It’s time for NAMM (National Assoc. of Music Merchants) show in Anaheim.
Usually this show is just like one very large hangover - even if you don’t go to the parties !! Dry Orange county weather and too much loud music means that it only takes a few hours before you have a very bad headache !
Sadly this NAMM show there really isn’t anything standing out as a new and cool product announcement. Most of the big news in the software space are updates (Logic 6 & Protools 6). Protools 6 has been so heavily trailered over the last six months or so it’s not really news and whilst Logic 6 has lots of logic users happy it doesn’t seem to have anything really new.
If there’s one thing that’s become more apparent is that there are lot more people either committing or at least talking about supporting Apple’s AudioUnit standard - with the acquisition of Emagic last year by Apple and the acquisition just before christmas of Steinberg by Pinnacle this year could be a very interesting one. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a real plugin battle occur during the year !
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This post was written by awk on January 19, 2003
