new XDJ-700! It's basically a stripped-down version of the XDJ-1000, and Pioneer's answer to the demand for an affordable stand-alone tabletop player that measures up to other, more expensive players thanks to features such as Pro DJ Link and Rekordbox support. The XDJ-700 has a compact housing and comes with a separate stand that elevates it to the same height as a standard CDJ player or a matching DJM mixer.

A bigger little brother now completes the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol series! There were models with 25, 49 and 61 keys; now, we have the S88 with - you guessed it - 88 keys. It was only a matter of time before this happened. It's as though MIDI keyboards with 88 keys are slowly but surely making a comeback.

Zoom needs no introduction when it comes to affordable, mobile field recorders. The H1 series was an enormous hit. In the wake of this success, Zoom introduces the Matte Black and Red Edition versions of the H1 v2.