Central Music Company

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CME is the registered trademark of Central Music Company, a musical high-tech company founded in Beijing, China in 1993. Its main focus is consumer and professional digital music production equipment.^[1]

History

Central Music Company imports and distributes into the Chinese music production market many of the world's most well known music production brands including

CME is known primarily for its MIDI keyboard controllers. Their UF series MIDI keyboards were particularly ubiquitous in professional music creation circles in the early-to-mid 2000s, seen in demo videos of virtual instruments such as Propellerheads Reason and Arturia. The hammer-action of the keys on the 88-key UF8 keyboard were particularly popular. CME has branched out from only making MIDI keyboard controllers and also has made:

• ASX - an expansion card for the UF series and VX series keyboard controllers that made them stand-alone synthesizers
• Bitstream 3X - a Wave Idea MIDI desktop control surface
• Matrix K - a USB
  FireWire
  expansion
• Matrix X - an analog 5 channel mixer
• Matrix Z - a 4-channel analog headphone amplifier
• U-Key - a portable synthesizer
• UF series UF5, UF6, UF7, UF8 - MIDI keyboard controllers
• HUI
  control surface capabilities
• WIDI-XU - a wireless MIDI transmitter the size of a small USB flash drive.
• WIDI-X8 - a wireless MIDI system
• weighted keys
  on all smaller-size models

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