I’m kinda disappointed with everyone this year, there’s really nothing that blew me away or was even very interesting announced this week at NAMM.
Winter NAMM 2010 started this past Thursday and as I sat in my pajama pants reading about all the new product announcements as they come in through RSS, I can’t help but feel underwhelmed by what’s coming out. Nevertheless here are some of the more notable items announced this week.
MOTU ZBox – A $40 device to improve your ITB guitar sounds via impedance balancing
New Waves plugz – New Chris Lord-Alge, Eddie Kramer and Jack Joseph Puig signature plugins (no pics yet)
Muse/Peavey Musebox – Some competition to AVID’s Eleven Rack a live guitar processor that runs VSTs
Ableton/Akai APC20 – A smaller version/expansion of the very cool Ableton controller APC40
AVID Pro Tools Virtual Instrument Expansion Pack – The biggest disappointment of the show, this is all AVID had to announce and it’s the type of update to VIs that should have been free.
IK Multimedia Amplitube 3 – Lots of new stuff in this one
Tonehammer Microhammer sample packs – Tonehammer makes THE COOLEST sample packs, now they’re cheaper but smaller
Akai MPD18 – compact pad controller
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Hey Jon
You’ll get my full report shortly of course…but yes it seems to be a show of status quo, small improvements and no shows (the Avid booth is barely a booth, no shows from Propellerheads/Reason or Native Instruments and a number of others…)
That being said, a good reminder that we have to stick to basics and not get caught up with the next big thing.
E-mail me if you want me to check anything out or snap a pic or two. I’ve got a few more hours.
Jason
JJP, CLA, EK plugs = Not new. It seems a lot of the cool stuff, or as much as there was, was announced at AES back in October. Oh well.
These new waves ones are in the style of the Maserati ones, not specific hardware clones, like previous CLA and JJP ones, but new tools for fast shaping.
I’ll never be able to afford them so best not to even look that way.