NAMM 2018 is near. What do you wish for? Your predictions?

megamarkd · Post by **megamarkd** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 1:03 pm

Broadwave wrote:My prediction for NAMM 2018, is that NAMM 2019 might be a bit more exciting.

There is heaps that seem to have been overlooked. There's a new Pittsburgh Modular stand-alone, Malekko Heavy Industries Manther and Doepfer have a new Dark Energy, for a start. All of which are exciting to me. The Manther sounds amazing for a single osc monosynth.

Then if you are into modulars, the list is over two arm lengths long. And considering Arturia is now dealing eurocrack cases, it's actually rather exciting if you consider how putting completely compatible eurocrack gateways into chainstores* means by this time next year there will be many many more people here with a skiff loaded up with modules they are interconnecting their MS-20 minis and stuff with.

*Another company tried the same stunt, but made it so only their modules would work in their skiff by not adhering to eurocrack power standards.

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:42 pm

Sharp wrote:
D575 wrote:https://www.gearnews.com/namm-2018-futu ... prototype/
Looks amazing. As a kid this is exactly what I hoped workstations in the future would look like.

Regards
Sharp.

As great as ot looks.. a few programmable pads and encoders would definately improve the usabillity... and there is room enough for these between keys and screen..

Post by **Sharp** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:37 pm

I prefer the design as it stands. I've never found a need for hardware controls when using any of my iPad soft synths. I find clever Touch Screen GUI design far faster and more intuitive than reaching for controllers.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards
Sharp.

D575 · Post by **D575** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:55 am

And a little more infomation https://youtu.be/LVdYfInpZ7w

D575 · Post by **D575** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:06 am

With reference why we have not seen any follow up at namm 2018 https://www.gearnews.com/namm-2018-jaco ... c-6-still/ and to remind are selfs from last year to accompany Jacobs 2018 update https://youtu.be/RT608NU78CM

megamarkd · Post by **megamarkd** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:21 am

D575 wrote:And a little more infomation https://youtu.be/LVdYfInpZ7w

Wow, it reminds me of The Last Starfighter.

Okay so it's still proof-of-concept and the details on their site are out of date; the guy is saying they are running it on an i7 under Windows right now but want to develop a DSP for it.

The piano sounds nice enough.

Post by **Sharp** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:01 pm

Runs Kontakt.
Awsome....!!!! That alone would do me.

Sharp.

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:20 pm

Regarding the new KR-55 PRO (which sounds great), here's where I feel KORG missed a beat: the omission of MIDI and sync.
This would have opened up this box to a much wider range of audience.

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:40 pm

Sharp wrote:Runs Kontakt.
Awsome....!!!! That alone would do me.

Sharp.

Yes..would be great if they made it VST based..

But kontakt seems a placeholder as they want to develop an own sound engine...

Post by **Sharp** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:19 pm

I'll have to just build my own.

Sharp.

Broadwave · Post by **Broadwave** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:46 am

Sharp wrote:I prefer the design as it stands. I've never found a need for hardware controls when using any of my iPad soft synths. I find clever Touch Screen GUI design far faster and more intuitive than reaching for controllers.

I have to agree with you there... If only a commercial touchscreen that size was available. I've been using an HP23tm/Win 10 setup for interfacing with VSTs - It's just as good as hardware knobs, but it's all down to the touch interface.

Bloxpander is a nice all in one solution to host VSTs and FX. It's time Apple started using large touch interfaces.

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:07 am

...so that NAMM was a damp squid!

Matty_Boy · Post by **Matty_Boy** » Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:28 pm

No, but it was definitely a damp squib

Sam CA · Post by **Sam CA** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:40 am

Neymar wrote:Okay, I'll make this easy, everyone needs a new drum machine. And sampler.
Gclub

Here you can check the dates for Winter NAMM 2018!

https://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2018