[Ken Fujimoto's Digital Audio LABORATORY] China is a good drum in China, and NUX, "MIDI Koto", etc.

Lastly, we will introduce the Roland agency for many years, and is now an ATV agency (CHINA RDEC Digital Music Education Group).The company is a company that has been developing a wide range of music classes in China while importing and selling Roland products.At the same time, a company that has been working as a Chinese manufacturer such as electronic pianos, electric drums, and guitar amplifiers.

According to Mr. 崧, he was the son of the company's president and worked in a Japanese financial institution until recently in Japan.It is a classroom. Classrooms such as violin and drums are also very popular, but Chinese koto is also very popular, and in terms of the number of instruments sold, it is the second largest after the piano. It is a market of about 400,000 units a year. "。Although it cannot be compared in general, the number of acoustic pianos of Yamaha and Kawai musical instruments is said to be 10,000 to 20,000 units a year, so I feel like I heard an amazing number.

The RDEC is now under development, and the Koto with MIDI has shown a prototype in this Music China.On the stage, this koto's demo performance was performed, and it was displayed on a screen like a video game, but this was a system that uses the MIDI signal.

"This koto was developed for education and practice, and the koto itself is a joint development with the largest koto manufacturer in China, and we are in charge of the MIDI part.In addition, we are looking for how to use it, and in the future we are considering the conversion of various Chinese ethnic instruments other than the koto. "

According to the engineer in charge of the development, Mr. Konowa, "I detect the performance operation of flipping, pushing, and shaking, so that it can be converted to a MIDI signal. System is similar to MIDI guitar.However, the major difference is that the sensor is put in the end of the string and the pressure and vibration that presses the string is detected. The instrument that senses this pushing force is in addition to the koto.Since there is almost no, we are making this point. We have another sensor on the left and right side so that the performance expression can be captured correctly. "

It is almost completed in terms of system, but it is currently under consideration when it will actually be commercialized and what kind of product will be used.By the way, the MIDI to be installed is only OUT, and it is not the current time to install IN.In this way, it seems that various electronic instruments born in China will appear in various ways.

As mentioned above, we have introduced only a small part of the exhibition of a huge amount of instruments held in Shanghai, China twice.It was really just a fragment, but I guess this lively Chinese situation was a little conveyed.I still have the impression that the software market is developing, but given that Chinese software sound source manufacturers are increasing rapidly, I have a feeling that it will change significantly in the last few years.Regardless of whether to go to Music China every year in the future, I would like to continue to watch the situation in China.