Ah, January. This most joyous of months, with its taxes, bill pile-ups and crappy weather. Oh, and Winter NAMM in sunny California. So, what's the verdict (from my own, very subjective point of view) of this years gear-fest? Well:
- Roland releases yet another generic samplebased synth and virtual analog synth. Which looks like ALL Roland-gear has always looked like. Meh.
- Korg releases yet another generic samplebased synth, sorry - "workstation" - and virtual analog synth. Which, granted, looks slightly more interesting than Rolands efforts. Still: Meh.
- Clavia releases another Nord Electro. Meh.
- M-Audio releases a bunch of MIDI-controllers and stuff. Meh.
- Behringer blatantly rips off Mackie (again) with its Onyx, sorry - Xenyx - mixers, and - refreshingly, I might add - also rips off M-Audio's MIDI controllers. Meh.
- Digidesign releases... stuff. Again. At a ridiculous price. Meh.
- Akai releases the MPC. Again. With new colours. Again. And a disfunctional OS, probably. Double-meh.
- A bunch of softsynth/fx companies release a bunch of new stuff/upgrades to not so new stuff. Apple blows us away with its Logic Pro 7.2 update. That last part was a lie. It's meh. No, really.
- A bunch of analog synth companies release a bunch of new analog synths. Which I still can't afford/don't have room for. So, meh to all of you.
Well, am I getting jaded? Probably. Am I pretty much at the point where I have what I need to get things done? Probably. Where did my gear-lust go? I want it back. Now. Come on, gear-making-people. Give me back that feeling.
Also, I just finished a remix for Theatre of Tragedy together with my Rustflower Inc. compadre, Kristian. It is pretty cool.
What, didn't I blog that one? Damn.
19.1.06
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