One of the most interesting introductions at NAMM this year wasn’t a synth or new control surface, but KRK’s ERGO - a digital room analysis and correction system.
ERGO analyzes and compensates for bad room acoustics, which can negatively effect your mixes.
The unit connects to a computer via Firewire when it is performing its room analysis, [...]

Steinberg and Yamaha have introduced a new MIDI controller for Cubase, the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller.
Features :

Advanced Integration controller knob with ‘point and control’ support: controls any visual Cubase 4 parameter, internal FX setting or VSTi parameter using mouse pointer selection
Instant plug and play with ‘Cubase Ready’ LED – no additional setup or parameter [...]

From our trip to Namm, we brought you video of Metasonix‘ Eric Barbour introducing his G-1000 23 tube amplifier Fucking Fucker guitar amp.
Eric wasn’t demoing the amp, though. Fortunately, the guys at Big City Music have posted a video that gives you a taste of what this thing can do:

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Analog Suicide’s Tara Busch talked to Peter Grenader and got the latest scoop on the Plan B modular synthesizer.

At the 2008 NAMM Show, Waldorf was showing this diminutive synth in a tiny booth in an obscure area of the show basement.
Not an auspicious display, but at least the Blofeld synth has a good pedigree.
The Blofeld engine delivers the same sound that so many Waldorf users worldwide love when they play their Pulse, Q, [...]

 

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The 2008 NAMM Show wasn’t a great year for new synth and electronic music gear……but it was a good year.
We’ve already mentioned tons of great new gear that we saw at NAMM in the last couple of weeks, but, following in the footsteps of last year’s modular analog synthgasm, here are our picks for 2008’s [...]

At the Winter NAMM Show, Edirol released another portable recording unit. The Edirol R-44 4-Channel Portable Recorder is a 2 lbs. device that offers professional recording options, up to 24-bit and 192kHz, and uses SDHC cards to store the audio recorded.
The Edirol R-44 features

4 channels
XLR (with phantom power) & balanced/unbalanced TRS combo inputs
digital RCA and [...]

NAMM Show Update: MXL Microphones introduced a new USB mic - the USB.009-24 cardioid condenser microphone.
The MXL USB.009-24 features 24-bit A/D and D/A converters with up to 96 kHz recording capability. They recommend the mic for home recording, podcasting, as well as adding dialog to business presentations and other multimedia projects. They also recommend [...]

Winter NAMM Show Update: Roland intro’d the ARX-01 and ARX-02 expansion boards for the new Fantom-G series. Each ARX board is a synth in itself.
The ARX-01 Drums Expansion Board offers complete control of the elements of each drum, such as shell depth and muffling. Once each drum is crafted, you can further refine it with [...]

2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced Chris Hein Bass - 12.7 GB of bass sounds, some of which feature the powerful tones of a Music Man StingRay electric-bass-both picked and slapped; a LeFay fretless bass as well as the sounds of a unique upright bass.
For variety, the upright bass is played with three [...]

NAMM Show Update: Korg’s new Pa500 uses the same EDS (Enhanced Definition Synthesis) sound engine that powers the Korg M3 workstation, Pa800 and the new Pa2XPro.
For the songwriter, the Pa500 features both traditional “workstation” sequencing, as well as Korg’s time-saving Backing Sequencer that can record each Style part to its own track in a single [...]

At the Winter NAMM Show, Line 6 introduced the ToneCore DSP Developer Kit, a programmable stomp box effects development platform that lets anyone with a PC and an interest in Digital Signal Processing become a hardware effects developer and distributor.
For the first time, anyone with an interest in DSP software development can write, develop, test, [...]

2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: BOSS announced the GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor.
According to Boss, the GT-10’s DSP engine provides a more natural and musical response. It also offers Phrase Loop,and Parallel Effects Chain, while new USB audio/MIDI capabilities add flexibility.
The GT-10 also offers the COSM technology found in many BOSS and Roland products, including the [...]

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, BOSS announced the BR-900CD Version 2.
With Version 2., BOSS has added the GT-Pro quality COSM guitar amp model, a new drum-editing software application (downloadable from the web), and 500 minutes of recording time via 1GB Compact Flash.
The BR-900CD features an 8-track recorder with phantom-powered mic inputs and built-in CD [...]

At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, M-Audio announced Torq 1.5 DJ software.
New features in Torq 1.5 software include:

Tempo Anchors
Tempo Master
zplane élastique time stretching
send/receive MIDI clock
a new toolbar and a variety of workflow enhancements

The software’s new Tempo Anchors allow users to set the phase grid exactly on the beats of the song, even if the song [...]