Synthfest France starts in a little over three days. New announcements are on the way.
Go ahead and post anything more on NAMM.
Looking forward to it. NAMM felt a bit lackluster, but the Intellijel Cascadia wins for me.
Edit: although I don’t even know if they were at NAMM, or if that was just a NAMM week announcement.
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They were not.
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There is an interview with Dave Rossum done by Sonic State at NAMM.
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Drum Circle two days ago 
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I put a thread up for the Recursion Studio video synthesizer from Entropy & Sons.
They are going to ship this in June.
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Naam was totally lackluster for synths I think. I kind of feel sorry for the synth people (nick batt, various synth youtubers) that made the trip down there. I guess they might have had had fun hanging out with each other, but otherwise it seemed like a waste.
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I assume for them it’s as much about networking and hanging out as it is the gear, but if they went primarily for the synths, yeah I imagine they’re disappointed.
I think it was a bad move to hold it in April, especially with Superbooth just a few weeks away now. It worked better in January.
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did anyone see any new class-compliant/USB audio interface multichannel mixers drop (not including those new Yamahas)? something in the Tascam Series XX class?
These are three very different shows, as i wrote earlier. Last year Superbooth tried SOOPERgrail, their guitar show. I’ve not heard about it this year. I don’t think any of the three should be compared. They each do their thing, no shame in that.
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Sure, but they don’t have all do their thing just weeks apart. And there are plenty of companies that will plan to be at all three. Spread that shit out.
So i knoticed there is a very small Do-It-Yourselfer, showing at SFF. The operation is called Heritage Synths and they will be showing a 70s-ish patching synth that is running on Pure-Data. Looks like a good concept.
“First member of the family”, sounds to me this is intended to be a product someday.
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Some chance to that, but there is a lot of show activity this year in general, with a relaxation on face to face meetings. This thread could probably just keep going.
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This year I had such bad timing. Got invited to NAMM from a company that provides certain components for my synth modules. I’ve never actually been asked before. (Was asked to go to NAB a few times.) I have a trip too close, so can’t go 
Seems like it would be a good year though. Lots of cool new things.
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Pretty sure there was another. I will remember if someone else doesn’t.
Also related and not mentioned was the IK Multimedia AXE audio interface, and also that high end 128 connection, 64 x 64 analog switch device, by a Canadian company. I can recall the name if anyone cares. ADDED : Flock Audio PATCH VT.
ADDED BTW : I’ve seen it being suggested the Axe I/O One is a best in show. It’s more a guitar sort of show so maybe.
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Neumann has there first audio interface, and it is premium. The MT48.
Pretty sure there is at least one more.
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Reminds me of my merging Anubis. I’m sure it’s the same guts inside
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I looked at it very closely and it looks exactly like the Anubis. I think you are right, probably exactly the same with a different color and logo. Marketing is so weird.
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NAMM’s a industry event, it’s where a lot of the distribution & store deals for the year are made, where as SB is a public focused convention, so one doesn’t affect the other.
NAMM’s been slowly dying for years as music store chains collapse & manufacturers realise direct distribution ramps their income & digital launches at random points gain more attention, to the point where a lot of larger guitar brands don’t attend NAMM anymore.
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