I just got back from MIAC 2008 in Toronto. The Revolution Audio crew was on a mission to meet all our reps and product specialists, it’s great having them all in one place.
There honestly wasn’t anything too exciting, no groundbreaking announcements like they do at NAMM or Messe, but I did come away with some good secrets, which I’m not telling!
Probably the most interesting new gear was from the new Yamaha and Steinberg partnership. The CC121 control surface for Cubase, and the two new interfaces which integrate software control and DSP processing, the single DSP MR816 X, and the dual DSP MR816 CSX. The MR816 X is an 8 channel firewire interface with a dsp Rev-X reverb plugin. The CSX is even better because you get 8 channels of EQ and Compression + the reverb with zero latency and NO CPU USAGE. Cubase 4.5 is required. You all know how I hate Cubase so it’s pretty bad when the only thing I get excited about is an interface made for Cubase.
I got a demonstration of the SSL Matrix console/control surface, which is pretty awesome and is only ~$25,000.
Native instruments has nothing new, I did get a t-shirt and mouse pad though, I’ll forgive them.
I had a long conversation about Sonar with Robin from Roland Canada. I think it’s pretty well known that Sonar 8 is coming soon, I’m not going to say what comes with it yet. I also bombarded Robin with questions and complaints about Sonar and software/plugin bugs in general. Robin’s the guy in most of the Sonar videos on YouTube.
Nothing new from M-Audio or Digidesign, got a nice M-Audio T-shirt.
Michael Angelo Batio was there endorsing Dean Guitars, click here for a short vid of that.
I survived my first tradeshow. There’s one more day so if you’re in the area tomorrow go check it out!
Also Interesting:
Michael Angelo Batio is absolutely killer. The first time I saw clips of him I almost thought it was fake!