NAMM 2010

Let's track the new NAMM gear in this thread!

Access will be a releasing a new OS for the TI line (TI1 and TI2 models) that appears to have a bunch more features (they haven't released a list of features, but there is an mp3 on their homepage that shows off new sounds)

i'll be attending this year (for the first time in 4 years i won't have to be working, just checking out new gear).

i'll be visiting the usual suspects' booths, but if there's something specific anyone wants info on, let me know.

korg is supposed to have something new

yamaha is supposed to have a new "synth"

dave smith instruments are announcing something new as well, not an old product rehash.

clavia has the nord piano thing.

i would be interested if any synth companies have actually put out a synth that harnesses unused synthesis technology in hardware like something that focuses on granular, physical modeling or additive synthesis. I'm really bored of subtractive synths.

  On 1/9/2010 at 9:56 PM, Awepittance said:

i would be interested if any synth companies have actually put out a synth that harnesses unused synthesis technology in hardware like something that focuses on granular, physical modeling or additive synthesis. I'm really bored of subtractive synths.

Yeah I can dig it. Should be soon now. The company has to have some balls though.

it seems like hardware is starting to be influenced by software rather than from real instruments as in the past, like with sequencers like this that seem to take some ideas from ableton. so yeah, how bout a modular synth groovebox that doesn't look as terrible as the one that came out last year.

Just got done listening to the sonic state pre-namm podcast.

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2010/01/07/sonic-talk-160-the-70-year-old-synth-and-namm/

BIG announcement from Korg.

2 new things from gforce software!

I hope korg finally got with the program and updated the electribes, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I hope one of the two gforce announcements is Imposcar 2 which has been talked about for ages now.

  On 1/9/2010 at 11:52 PM, spraaaa said:

so yeah, how bout a modular synth groovebox that doesn't look as terrible as the one that came out last year.

Modular synth groovebox that was released last year?

it had wood paneling, a color screen in the middle, and the modular part was just basically letting you interchange different analog modeling components. there was some demo video where it took 3 minutes to start up. basically I'd like to see a modular groovebox not at all like that.

sounds interesting, do you know what company made it?

i would love to see some companies making eurorack or frac rack modular synth modules that are not analog but perform digital functions that most old school analog synths were not capable of.

examples of this are the Blacet Binary Zone and Blacet mini Wave. i've been hearing rumors of generative style sequences being turned into modules, but have seen nothing yet.

would also be nice to to see something try to compete with the Machinedrum or employ a very hard worked on synthesis engine for doing mainly drums. It's been a long time since any company really focused on this.

the korg 'wavedrum' seems to be one of the only products made by a mainstream company that is designed for percussion synthesis

also it's about time somebody made a Drumkat turbo style controller that costs around $500 or at least than $1000, Just a touch pad percussion based midi controller that can clock to a tempo and auto quantize in realtime and do automatic and variable roll and flam functions. Drumkat's are already capable of this but the interface on it is very outdated and they are over $1000

holy shit speak of the devil - ,spraaa the company that makes the 'ableton style' sequencer you describe also makes this tasty looking eurorack module -

seems like it's using some digital chips to do weird sequencing

  On 1/10/2010 at 8:28 AM, Awepittance said:

holy shit speak of the devil - ,spraaa the company that makes the 'ableton style' sequencer you describe also makes this tasty looking eurorack module -

 

 

seems like it's using some digital chips to do weird sequencing

that thing is wicked. I'd love to tool around with it a bit from the vids I saw.

  On 1/10/2010 at 7:36 AM, spraaaa said:

it had wood paneling, a color screen in the middle, and the modular part was just basically letting you interchange different analog modeling components. there was some demo video where it took 3 minutes to start up. basically I'd like to see a modular groovebox not at all like that.

I think you're thinking of the arturia origin?

  On 1/10/2010 at 7:36 AM, spraaaa said:

it had wood paneling, a color screen in the middle, and the modular part was just basically letting you interchange different analog modeling components. there was some demo video where it took 3 minutes to start up. basically I'd like to see a modular groovebox not at all like that.

the aruria origin?

is there going to be any digital sequencers in the same vein as the rm1x/rs7000? that's what i care about

  On 1/10/2010 at 2:24 PM, BCM said:

  On 1/10/2010 at 7:36 AM, spraaaa said:

it had wood paneling, a color screen in the middle, and the modular part was just basically letting you interchange different analog modeling components. there was some demo video where it took 3 minutes to start up. basically I'd like to see a modular groovebox not at all like that.

 

the aruria origin?

 

Yeah if that's what you are talking about it's not a groovebox, arturia made it (which is meh imo), and it's absurdly expensive! But yeah i kinda like the idea of hardware controllers for specific software.

The point of a "groove box" is typically to keep everything within the unit, and features many performance enhancing options.

With a good enough groovebox (like the spektralis or something) you could kind of accomplish a modular groovebox using MOTU Volta.

The origin is a stand alone synth

yeah but you couldn't record a whole track in there like you can with the electribes/spektralis.

There *is* a sequencer in it. But it's just an all in one synth. Which is fine.

the origin might be what I was thinking, just remember being disappointed to read that it was somehow "modular" and then finding out that it's really more like "choose your favorite style of filter" without letting you route things in weird ways. honestly I think it would be really cool not to have a screen or patching cables and have a modular synth/sequencer in an electribe kind of interface.

  On 1/10/2010 at 8:21 AM, Awepittance said:

i've been hearing rumors of generative style sequences being turned into modules, but have seen nothing yet.

 

would also be nice to to see something try to compete with the Machinedrum or employ a very hard worked on synthesis engine for doing mainly drums.

these would be cool. I'd like some cheapness competitors for the elektron stuff. I wonder if there's really enough of a standard for how people would want to do generative sequencing for something like that to sell though?

last thought on sequencers: more of them should look like this.

  On 1/10/2010 at 10:27 PM, spraaaa said:

honestly I think it would be really cool not to have a screen or patching cables and have a modular synth/sequencer in an electribe kind of interface.

Indeed that would be cool.

the new mellotron looks sexy http://www.mellotron.com/digital-mellotron.html

  On 1/11/2010 at 2:27 AM, mrx said:

the new mellotron looks sexy http://www.mellotron.com/digital-mellotron.html

Sure does!

Only think that irks me is they have two filthy city names glowing - Los Angeles and Stockholm.

Might have been cool if they let you customize the text :)

wow i haven't heard about the new mellotron until now. i haven't read up on it, but what's digital about it? digital sampler? if so why the FUCK is it so huge? is unnecessary space just to continue on the tradition or something, because i think that's a bit ridiculous for 2010.

digital mellotron, doesn't that defeat the purpose?

unless it's digital control of tapes?

interesting...

saw this today and thought of this thread.