The 2018 NAMM Show, held Jan 25-28, 2018 in Anaheim, CA, is one of the largest music industry events in the world. Over 1,500 companies introduce new music gear at the show, which is attended by about 100,000 people.
Synthtopia’s coverage of the 2018 NAMM Show is sponsored by Pittsburgh Modular & Yamaha.
You can get the latest news on synths and electronic music gear introduced at NAMM below:
At the 2018 NAMM Show, Universal Audio introduced the Arrow Thunderbolt 3 audio interface for Mac and Windows, which, like their Apollo interfaces, features on-board effects processing. … Read More Universal Audio Intros Arrow Desktop Audio Interface At The 2018 NAMM Show
The STG/Soundlabs Envelope Generator is available in Eurorack and ‘man-size’ 5U formats, and offers three EG models, outputs two shapes simultaneously, offers four modes of operation, four time scales & tempo sync.… Read More STG/Soundlabs Debuts “World’s Most Advanced Envelope Generator”
At the 2018 NAMM Show, Yamaha announced a free tool for Montage owners that makes it easy to sample just about anything and make your samples playable on the Montage.… Read More SampleRobot Pro Montage Edition Makes Sampling Anything Easy
Here’s a a review and hands-on demo of the new Elektron Digitone synthesizer.… Read More Elektron Digitone Review & Hands-On Demo
The Waldorf Streichfett Keyboard (STVC) is a string synthesizer and vocoder based on the company’s popular Streichfett String Synthesizer. … Read More Waldorf STVC String Synthesizer & Vocoder At NAMM 2018
ALEX is a scalable hardware system with up to 16 stereo tracks, four displays, and an easy-to-use interface. … Read More DASZ ALEX Multitrack Music Production System Hands-On Demo
Taiho Yamada discusses the deep synthesis capabilities of Waverazor, their approach to making the options manageable and demonstrates how the new patch editing features work. … Read More Waverazor Patch Editor Gives You Control Over 12,000 Synth Parameters
At the 2018 NAMM Show, we talked with Novation’s Enrique Martinez about how he was using a Circuit Mono Station to control his Eurorack modular synthesizer. … Read More How To Control A Eurorack Modular With A Novation Circuit Mono Station
The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) has officially announced the ratification of a new extension to MIDI, MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE).… Read More MIDI Manufacturers Association Makes MPE Specification Official
At the 2018 NAMM Show, Cherry Audio introduced Voltage Modular, a new software modular synthesizer platform. … Read More Cherry Audio Intros Voltage Modular Software Synthesizer
