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2025 NAMM width has ended. Every year, musical equipment manufacturers, from distinctive brands such as Korg, ranges to guitar pedal makers such as Walrus Audio, and even companies that make fog machines and handles on Anheim to show the latest pots. It is a chaos in all ways that you expect to be a long-coffee agreement, and hordes of strangers compete for the center about new products, and food options that range from barely eating to an immediate heart attack. But Nam is also a special monster. If you have ever wondered up to eight drummers outside the synchronization, then two single players of the guitar in two fingers, a band of sound, and simple motives, all look just as they compete simultaneously for your attention, well, this is only A place to try this special brand of hell. But now that my leg started, and most importantly, the eardrum has finally began to recover, I had the opportunity to think about some of the best things that I saw on the floor. Here are the ten things that attracted my attention more.
Board Satan Fund
Eternal research Successful financing Cake Starter The campaign returned in September, but this was the first time that I could see Satan box personally. Think about it like a super charging version of Soma Labs Ether appeared in a handful of our gift guides. The Satan box does not make any sound of itself, but it features three images that convert EMFS (electromagnetic fields) into music – or at least audible noise. Run a mobile phone, energy exercises, or a tuning fork across the top, and you will get a unique moan, whispers, clicks and whistle that this device can only produce. But when the ether is just a microphone, the devil’s box is a tool designed for direct interaction and control of other devices. In addition to the sound output, it can also convert these electrical magnetic fields into the CV (control voltage) to control EURORACK or Midi to launch a visual mixture, or the three at the same time. There are a lot of options if you want to scream the loud Sawtooth, but if you want to turn the invisible radiation emitted from a distance control device to a group of axis of multimedia performance, this is the only option in the first place.
The guitar circle
the The guitar circle impractical. It costs more than $ 12,000 (enter dark emoji). But it is also only Crazy pleasure. Instead of running it by choosing or finger the string (though, you can do this if you like), the tendons flow by the transferred Plectrums that you rush into the spinning wheel. There are sixteen holes that allow you to design your rhythm, then there are six slices under capacities to control the size of each chain individually. This allows you to create complex robotic rhythms like a drum machine, but on guitar. And more than that, you can sync it with DAW to make sure that you are in a state of insurance with your support path, even when it stops and stops. It is a completely unique creation that caught the attention of artists such as Ed Opion from Radiohead.
Akai + original tools
One of the largest ads from NAMM was not a new product, but two industrial fools join efforts. Many of the original tools chain (NI) and expansion audio groups are transferred to the new MPC 3.0 platform from AKAI. Although some of the soft tools available on some of the existing devices may not seem to serve as a big deal at first, it greatly expands the Sonic plate in MPC and gives NI another foothold in the world of independent music devices after giving them alone with the+device. The choice of sounds is limited at the present time, with three exactly (representative dreams, cloud supplies, and Nacht) and only one (pale rollers). But two combinations and four other expansions will be added soon, and if things go well, I am sure that more will follow it.
Korg Handytraxx Play
Handytraxx is the first and only rotating disk that I know with compact effects. It contains a DJ candidate, delay and even simple Loper can, theoretically, deny the need for a separate mixer and even a second round disk in some cases. Although I cannot scratch, I always wanted to learn, and the nature of all in the Handytraxx game, including the headphone and battery energy, is very attractive to someone who just wants to dip a finger and not “you want to invest a ton of money and space in a separate mixer and preparation Double dizziness.
Donner Essential L1 Mynthesizer
Over the past few years, Donner, the Chinese music maker company, has begun to expand its shows, and the transition from the digital piano mostly and some guitar pedals bank deals, to decent DSP effects, cylinder machines and even pocket brother’s fund. L1 is the latest in its growing line of synthesis and has a lot of promise. It is largely based on Roland S-101, which is a distinctive tool of the eighties that were found in favor of artists such as Aphex Twin, Orbital, Mode, KMFDM, and Canada paintings.
