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...

We caught up with Fabrice Gabriel at the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California to find out what he's been working on this last year with his company Eiosis.

SE Electronics is pleased to introduce the new edition to the sE X1 Series, the SE X1 USB Condenser USB Microphone, which has been announced today at this year’s NAMM show in Los Angeles.

The 551 is the first and only 500-series EQ designed by Mr Rupert Neve himself.

The 551 EQ aims to bring back some of the colour of Rupert Neve's most famous designs. With Class-A gain blocks, custom-wound inductors and transformers, the 551 brings Rupert's classic inductor EQ to the compact 500-series format for the very first time.

For more info, watch the video above.

Focusrite's latest offering is compatible with all iPads with Lightning connectors (4th gen iPad, iPad Air and all iPad Minis), features two Focusrite preamps, line inputs and an instrument DI, independent stereo monitor and headpohone outputs, and a USB port for connecting class-compliant MIDI instruments and controllers.