To Infinity (And Beyond)...
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[Insert Pithy Apology About Not Posting]
I find it interesting that I feel obligated to post on a more-or-less daily basis, as if Analog Industries was a real job or something. When three days skate by without a post, especially during the Blog-gasm known as NAMM, people start to think something’s up. Let me be the first to state that nothing could be further from the truth.
First up, Tattoo fixes. We got the two violent offenders out of the way fairly quickly, but there are still lots of little issues that were discovered in the first days that need to be addressed. We’re going to have an all-platforms update in a couple days that will address the couple of small problems with the sequencer. We’re also still working on the dumb-ass Logic cymbal problem. (This one is tough because we can’t replicate it here.) I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this lately, but fucking Logic. We hates it, Precious.
I’ll also take this opportunity to apologize for putting out a product that had such bad bugs in it. Normally, we’d expect one or two, and it’s a pleasant surprise when it doesn’t happen (which has occurred with a couple of products, but unfortunately not the majority) but Tattoo is so complex that no matter how much we tested, we obviously missed more than usual. We’re getting them tamped down, though, and we’d like to thank all the early adopters for their patience.
Once we’ve got Tattoo running at high idle, we’re going to do a round of updates on the whole product line (which should be a hoot, all twenty of ’em) and then on to other things. So, that’s the foreseeable future for AD.
Speaking strictly for myself, my wife and I will be moving the second week in February. We just signed the lease on our new house (with pool, natch) in Phoenix, and the Big Move begins the 12th and continues until it is done. Expect to hear a lot about that.
As for NAMM, nothing really blew my socks off, just like last year. I think perhaps I’ve lost the ability to be easily impressed. Anything you see that blew you away?
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Namm was pretty tame this year. The only interesting bits are from the modular world. And the Teenage Engineering OP-1. The big guys are putting out the same old crap in new wrapping.
i think musik messe will have more to offer. i think elektron has a booth there. supposed to be a sampler/sequencer type thing if rumor is correct.
the only interesting stuff these days is boutique gear and a lot of them skip the trade shows or are part of bigger booths like analogue haven or big city music etc.
also, there were a string of announcements pre-NAMM weren't there? i vaguely recall stuff popping up on matrixsynth.
oh, good luck w/the move. enjoy the pool!
Make noise, Harvestman, Malekko, 4ms, and Tip Top showed really cool things for euro modulars. Those were exciting to me.
I'm moderately interested in the OP-1, although I think they are trying to put too much stuff into it. And I was glad to see the Optitron expansion for M-Tron coming out. Not really useful, but I'm sucker for the M-Tron library.
Not much else though. Same annual irritations with most of the big players. Lots more ugly guitars birthed unto this world (who buys all those ugly guitars, anyway?).
I think the problem with NAMM this year is the economy. Musicians are for the most part on the lower economic scale except for a select few. Add to that a shit economy, job loss, poor sales, etc... and you get not much R+D for the new hot hottness.
I've had my eye on the OP-1 since they first showed it. I think some of those dudes are x-Electron so I'm sure whatever they throw in there will have some pretty creative functionality. I regularly have long ass flights and train rides on my schedule and that looks like the perfect in flight boredom drug.
These could be considered somewhat interesting (or not):
http://www.sonicstate.com/amped/2010/01/15/wnamm10-the-most-revolutionary-product-of-namm-2010/
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM10/article/Blackbird+Guitars/Blackbird-Premiers-First-Ever-Carbon-fiber-Ukulele-at-2010-NAMM-Show
http://www.mi-pro.co.uk/news/30816/NAMM-2010-Jamhub-makes-noisy-debut
i want to hear the metasonix drum machine on big speakers. there's a ridiculous video with eric ridiculing his own machine
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lolz.. everyone needs a carbon fiber ukulele
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM10/article/Blackbird+Guitars/Blackbird-Premiers-First-Ever-Carbon-fiber-Ukulele-at-2010-NAMM-Show
That Metasonix Drum Machine doesn't seem very interesting. No sync of any kind, that i can see anyway. Just another glitchy noise box of annoyance. I can do the same thing with a Machinedrum. And it'll probably cost more.
I want the Kaossilator Pro but its not a whip out the credit card level want.
Do tradeshows matter that much anymore? I know that things like AES are important for presenting papers and other academic things, but how important are these conferences for launching new products?
In other fields, Apple pulled out of Macworld, and most of the game companies have reduced their presence at E3, and yet games and computers continue to sell. As far as the lack of excitement at NAMM reflecting a poor economy, well, that might be true. I do think that blogs, forums and other forms of social media are becoming more important sources of info on new products and advances in technology, compared to print media, tradeshows and the like.
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