The 2016 NAMM Show, held Jan 21-24, 2016 in Anaheim, CA, is one of the largest music industry events in the world. Over 1,500 companies introduce new music gear at the show, which is attended by about 100,000 people.
Synthtopia’s coverage of the 2016 NAMM Show is sponsored by Yamaha.
You can get the latest news on synths and electronic music gear introduced at NAMM below:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BASC-t1LM3T/ It looks like a new polyphonic analog synth will be making its debut at the 2016 NAMM Show – the Korg Minilogue. Unofficial images leaked out on Friday, via multiple sources, of the Korg Minilogue synth – an as-yet to be announced keyboard.
Rossum Electro-Music share this teaser image today for their new Evolution synthesizer.
Could AKAI be bringing back the AX analog synthesizer? On AKAI’s Facebook page, they shared a user demo of the AKAI AX73 6-voice analog synthesizer, with this note:
Electro-Harmonix has introduced a pair of new ‘Lester‘ effects pedals, that they describe as ‘The Ultimate Rotary Speaker Emulator’: The Lester G was designed with guitarists in mind, and includes a dedicated compressor that maximizes the rotary speaker effect on guitar; and The Lester K is tailored to the needs of keyboardists looking for Leslie-style rotary speaker effects.… Read More Electro-Harmonix Lester ‘The Ultimate Rotary Speaker Emulator’
2016 NAMM Show: Pittsburgh Modular shared this sneak preview of the new Lifeforms Modular systems – a series of Eurorack-compatible synth modules.
View this post on Instagram Experimenting with Lifeforms. #eurorack #synth A post shared by Pittsburgh Modular (@pghmodular) on Jan 1, 2016 at 11:53am PST 2016 NAMM Show: Pittsburgh Modular today shared several short videos on Instragram, offering a sneak preview of the Lifeforms Modular synthesizer modules.
2016 NAMM Show: And so it begins….
2016 NAMM Show: Seattle synth manufacturer The Harvestman shared this sneak preview of a new step sequencer, the Stillson Hammer mkII. The new sequencer will make its official debut at the Winter NAMM Show, coming up in January. Here’s what they have to say about it:
The Harvestman shared this sneak preview of their upcoming sequencer module – relaxing at Sweeney’s Bar in Dublin.
Sputnik Modular’s Roman Filippov shared several images via his Instagram account that offer a preview of their upcoming Dual Multisegment Function Generator & DMFG Expander:
