Midyear recap + early Summer NAMM outlook

[echorec]

183* days down, 182 days to go in 2017

Winter NAMM (Los Angeles) January 19-22

these are some of the most noteworthy items from the show:

Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe
Chase Bliss Brothers
Dave Smith Prophet REV2
DOD Rubberneck
Empress EchoSystem
Meris Mercury7
Meris Ottobit Jr.
Sonicsmith Convertor & Squaver
Supro Island & Americana series guitars
Binson Echorec by T-Rex

full rundown via Bart:

http://www.effectsdatabase.com/events/namm/2017

some other miscellaneous music-making tools in need of familiarization:

Apple iPad 2017 (most affordable version yet)
Cooper FX Outward
David Rolo stamme[n]
EQD Erupter
EQD Space Spiral
Fairfield Shallow Water
Hologram Infinite Jets
Keeley Echoes
Sherman Filterbank 2 Compact

*dependent on your time zone

[echorec]

Synths! (& more)

There hasn't been much revealed this year, in terms of keyboards. Each of the 3 major trade shows, thus far, only had one notable hardware synth. For Winter NAMM, it was the Prophet REV2. The Quantum from Waldorf was the talk of Musikmesse, and finally the keyless Novation Peak garnered a lot of the discussion from Superbooth.

Eurorack continues to grow and there was no shortage of new modules at any of this year’s trade shows. This list is by no means conclusive, but it will give you some idea of just how many synths, samplers, drum machines, and modules have been on display this year.

Some of these are already available for purchase, and some are still under development. A few debuted last year, but are still undergoing cosmetic and functional adjustments.

1010music fxbox
4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator
Analogue Solutions Fusebox
Baloran The River
Bastl Thyme
Catalyst Audio 100 series (Buchla-inspired)
DSI Prophet REV2
Deckard’s Dream (pre-orders open)
Digitana SX-1 (EMS companion or standalone tabletop synth), HALia
Doepfer various modules
Dreadbox NYX, Abyss
Elektron Digitakt, Octatrack MKII
Eowave Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer
Erica fusionbox, Drum Sequencer, Black Dual VCF & more
Expressive E Touché
Fabulous Silicon Paradigm
Folktek Mescaline
JoMoX Alphabase
Kilpatrick Audio Tungsten
Living Memory Software LayR for iOS
Malekko BFF, Manther, Mr. D
Melu Instruments Freak
MFB Nanozwerg Pro
Modor NF-1m (smaller size, now supports MPE)
Moog Subsequent 37 CV
Music Thing Modular (5) new modules
Novation Peak, Circuit
Ondomo (Ondes Martenot produced in Japan)
Pioneer/DSI Toraiz
Pittsburgh Modular Impulse
Plankton Electronics Ants!
Radikal RT-311 Swarm Oscillator 
Rebel Technology Mix 04
Roland & Studio Electronics SE-02
Rossum Electro-Music Morpheus, Assimil8or 
Sonicsmith Convertor & Squaver
System 80 Jove (Jupiter-6) filter
Teenage Engineering OP-Z
Waldorf Quantum
Winter Garden Eloquencer
Zetaohm FLXS1

[echorec]

Summer NAMM (Nashville) July 13-15

expectations/speculations: 2 new offerings from Alexander

new basses from Supro (confirmed)

possibly a new offering from a Chase Bliss

new OBNE? They've already hinted at a desire to launch more pedals this year, so will Summer NAMM be serving as a coming-out party for these new devices?

I feel pretty safe in estimating 1-2 new pedals from EQD. They have used Summer NAMM as a launching pad several times in the past (Dunes + Tentacle + Interstellar Orbiter 2015, Aferneath + Arrows 2014, Depths + Arpanoid 2013, and so forth). I also know they have more DSP offerings planned for this year, so we'll see if one of them is ready by mid-July. Otherwise, expect a fall release prior to the holiday shopping season.

Summer NAMM tends to be pretty light on synth releases and with Musikmesse & Superbooth becoming the premier trade destinations, I don't expect anything from the big 3 in Japan (Yamaha, Korg, Roland), but you never know. Roland would be especially surprising, since they just unveiled the SE-02. With Korg being quiet on the trade circuit, I would imagine their next big unveiling will be late fall or late-January of next year, with Winter NAMM (Los Angeles) setting the tone for the upcoming year.

There are several products that have already been previewed, but we've yet to hear/see a finished production model. Here are some of them:

Source Audio Ventris
Dwarfcraft Curse
Dwarfcraft Grazer
Red Panda Tensor
Binson Echorec by T-Rex
Replicator Jr by T-Rex
unnamed Eventide pedal viewtopic.php?f=149&t=55116
WMD Geiger Counter Pro
Walrus Fathom reverb
Zvex Vibrophase (pedal version of the Candela, was supposed to hit stores in April)

post-NAMM guesstimates/thoughts:

a new Moog product: with the Minimoog D being discontinued, the MF-107, MF-105, and MF-104 out of production, could Moog debut a new product this year? They actually have a dedicated iOS team now, so perhaps we could also see the next Moog app to complement the Model 15 and Animoog.

late-2017: better demos and final pricing for the Waldorf Quantum

first pics/demos of the Thorpy FX-Dan Coggins (ex-Lovetone engineer) collaboration

3Q/4Q: new EQD pedals sharing the Avalanche's DSP platform

pricing/demos for the Digitana (UK) Halia desktop digital synth. No one's been talking about this, but it's a small digital synth that's supposed to run the gamut of synthesis.

[The Eristic]

I should be at NAMM on the 14th at least, will try to grab some pics and vids. Anyone else going?

[AlexanderPedals]

I should be at NAMM on the 14th at least, will try to grab some pics and vids. Anyone else going?

Yep, I'm going too! Stop by and say hello!

Potential tip for ILF'ers: None of us builders know who the hell anybody is based on your REAL names, so feel free to introduce yourself as <usernym> from <forum.> Attendees on Thursday / Friday wear badges but that's not usually helpful as they only have your given and family names on them.

I know I have relationships with several of you guys here and some on TGP, so it's really nice to be able to associate names with faces.

See you there!

[Zijnzijn Zijnzijn!]

A buddy of mine found this pic of what seems to be a new super looper by EHX


unless my google-fu is terrible I can't find any info on it. Hoping it's something cool like a souped up Boomerang and not just a one channel looper with, like, a bunch of reverbs on it or something

[echorec]

Thanks for sharing. That looks like Reggie Watts. He would be one of the first people to beta-test a new EHX looper.

[Olin]

Always exciting to see new entries into the looper world. Looks like it has MIDI too. Really hoping that's three/four loops, a dedicated stop button then an effects button for things like half speed etc.

[mathias]

For some reason I thought this thread was going to be about recapping amps. heh

[tremolo3]

ctrl+f
no Boss and Behringer

That EHX looper is the only thing I'm really excited about!