The MIDI Manufacturers Association got together at NAMM to continue the pursuit of MIDI 2.0 and we started wondering: Does anyone have a MIDI 2.0 shaped hole in their studios?
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Many products promised for 2018 didn't materialise. Did they vanish without a trace or are just taking longer than they hoped. We dug into our favourite missing synths of 2018 to find out.
Waldorf have picked up the Exodus Valkyrie, the only interesting thing at Musikmesse this year, and turned it into a potentially awesome virtual analog hardware synthesizer called Kyra.
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That insane 18 string guitar built for Jared DInes by Perry Ormsby has been used by the YouTube star to write and record an exclusive track entitled Djent 2018 - hear it here!
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This guitar will, of course, be special to many Gibson die-hard fans and lovers of Slash, but is it really worth spending $4000 dollars on an autograph?
The name of the brand new synth, Korg reveals, starts with a P, has eight letters and contains numbers. Is it Poly8000, Proph88, PEEOWWW5, P8976367? What? What the heck is it?
It's pre-NAMM Show time and those advertising gurus are all in a fever and trying to whip up a frenzy and get us all excited. So what could it be?
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This reissue of a classic multi-stage phaser could be a lot of fun, but will it be a viable option when compared to an original Mu-Tron Phasor II?
Traditional American hand made guitars meets a more modern guitar styling with better upper fret access and a cool new look. Looks like Gibson are making a statement and it's a welcome one.
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Throbbing, pumping and ducking: Not your everyday guitar tones, but the Deep Space Pulsar aims to give you some fun new ways to play.
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Behringer is recreating the Oberheim OB-Xa. Could this be the end for Shear Electronic's Relic-6 recreation of the OB-X?
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The new Suhr JM Pro Series comes in many flavours and has something for everyone it would seem.
The Somnium Guitar range takes many shapes and forms, but is essentially one guitar at heart.
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All those cool new toys to play, celebrities signing stuff and booth babes, but somehow it still sucks...
Jef's guitar predictions for NAMM 2017 are bold as love and dumb as hell - it's almost as though he made them all up...
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A unique way of evolving your guitar using different faceplates that can bolt onto the main guitar body. Genius or madness?
