NAMM 2018 ·
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As every year, the Winter NAMM show will see reams of new products, technologies and services launched. We’re collating all the latest news from Anaheim, California about the freshest music and audio gear. This year, the show is being held from 25 to 28 January.
With Musikmesse becoming less interesting for many industry onlookers, Winter NAMM has become the single most important trade show for our industry. Last year, we had unprecedented interest in our NAMM coverage in terms of the traffic coming to our site from all over the world. That tells us that you, our readers, are just as glued to developments in Anaheim as we are. And we are more than happy to oblige. After all, we can’t get enough of this stuff, either. Here are our top stories:
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It looks like Way Huge are downsizing for 2018 in a bid to help you cram more effects pedals onto your pedalboard. The Russian Pickle, Blue Hippo and Aqua Puss all now available way small!
SSF was showing off the modules they hope to release this year including a complete semi-modular Eurorack synth voice called Bantam, the Muton 8 channel VCA, Direct Rx envelope follower and Zero Point VCO.
Could this be the new guitar of the show? The whole guitar world knew it was imminent and we have a few sneak leaked photos of it here. Check out the new Suhr Aura Singlecut...
AUDIO
In addition to debuting its latest and greatest AD/DA converter with the new expansion card for the Symphony Mk II flagship interface, Apogee revealed its all-new DualPath FX Rack plug-ins...
German pro audio brand SPL hit NAMM 2018 hard with three pieces of expensive, ostentatious hardware for the most well-versed in the dark arts of mixing and mastering out there...
Legendary German brand Neumann hits NAMM 2018 with a reissue of its classic U 67 tube condenser microphone built to the original spec and, its maker says, "sonically identical" to the original.
At NAMM 2018, French audio mogul Focal unveiled its new flagship studio monitor - the Shape Twin - along with two pairs of monitoring headphones, the Listen Professional and Clear Professional...
The Manther Growl is a 26hp complete monosynth version of the desktop Manther. There's also a Quad Envelope, LFO and VCA, 4 channel drum synth and a Random module.
Squeezed into their tiny 2HP form factor Kick, Snare and Hat offer a lot of sound in a very small space. With CV control over each parameter and a mix of sound from expected and into the unknown.
A bunch of industry veterans have got together to produce what looks to be a virtual synthesis and sound processing environment. Voltage Modular will be revealed at NAMM. Here's our first glimpse!
Avid release the latest version of their industry standard DAW. Pro Tools 2018 leaves version numbers behind and starts getting innovative with retroactive recording, track presets, and instant online ...
The Korgasmatron appears to have evolved into the Morgasmatron while Planar and Rubicon get an updated version. Details are scarce at the moment but hopefully we'll have more for you soon.
Some of the nicest American built guitars have new finishes for 2018 and a couple of subtle tweaks to their lineup.
In a quick Instagrammed video I spotted a prototype of an as yet unnamed Malekko module featuring 4 channels of wavetable drum with multiple character controls and 8 steps of motion recording.
Elektron wanted to make FM easy-to-use and awesome to manipulate and with the 8-voice, sequencer infused Digitone and it's subtractive synthesis signal path you've never had so much fun with digital synthesis.
Casio dash our hopes for a Phase Distortion synthesizer but instead give us a cool portable keyboard with 600 sounds, 195 rhythms, 6 track recording and a monstrous sound engine.
