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NAMM 2020: Korg NTS-1 Custom Panel synth modding
15 Jan 2020 · Korg has opened up the DIY nature of the NuTekt NTS-1 Digital Synthesizer with the NTS-1 Custom Panel and the NTS-1 Customizations Github resource to enable you to mod it to your own design.
NAMM 2020: New Charvel Joe Duplantier signature model announced for 2020
15 Jan 2020 · The Gojira frontman gets a new Charvel Joe Duplantier signature model for 2020 and it looks like it will handle anything you can throw at it. Made in Indonesia will these stack up at under a grand?
NAMM 2020: Moog Subsequent 25 details emerge
15 Jan 2020 · Another leak brings to light all the details on the new Moog Subsequent 25. Successor to the Sub Phatty and a very cool looking duophonic analog synthesizer.
NAMM 2020: Boss Katana-Artist MKII 100-watt combo
15 Jan 2020 · The new flagship Boss Katana-Artist MKII 100-watt combo packs in even more features than its predecessor and has enough power to handle stage work with its custom Waza 12-inch speaker.
NAMM 2020: 2HP Lunchbox portable modular systems
15 Jan 2020 · Super-thin Eurorack module makers 2HP has announced a very cool little Lunchbox modular case that can come standalone or packed with their modules in custom configurations.
NAMM 2020: Output and Barefoot team up for some beautiful speakers
15 Jan 2020 · Output has announced that it has teamed up with Barefoot to introduce studio monitor speakers later this year, and they're drop-dead gorgeous. Let's hope they sound as good as they look!
NAMM 2020: EVO by Audient – entry-level audio interfaces for streamers
15 Jan 2020 · Styled in black and green, the EVO 4 and EVO 8 look like pieces of Razer equipment in your typical gaming setup.
Novation Launchpad MK3: Live controller gets bigger pads & a sequencer!
15 Jan 2020 · MK3 brings aboard transport controls and other Live-specific shortcuts like Print To Clip and Capture MIDI, as well as eight Custom Modes and a Components Editor for deep customization.
NAMM 2020: Ernie Ball Music Man Sabre
14 Jan 2020 · Ernie Ball Music Man is launching a new Sabre model for 2020. With dual humbucking pickups and that classic in-house trem system, these could rattle a few feathers.
NAMM 2020: VENUE S6L-48D shipping, VENUE 6.2 announced by AVID
14 Jan 2020 · Avid is shipping the range-topping VENUE 48D, a five-engine, 48-fader behemoth at the top of its VENUE S6L series and releases an update to VENUE 6.2 with new features.
NAMM 2020: Chase Bliss Audio teasing Automatone CXM 1978
14 Jan 2020 · What is Chase Bliss Audio teasing on Instagram? It is called the Automatone CXM 1978. Could it be a re-imagining of the 1978 Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb?
NAMM 2020: D’Angelico Excel Series Throwback Collection ’30s style
14 Jan 2020 · The new D'Angelico Guitars Excel EXL-1 Throwback and Excel Style B Throwback models are both '30s style arch top guitars, loaded with a single neck mini-humbucker and they just ooze class.
NAMM 2020: Noise Engineering unveil three new modules: Virt Iter, Univer Inter and Desmodus Versio
14 Jan 2020 · Noise Engineering announces three new modules: Virt Iter is a stereo oscillator, Univer Inter a MIDI-to-CV converter and Desmodus Versio is a stereo reverb. Only a few details so far...
NAMM 2020: D’Angelico Premier and Excel Series semi-hollow Mini DC
14 Jan 2020 · D'Angelico has just announced a new smaller semi-hollow double cut design called the Mini DC. Launching during Winter NAMM and now available in both Premier and Excel Series.
NAMM 2020: PRS Private Stock 35th Anniversary Dragon
14 Jan 2020 · This guitar celebrates 35 years in the guitar business, a Private Stock instrument with an intricately inlaid dragon across its neck. Enter the PRS Private Stock 35th Anniversary Dragon!
NAMM 2020: Behringer teases a Moog 921 VCO modular clone.
14 Jan 2020 · Another day another tease video from Behringer. This time we go into a spin above a knob that seems to match up to the Moog 921 voltage controlled oscillator.
Twisted Electrons MEGAfm dual YM2612 FM synthesizer with all parameters out on the table
14 Jan 2020 · Twisted Electrons has announced MEGAfm an FM hardware synthesizer based on two Yamaha YM2612 FM chips with 32 sliders for total control of all 4 operators.
Xenomorph DIY Modular Synthesizer coming Spring 2020
14 Jan 2020 · That's all it says on the website along with a nice big picture of a 3 oscillator synthesizer with an enormous patch bay that looks an awful lot like the Fenix II.
NAMM 2020: Torpedo Captor X from Two Notes Audio Engineering
14 Jan 2020 · The reactive Torpedo Captor X from Two Notes Audio Engineering is a load box, tube amp attenuator, cab simulator, IR loader, stereo expander and has smart phone control.
NAMM 2020: Bastl Instruments and Casper Electronics Waver wavefolding drone mixer
14 Jan 2020 · In my view, Casper Electronics and Bastl Instruments bring out the best in each other. This latest collaboration called Wave is a wave folding drone mixer.
NAMM 2020: Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster revealed
14 Jan 2020 · The new Acoustasonic Stratocaster has just been revealed and I think we all saw this one coming from a mile off. Now you can twang on your acoustic Strat with Stringed Instrument Resonance System.
NAMM 2020: Arturia launches KeyStep Pro controller and sequencer
14 Jan 2020 · Arturia's KeyStep Pro features a 4-channel polyphonic MIDI and CV sequencer with a 16-part drum channel all wrapped up with a 37-key MIDI controller with aftertouch.