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Thanks for all the pics

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"It is a danger to create something and risk rejection. It is a greater danger to create nothing and allow mediocrity to rule."

"You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at." W.H. Auden

 

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I haven’t seen any reference or news about MIDI keyboard controllers with cutting edge features (MIDI 2.0, poly AT) except for Native Instruments.  Nothing from Novation, Arturia, others?

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Gigs: Yamaha CP88, Crumar Mojo 61, A&H SQ5 mixer, ME1 IEM, MiPro 909 IEMs

 

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On 1/26/2024 at 6:19 PM, Dave Bryce said:

Yes.  Better booths too.

 

I have a feeling more than a few attendees may come away from the show with it.  Both days so far have been quite busy. I was in several booths today that were packed, and very few people were wearing masks.

 

dB

Yeah I just don't take any chances at places like NAMM. I had one on for airline trips, had a fly out gig this weekend and at NAMM Thursday. One guy was giving me a look in the airport and I noticed almost nobody at NAMM had one. I don't have any health risks, I just don't feel like getting sick if I don't have to. Went to Oppenheimer in December and got a cold because I didn't wear one. One of my guitar players got the flu on his flight back from NYC last week, of course was maskless on the flight. Since the day after NAMM I was doing a fly out gig, why risk waking up Friday sick or getting sick just before the show Friday night? Not worth it.

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Not sure what happened to this thread, back it comes!

Here's a demo of some new stuff in Zebralette 3, one bit talks about oscillator morphing.   I've heard some really nice patches from this thing already (not this vid).

What's crazy to me is that this whole vid is so in depth and it's only talking about part of the oscillator section...

At the end Urs plays some presets.  Unbelievable how much like a cymbal that one oscillator can sound, if nothing else this thing will be great for percussive/bell/drum like sounds.   I can't think of another synth I've tried that can do sounds like that, with that much complexity and fidelity.  And Zebra 3 will have how many of those single oscillators per patch?!!
 

 

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One of my favorite new products was Ned Steinberger's new headless guitar. The photos don't do it justice, the neck plays like glass that likes you. There's an onboard preamp powered by a super-capacitor that charges in 1 minute for an 8-hour charge (!). But you can also run it passive if you want. Ned gave me a preamp to check out, which I most certainly will do.

 

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What's NAMM without events? For reasons unknown, I was invited to the 2024 Chair's Global Reception in the Marriott Platinum Ballroom. It was a great meet and greet, and even had good food - at a convention. Imagine that.

 

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This is one of those "if the show was bigger, it would have been in Hall E." It's an easy-to-play strummable instrument. IIRC it's under $100.

 

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Is Donner the new Monoprice? They're collaborating with Jack White's Third Man Hardware.

 

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They also showed a teeny-tiny synthesizer. It supports 5 seconds of sampling, a subtractive synthesis + PCM sample engine, loop recording, build-in 128 bar recording, and auto-quantization. I didn't get to hear it, though.

 

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Do you bring your guitar on airplanes? Are you feeling lucky today? Gator's Frequent Flyer TSA cases looked they might even be able to withstand Spirit Airlines' love of Guns 'n' Roses. Or at least their love for the album "Appetite for Destruction."

 

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And while we're on the subject of all things Tiffany, here's guitar looper extraordinaire Tiffany Johnson. David Schwartz, one of the founders of Mix Magazine and now involved in creating the TEC Tracks program for NAMM, is the dude on the left.

 

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