What makes L1 especially interesting is that it is the first introduction to the new Snap2connect (S2C) system. The keyboard is attached to the magnetic compound, which allows you to leave it behind if you want, or use it as a separate MIDI control unit with DAW or other functioning. But Donner also says he plans to add other tools to the S2C system, so that you can buy a stereotype based on, for example, Juno-60 a day and only on the keyboard you already have.
Enjoy electronics
It is difficult to explain the batch. It is called by the company “Degenerator Modular Renotony”, which is very accurate and very and very useful. Basically, you can stick to this thing between your sequence device and your sequence distributed and take the CV to generate packing, lines, and all kinds of chaos that are barely controlled. In short, it takes the steel rock sequence that you have programmed and make it less stroke. It can restore your serial or add an adjustment. You can draw modification curves using a 4.3 -inch touch screen, or even convert them to X/Y for Direct Performance. It is mostly designed with EURACK, but it is also available as a stand -alone unit in an elegant wooden condition.
Rotocontrol machines
Rotocontrol may not look like the most exciting device in the beginning. It is a MIDI control unit with eight handles and switches on the right side, and a handful of other buttons on the left to bypass the device. But what makes it special is that these handles are equipped with engines – if you change a parameter in Daw or Softsynth, this is physically reflected on the console. This may seem a little trick, but it is incredibly useful.
Look, handles on a console or analogy generally come in flavors: utensils and encryption. A bowl, or voltage scale, has a start and an end. Therefore, if you change pre -preparation or switching tools, this may no longer reflect the actual preparation concerned. It is not possible for the start of encryption or an end. Since they do not point to a concrete situation in space, you do not need to worry about the dispute between the position of the handle and the value of the actual parameter. But it is also less than perfect for live performance. Judging the extent you need to switch to get the filter wiping this is completely difficult, and the blades have a smoother response than a bowl. Melbourne solves this as soon as the pots are moving to where they are supposed to be.
Roli Piano & Airwave
I was saying for a few years that I would finally learn how to play the piano. But my father is busy for two years, I am a part -time and a full -time independent. I have no time or income available, frankly, to treat piano lessons. And video options based on the application or that I tried were somewhat disappointing. I don’t know that Roli and Airwave Biano are more effective than the melody or duolingo teaching how to play, but there is more potential there. Where most music teaching applications are found mainly Guitar heroRoli uses the Airwave camera to follow your entire hand, allowing you to know if you are outside the position, or if your wrist is in a wrong angle or if you use the wrong fingers. It may not be good like a real professional that teaches you ropes, but it is likely to be better than the reinforced video game for some of the primitive music theory lesson.
Oh, as soon as you feel enough comfort with your game, Roli Piano and Airwave collects to create what is more controlled MPE in the market.
Entropy & Sons Recursion Studio
Video combinations are not new, but they are also not the most common things on this planet. It may be the RECURSION Studio from Entropy & Sons is one of the most important things I have ever seen. For one of them, this is not some simple visuals where a basic section of animation is treated, all visual images are created directly, algorithm. In addition, it can process the inserted video, distort images and interact with the inserted sound, even contains multiple modes of vibrations.
For those who want to get their hands, there are more than 300 units that can be combined to create custom visual corrections. But there are also about 1000 prior to the plane so that you can quickly get some visual images immediately to go with the compound jam. The company is constantly updating the device and adding new features.
Soundtoys Spaceblender
Soundtoys is one of the biggest names in influencing the add -ons there. It is used by everyone from Radolab from Jad Abumrad to Kenny Beats and Trent Reznor. The additional component of the company’s Decapitator is one of the best things that occur absolutely for drums, and Echoboy should be a delay. However, it does not present new effects terribly. SuperPlate was added to the list in the middle of 2023, but that was the first new addition since Little Plate in November 2017 – the company takes its time.
Spaceblender is Soundtoys’ takes on the ocean lover frequency. It is not really an additional, straight component, as it installs your voice and ascends it again in small parts, and instead, it is a set of delays that are combined and stained into something ethereal. It even contains an interactive envelope designer you can treat not only to refine your frequency shape, but even has the possibility as a live performance tool. Spaceblender is not completely ready for the release yet, but even in an early peek, it seemed great and it seems very stable.
