See these shipping boxes packed 20 feet high?

They are for all the gear that’s on display at the 2009 Winter NAMM Show. Synthtopia is on site to bring you the latest news about electronic music software and gear. 

Here are some of the highlights of what we saw on day 2 of the NAMM Show:

• Access updated its synth line with the Virus TI2 – and it’s a hottie.
• Native Instruments Maschine is all that.
• There are fewer boutique instrument makers displaying at NAMM this year – but there was still room for things like the Diabolical Devices TR707.
• Korg made a lot of incremental updates to its synth line

There were musicians everywhere showing off their chops, like Edgar Winter:

And, yes – there are still NAMM babes and musicians playing bizarre instruments, like the one-string banjo: