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Saturday, January 23, 2010

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Way Out Ware


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Jim Heintz of Way Out Ware

Jim showed my his iSample sampler / recorder / looper for the iPhone. It's currently available on iTunes here. He also brought us the TimewARP 2600 and Kick Axxe, both highly acclaimed emulations. iSample is very, very slick. This actually got me pretty excited. One of the things I am eagerly looking forward to is the new Apple tablet to be announced on the 26th. I spoke to Jim a bit about it and if it has the horsepower and capability he will be interested in developing for it. I can't wait to see what comes from him next.

Be sure to see this demo video.

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Radikal Technologies

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Radikal Technologies

Shot of Jörg Schaaf of Radikal Technologies playing his Spectralis 2 taken from the Noisebug booth next door. The Spectralis 2 is on fine sounding synth. I'll have some video of it at NAMM coming up in the next couple of days. I had a fun talk with Jörg. I love his synths, both the Spectralis line and the Quasimidi Polymorph which I own.

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Noisebug

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http://noisebug.net/
Booth included:
Analogue Solutions (Tom Carpenter)
Buchla and Associates (Don Buchla)
Moonmodular (Gert Jalass)

I met Gert Jalass and Don and Ezra Buchla briefly. All super nice. Gert gave me an overview of his Moonmodular system and I was given a brief overview of the Buchla 200e system.

Note the Analogue Solutions business card below. Click on the image and read it. It's an actual LFO! Apparently it will work if you build it.

Europa 2010 prototype and Leipzig below.




NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Waldorf


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I had an enjoyable talk with Stefan Stenzel.

I posted this in the comments, but thought I'd put it up here as well: I didn't ask when it would be available. I was more curious what led them to the Zarenbourg. Stefan said they wanted to do something new and there was just something about the immediacy of the interface. It is real and it is coming. The unit wasn't producing sound and some of the knobs were not working but you could get a feel for it. The effect lights have two levels of luminosity, dim if active and bright if selected. You can have any combination of the effects.

We also talked a little about previous Waldorf synths and Largo. I told him I'd love Largo on the upcoming Apple slate. :) We'll see...


NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Clavia / Nord Keyboards

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http://www.nordkeyboards.com


NAMM: CME

http://www.cme-pro.com

Images of the U-Key in pink and blue and the VX-60.

"CME professional will release U-Key - the first mobiltone keyboard of the world during winter NAMM 2006. It will fill the gap of the particular hardware for composing cell phone ring, which has the market of billions of dollar.

U-Key uses ultra thin full action semi-weighted keys and the total ply of U-Key is only 3.7cm, but the key feel of U-Key is as same as keyboards in standard ply. U-Key has build in high 64-polyphony high quality mobile phone sound module, and internal high fidelity speaker droved by digitally amplifier. U-Key also builds in many MIDI songs and accompaniment in different styles, including loop variation and chord change, which are elaborate made by professional musicians and can be sprung by U-Key's unique 'PadStyle'. All MIDI songs and styles can be downloaded from Internet and transferred into U-Key via USB. U-Key supplies a brand new Game mode, users could use this function and music books with U-Key to test their skill of performance, and students could learn many tips in this mode. U-Key is the first mobiltone keyboard that has build in muiti ethical scales of the world, and it will surprise you, no matter you want to play Arabian music of Asian music. U-CTRL is a brand new concept by CME, it provides the easiest way to communicate between controller and music software. You do not need to load template or presets, just press U-CTRL button and all the controllers for software you may use will be ready.

U-Key supplies more than 20 user-defined controllers in different types, including joystick, trigger pads, encoder for data entry, pedals. All controllers are programmable and all functions of U-Key can be quickly and easily setup by press certain keys. User can save their controller settings into U-Key and load at any time they want. U-Key has plug and plays USB MIDI driver for Windows XP / MAC OSX, and it can be powered via USB. With U-Key's line out, phone out and compact cubage, it's a wise idea to use U-Key for mobile composing on laptops.

U-Key will follow CME's persistent competitive price like their other products as well."

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Infinite Response

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http://www.infiniteresponse.com/

These were surprisingly nice keyboard controllers. Note these have polyphonic aftertouch. This is the only new keyboard I am aware of that has this.

Update: video of it folding added below.




YouTube via InfiniteResponse

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: John Bowen Synth Design

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http://johnbowen.com/

Remember to click on the All Sizes link followed by Original Size for the super sized sized shots.

I need to give a special thanks to John Bowen for hosting my NAMM pass this year. Thank you John! Carbon111 and Bernard were showing the Solaris at the booth.


NAMM: Moog Taurus 3, Little Phatty and Moogerfoogers


http://www.moogmusic.com/

Three shots from the Moog booth at Winter NAMM. Click on the images for the full size shots.

I spent most of my time at the booth talking to Michelle Moog-Koussa of the Bob Moog Foundation, Chris Stack of Moog Music, Amin Bhatia, Larry Fast, and Eric Norlander. All great people.

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010: Dave Smith Instruments

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Two prototype Mopho Keyboards. One in yellow and one in black. Which do you prefer? Vote below the image of the man behind the machine, Dave Smith.

http://davesmithinstruments.com

I had a short but nice conversation with Dave Smith. He is so down to earth!





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