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Yamaha Professional Audio Technology Does Double Duty at Winter NAMM 2020

Yamaha Pro Audio Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation and Collaboration With Our Customers

As we look back on our full 50 years since developing Yamaha’s very first professional audio product in 1969, we’d like to take this occasion to thank all of our customers—from end-users and dealers, to consultants and installers— for choosing our products, and Yamaha Pro Audio in general as a partner for your musical journey.

Rockin’ 1000 That’s Live Grows Again With Yamaha RIVAGE PM series

Every October for the past five years, over a thousand musicians have gathered together in Italy to perform as the ‘biggest rock band in the world’. Yamaha digital mixing has featured each time, with a RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing system making its debut in 2018. This year the event moved to Linate Airport, Milan, where a RIVAGE PM7 system was added for the first time.

History Meets Modernity as Prague Hosts Yamaha’s 2019 System Designers Conference

The past, present and future of professional sound recently met in the Czech Republic, as over 300 sound industry professionals from 40 countries headed for the capital Prague, host city for Yamaha’s annual System Designers Conference.

Yamaha Intermediate Baritone Saxophone Ergonomically Accessible to More Students

Derek Smalls: Stinkin’ Up The Great Indoors With Yamaha

Famed for his struggles with stage props, attempts to smuggle vegetables through airport security and a Big Bottom, former Spinal Tap bass guitarist Derek Smalls recently delighted fans by inviting them to ‘rock til you sit’ at Lukewarm Water Live, a one date tour of the US West Coast. Increasing age may have brought Derek a subtle change of hair colour but, with a Yamaha RIVAGE PM7 digital mixing system on monitors, he delivered the full majesty of rock.