3 Likes
Making music while sitting before open fridge? Sounds revolutionary to me 
.
2 Likes
I, too, am interested In Akai products.
I bought a MPC live 2 in december and I am slowly getting head round the machine and its software.
There are are very many good things but there are obviously very many limitations and gaps. Most are obviously artificial and unnecessary and built-in for capitalist reasons and not hardware limitations (even though these exist -again for capitalist reasons-4GB ram costs peanuts over 2GB in a £1000 machine).
The endless slight improvement of upgrade by all manufacturers must surely be coming to its end-build the best machine possible and we will support you with a big chunk of our paychecks-play us for fools and we will be investing in companies that give us the best without the BS.
I am looking forward to MPC 3.0 software-hopefully the limitations will be moved. Akai will realise they have a market dominating machine that could/should be a sound creation giant and focus less on drip feeding slight improvements to a stunted sampler that they could have long since exceeded.
1 Like
I am hoping for volca drum 2 from korg.
MPC mini from akai was rumoured and I would be interested in that product probably.
The most curious I am about is elektron. I wonder if they will show a new hardware or maybe some big updates for the current line of products…
Also arturia megafreak maybe? Lol
2 Likes
Agreed. I fear that MPC 3.0 will go further in “paid plugins” direction.
2 Likes
Interested to see where Korg goes with their product lines. They’ve indicated they’ve been facing some parts shortages, so there could be spare manufacturing capacity for other product configurations from them.
ADDED : KORG is at all three shows this year !
Arturia has so much excellent engineering capability, they definitely could create a surprise this spring.
How about Roland ? I haven’t kept up, but aren’t there signs of something else to go with the SH-4d ?
ADDED : Roland is at NAMM but it is only by private arranged meeting.
It seems pretty obvious that they’ll go VST. What classic synths do they have left to VSTize?
There was that prototype-looking thing, yeah. I think I saw someone say that it was most likely an engineering student’s thesis project or an intern’s project or something similar. I’m super curious about it though.
1 Like
It’s obviously going to be the Octatrack Mk3. Everyone knows that.
1 Like
It better be! If the fridge could hold my beats as well as my beer, then things are happening.
3 Likes
Present or not at booths & shows, I hope to hear product news from:
- Roland
- AkaiPro
- Native Instruments
- Elektron
Is Yamaha not doing synths like in the past anymore?
I’d like Polyend to bust out some improvements to the Play. I think they’ve gone as far as they can with the Tracker (love that machine) but the Play is in dire need of some improvements (trying to love it but it’s tough). Maybe a new Red Panda pedal. Would love for TE to get this op-1 field working with more audio interfaces maybe.
2 Likes
Digitone Keys MkII, with some tweaks to accommodate the upcoming DN 1.50 firmware update.
8 Likes
They just did a hardware improvement to the MODX , the MODX+. They’re not out of the HW business, though it’s not like the old days.
ADDED : ( March '23 ) Yamaha has just unveiled their CK line of keyboards, with a combination of the CP and YC features. This also might make a nice form factor for an AN-X product.
ADDED : Yamaha will be at Superbooth, NAMM, and SFF. A triple play !
3 Likes
I am hoping to see something from Moog. It has been around 9 years since the Sub 37 (now Subsequent 37) was introduced, so I wonder when we will see a successor there.
I also think they should do something in between the Subs/Matriarch and the Moog One. There is such a gap in the market price there for them. They should do a 4-5 voice poly synth that is priced a little more affordably than the One. Paired down with only one filter and less FX. Smaller, and easier to travel with. Similar to Sub line in usability, but a poly version.
4 Likes
Kodamo will be at SFF at a minimum. They have three products that they have shown :
Infini
Mask 1
Bitmasker
… plus there was talk at one point of an Essence FM Keyboard though that seems gone. ( ? )
So it’s time for them to announce another new product !
ADDED : Mask 1 is available now, see my post on that.
Before the Play was released people at the time (and claiming to be in the know) said Polyend were working on a couple of new boxes.
It would be interesting if they released a second box which was a synth module that you’d sequence from the Play and use it’s 8 midi channels. 8 part multitimbral sounds like a stretch but maybe 4? Could even sample and transfer to Play (although that might cannibalise Tracker).
The Play launch was bungled. They’d teased too long and everyone filled in the gaps with dream product ideas and then ultimately disappointed with the reveal. Perhaps this time they’re keeping quiet and have something up their sleeve…
1 Like
I’ve been considering a field recorder for a while now and I’m hoping for a 32b field recorder in Zoom’s lineup similar to the Tascam Portacapture X6. I couldn’t care less about a fancy color display and would gladly trade that for xlr combo jacks.
1 Like
PWM who currently sells the Malevolent is likely going to show a new DCO based synth at Superbooth. They gave hints about it at SB last year to Nick Batt, playing some sounds from a roughed in prototype. They also have a third synth in mind, so perhaps there could be some word on that to.
1 Like
…elektron are more focussed on the american market lately…their berlin days are over…
until now, no proof of life from sweden when it comes to superbooth…
guess they’re makin’ it a habit to announce and show up late to european parties…
boutique became global brand…
after refreshing/reinventing their dtakt in such an unexpeted fashion and brought it back on the map of products to sell brandnew en masse again for all retailers, least thing we can now hope to come, is some firmware update for the stakt…
i don’t see any signs for a truu new product…
and it would not be clever marketing, if they woud go for that truu new ot must do now, due to the fact, they just pimped the dtakt that close to same terretory…
and let’s not forget…sale shows are a luxury item for all at least halfway established companies these days, in the age of information, where all it needs to announce ur next new product and catch a good amount of attention and tracktion by “just” coordinating to hand it out to the right selction of “influencers” at some certain timeframe…
never the less, see u at superbooth 23…
and hey, @treat …this year u’ll find the time and we finally go together …
and @Dataline …let’s make it first day again…
1 Like