SOUND ON SOUND
QSC, otherwise known for their power amps and loudspeakers, have made their first foray into digital live sound mixers with the Touchmix series. Could they give Mackie a run for their money?
The SE5 from SE Electronics is the successor to the hugely popular SE4 small diaphragm condenser and does away with the interchangeable capsule in favour of a fixed cardioid pattern capsule.
We get a quick run-through of the new FA08 and FA06 workstation synths from Roland at teh Winter NAMM show earlier this week.
Elektron's new drum machine has some serious power under the hood with wave and sample playback across eight channels, and sports 12 playable drum pads. We got a closer look at the NAMM show.
The DGT650 from Lewitt is a stereo USB microphone and audio interface that supports ASIO on Windows, OS X Core Audio, and is also easily combined with mobile devices.
We took a look at the new four-way monitors from Eve Audio, the SC407 and SC408, which are the largest in the SC range.
At the Winter NAMM show in California, which closed only hours ago, M-Audio announced the debut of Trigger Finger Pro, an advanced performance pad controller with onboard sequencing and software integration.
Built in California, the Manley Labs Core brings together new and existing technologies from the company's stable of products to create a channel strip that's specifically intended to be musician-friendly. The reasoning for this is that, in today's landscape of long-distance collaboration and remote sessions, musicians are becoming more and more responsible for recording their music.
The latest announcement from Slate Digital has the pro audio community divided. Can it possibly live up to the claim of being able to recreate classic mics. We catch up with Steven Slate at NAMM to get an intro to his new Virtual Microphone System.
For more on the Apollo Twin, check out our news story from the first days of NAMM:...
Arturia's latest product, BeatStep, is a MIDI to CV converter, a MIDI controller and a step sequencer. That's a lot of functionality for a little box that costs less than £100.
We got a demo of the new limited edition Moog Sub 37 Tribute analogue paraphonic synth at the NAMM show today. Can't wait to get one in to SOS Towers for review...
