Namm countdown… beat machines galore!
Tomorrow the NAMM will start and as every year the first new product announcements start to roll in.
Currently it looks like everyone is focussing on new beat machines, just like Roger Linn and Dave Smith are still working on their drum machine / mpc killer those hip hop guys here announce their “beat thang” – ghetto style – and are invading every studio related forum for days now. laugh your ass off.
BeatKangz wrote:
“As for the marketing. We are who we are and make no apology for that….. We are going after Akai because they came to our studio, blew smoke up our a$$, got us to trust them and then tried to steal our idea with the xr 20. They Even jacked some our sounds so its very personal. They took food out of my son’s mouth at a time we were really struggling just trying to make ends meat……. So now its war. It was either 187 or find a way to build a machine. They should be glad we found a way to do it where they could at least not have to die. This aint no game to us. A man who has just had his dream stolen and has no money to provide for his fam is a very dangerous serious person.
Imagine having one of your best songs stolen by a major artist when you have a baby on the way…. ”
Than there’s Motu with a new thingie called “BPM” – another approach to the mpc style gear war
http://www.geuggis.com/images/EM_Scan3.jpg
… and the third beat machine would be the one coming from Native Instruments, something called “Mashine” – looks like a combination of hardware controller and software plugin:
http://www.zirconstudios.com/pics/EM_Scan2.jpg
Come on, what’s going on at ableton, what’s up their sleeves? Why does their stuff never leak?!