Winter NAMM 2009 Round Up
So winter NAMM brought some new electronic music toys into the world, but for the most part I wasn’t really wowed. If you want a full round up I suggest heading over to CDM, where they do a fine job. This post is just about the stuff that I found interesting, and you may too.
Pictured above is the new MOTU BPM soft beat machine. That was the most interesting that came out of NAMM for me, and I will certainly be checking it out in the future.
Akai unleashed a fancy ableton live controller that is custom tailored for the software. Live 8 was also unveiled. I guess if i was into Ableton, I’d be a little more excited.
Native Instruments brought out Maschine, yet another drum machine. Its pretty cool though, it can work standalone or as a softsynth. NI also came out with the “Audio 4″ audio interface for Traktor, to which i immediately exclaimed “Big F’in Deal”
M-Audio now has an Axiom Pro line which to me just looks like an updated white Axiom. I already have a regular Axiom 25 and can’t figure out why this thing is better or worth more money. Maybe justifying details will come out soon?
And Finally, Jazzmutant updated the Lemur to v2 and announced price cuts. Don’t get excited though, its still way too expensive for us common folk. Let me put it this way, for the same price as a lemur, you could buy 8 iPod Touches, put Touch OSC on all of them, and buy an ice cream.
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