Has your head cooled from all which stone headlines this morning? Nope? Well, we’d hatred to rile you up again, but Mad Catz — right away the central provider of all Rock Band 3 apparatus — has priced its latest arms depot for a upcoming stroke reconstruction pretension. There’s additionally a few brand-new details upon each instrument, so but further ado:Wireless Keyboard: That MIDI port most of you speckled is for outlay, vouchsafing you plug a two-octave (C3 to C5) velocity-sensitive keytar directly into MIDI sequencers for non-gaming use. It’ll set you behind $80, with an discretionary mount to be sold separately (no price since alongside a game’s launch. Buying the set of keys / diversion gold will be $130, or about $10 off individual purchases. Oh, and if you wish to feel the bit some-more techno, this puppy can be used as a guitar / drum input.MIDI PRO-Adapter: Want to make use of your own keyboard or electronic drum set? Here’s the go-between you need, from MIDI to USB to console, and it sports the D-pad and alternative required gamepad buttons as good as velocity sensitivity composition controls. Asking cost is $40.Pro Cymbals Expansion kit: three cymbals, assumingly rejiggered from RB2’s offerings for quieter play as well as the pre-defined 10 degree point of view. It’s $40 for this hi-hat, pile-up, as well as float pack.Wireless Fender Mustang Pro Guitar Controller: Not the Squier hybrid you saw, this a single essentially sports a multitude of buttons for any string, travelling 17 frets (102 buttons in all). Actual strings have been used for a plucking and strumming, as well as here’s something engaging — the axe has a MIDI outlay for program sequencers. This behemoth is $150, or about 1.5 Benjamins in your internal currency.Pictures of each instrument — as well as a yet-to-be-priced Squier — in a art studio next, as good as the few shade caps of Pro mode so you can get an thought how just it’ll “scold you” upon proper Bohemian Rhapsody finger picking. Rock Band 3 hardware and screenshots

Show full PR textMad Catz® Announces New Range of Official Rock Band 3 Instruments and Accessories

Range to Include Wireless Keyboard Controller, Wireless Fender™ Mustang™ PRO-Guitar™ Controller, PRO-Cymbals™ Expansion Kit & MIDI PRO-Adapter™

San Diego, June 11. 2010

Mad Catz® Interactive, Inc. (“Mad Catz” or “the Company”) (AMEX/TSX: MCZ), the heading third-party interactive entertainment appendage provider currently voiced a brand-new range of central Rock Band™3 instruments as well as accessories.

Designed in conjunction with Harmonix, the world’s premier song video diversion developer, and MTV Games, the part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: AROUND, VIA.B), a new range of instruments as well as accessories have been expected to boat in time for a launch of a stirring Rock Band 3 video game arriving legal holiday deteriorate 2010.

Darren Richardson, President as well as Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz commented, “We hold which Rock Band 3 will infer to be a insubordinate pretension in a stroke song diversion genre and have been vehement to be operative with Harmonix and MTV Games to help move a diversion to life with this new line of products. The accessories we have been announcing today will concede gamers to correlate with music games similar to never before as well as when used alongside Rock Band 3, you hold they will set a brand-new customary in realism as well as flawlessness.”

Products approaching to boat as part of the operation embody:

·Rock Band 3 Wireless Keyboard Controller – Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 / Wii

Designed for make use of to one side with Rock Band 3, a Wireless Keyboard Controller has been crafted to resemble classic veteran keyboards as well as is playable upon a secure prosaic surface or whilst strapped over the player’s shoulder. Empowering gamers to take their delight of rhythm song gaming to a subsequent turn, the Wireless Keyboard Controller additionally functions as a MIDI set of keys, braggadocio a two-octave (C3 to C5) operation and non-weighted, velocity-sensitive key bed permitting gamers to take full value of a Rock Band Pro mode. The MIDI outlay connector provides harmony with MIDI software sequencers as well as hardware inclination whilst customary console-specific gaming controller buttons broach seamless console formation and the Wireless Keyboard Controller can also be used to play the lead guitar or bass tools of a game. An discretionary Keyboard Stand will be sold alone as well as is approaching to be available alongside a launch of Rock Band 3.
MSRP: $79.99

·Rock Band 3 Game & Wireless Keyboard Controller Bundle

Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 / Wii

Ideal for gamers who instruct to enjoy a holiday seasons hottest song pretension as well as latest instrument together, a bundle includes both the Rock Band 3 diversion and Wireless Keyboard Controller, representing a available and glorious worth squeeze for song fans everywhere.

MSRP: $129.99

·Rock Band 3 Wireless Fender Mustang PRO-Guitar Controller

Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 / Wii

Introducing a brand-new level of realism to a stroke song genre, the Wireless Fender Mustang PRO-GuitarController is written for use to one side with Rock Band 3, allowing gamers to fairly replicate the genuine guitar when personification Rock Band Pro mode in the diversion. Featuring 17 frets along the button-based neck, the Fender Mustang PRO-Guitar includes the 6-string strumming area that allows for dissimilar picking of any fibre as well as the touch-sensitive string box that allows players to mute or ‘cut-off’ records when pressed. In addition, a Fender Mustang PRO-Guitar operates as the fully organic MIDI guitar, with a MIDI outlay connector providing compatibility with MIDI software sequencers as well as hardware inclination whilst customary console-specific gaming controller buttons broach seamless console integration as well as navigation of the diversion menus. The Fender Mustang PRO-Guitar allows for left or right handed use as well as can additionally be used to play possibly lead or bass tools of a diversion in Rock Band Pro as well as standard game modes.

MSRP: $149.99

·Rock Band 3 Wireless PRO-Cymbals Expansion Kit – Universal

Compatible with all wireless Rock Band drum kits, a Wireless PRO-Cymbals Expansion Kit facilities three newly written Rock Band 3 cymbals that have been re-engineered for still operation. Fully supporting a Rock Band Pro mode where a cymbals paint Hi-Hat, Crash as well as Ride, the cymbals can additionally be used in customary diversion modes for all Rock Band program. Improved from a Rock Band™ 2 cymbals, a brand-new PRO-Cymbals exaggerate quieter tune with noise-dampening rubber covering a full aspect area of a cymbal. The PRO-Cymbals also underline extended responsiveness, essential when playing in Rock Band Pro mode. In addition, the redesigned Rock Band 3 cymbals now henceforth rest during a pre-defined 10° angle, improved positioned for accurate play. The PRO-Cymbals have been additionally accessible as partial of a Rock Band 3 Wireless Drum as well as Cymbal Kit (sold separately).

MSRP: $39.99

· Rock Band 3 MIDI PRO-Adapter – Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 / Wii

Designed for use to one side with Rock Band 3, theMIDI PRO-Adapter allows musicians to make use of their real MIDI keyboards or MIDI drum sets to play Rock Band 3. Plugging without delay into a console around USB, a MIDI PRO-Adapter functions as an interface in between the console as well as MIDI instrument, converting the MIDI messages into console controller interpretation which the game translates into upon screen action. The MIDI PRO-Adapter features the quickness supportive composition for MIDI drums written to revoke cross-talk during play. A full D-Pad as well as customary gaming controller buttons have been located on a PRO-Adapter to deliver seamless console integration and navigation of the game menus. Ships with a removable shave, allowing MIDI PRO-Adapter to be attached to a leather belt, or rest on the table tip or identical flat aspect.

MSRP: $39.99

To be formally voiced in due march, Mad Catz will be charity updated versions of a guitar as well as drum peripherals from before versions of Rock Band, as good as softened microphones in await of a Rock Band 3 outspoken peace feature.

Featuring an implausible 83-song setlist and access to distant some-more music than any alternative song video diversion, as good as innovative brand-new gameplay modes as well as instruments, Rock Band 3 will change the approach fans consider about and play song games. This subsequent iteration in a Rock Band platform has something new for everybody as well as additionally supports traditional Rock Band gameplay with players’ existent instruments. Developed by Harmonix, the world’s premier song videogame association, published by MTV Games, and distributed by distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), Rock Band 3 will boat concurrently worldwide this Holiday 2010 in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other territories for a Xbox 360® video diversion and party complement from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 mechanism entertainment complement, Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo, and Nintendo DS. Rock Band 3 will be concordant with all Rock Band as well as The Beatles: Rock Band peripherals, as well as many third-party instrument and microphone controllers. Mad Catz is a central marginal manufacturer as well as distributor for Rock Band 3 diversion controllers.

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