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Welcome to the June 2010 edition of Keyboard Player which is now available to purchase and download.
Andrew Gilbert waxes lyrical in his review of Korg’s SV1 Stage Vintage Piano and highly recommends this to those who love those vintage sounds from the 50s onwards and want them all in one great keyboard. Read his in-depth review in this issue

Last month we reviewed the mid-range Casio AP-420 Celviano piano. This month Andrew Gilbert looks at the top-of-the-range AP-620. With around 250 sounds this impressive ‘arranger’ keyboard is well worth a look as it still falls firmly in budget territory.

Alicia’s Keys is, as the title suggests, is a virtual instrument sampled in the recording studio of this multi-platinum selling artiste and is used on all the tracks of her latest album ‘The Element Of Freedom’ so I guess it must be good. Tony Cliff certainly thinks so in his review in this issue.

Computer Music gets to grips with IK Multi-media’s ‘Amplitube 3’ a virtual guitar amp and FX modelling software and finds this incredibly versatile and wide-ranging software highly desirable. Congratulations to Andrew on this, his 100th article for Keyboard Player.

Both The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, two of the greatest albums of all time owe their sound and texture in some part to Alan Parsons, recording engineer on both recordings. In Key People this month he talks about his work with many famous artistes, his own creation, The Alan Parsons Project formed in 1976 and his current venture, a seven hour compilation series ‘The Art & Science of Sound Recording’.

With tuition book reviews and Mozart and Scott Joplin the features in Classnotes this issue, we hope you’ll enjoy the June edition of Keyboard Player. See you soon!