The MusikMesse show is over again, and we’ve spent some quality time in Frankfurt with all the gear lined up ready to play around with. This year’s show was different though, some major players decided not to show and you had to look a bit better to find out what was going on, but there was plenty of new and cool gear to see! Here’s an overview of what we thought was the coolest new gear around.
Allthough our main goal each year is to get all the scoops on new products to you as soon as possible, we do have eyes for other nice … (uhm) stuff too. At many booths on the Messe we get a very warm welcome by very nice and friendly hostesses. Here are a few of our favorits (with all the respect these ladies deserve of course!).
Gearjunkies launches the Gearjunkies Twitter channel. Follow us on our Twitter Channel and we will keep you up to date on all the latest MusikMesse 2009 News!
For the 10th time, more than 100 magazines from all over the world got together to vote the best products of 2008/2009 in more than 40 categories. The MIPA Musikmesse International Press Award is the “Grammy” of the Musical Instrument/Pro Audio industry. Below we have the most appropriate categories for Gearjunkies.com.
Roland Corporation is proud to announce availability of the FG Connects project on the Roland U.S. website. Made exclusively for the Fantom-G series workstations, this free download provides new content to inspire owners of the Fantom-G, including new rhythm patterns, new rhythm kits, chord memories, and new edits of the most popular arpeggio phrases.
David and Johan from Teenage Engineering give us a walkthrough of what the OP-1 will be when it is finished. Still in development but planned for release next year.
For the oldskool true Gearjunkie, there is only one place at the Messe where they can get their kicks. The Messe floor where manufacturers like Doepfer, Buchla, Synthesizers.com would show their stuff to the public. We went to Doepfer stand and took a few pictures, just to give an impression of it means to be a ‘modular patcher’.
Already more then a year old but still an interesting product from Moog. Lou Reed amongst many other guitar ‘heroes’, try out the Moog Guitar.
Yesterday AKAI Pro announced their first step into the synth market with the MINIAK. The first product between Akai and Alesis. Euro price will be around the 500 Euros. We took a few pictures at the introduction.
Manikin Electronics is the manufacturer of the Memotron. A digital remake of one of the most unusual and fascinating electronic music instruments, the mellotron instrument. In Frankfurt they were showing a prototype of the Memotron Rack. Preliminary price would be 1249 Euro.
Another addition to the OpenLabs product range is this NeKo EX5. The NeKo EX5 is based on the superior quality and established reputation of our award-winning L-series.
One of the first new products that caught our eyes at this years MusikMesse was the DBeat from Openlabs. A workstation without keys this time. Like the other workstations a large display shows the info you need but the DBeat has 16 (17) pads instead of a keyboard. More details and information have to released, but we thought we would show it already, live and direct from the floors of the Messe.
Jomox will be showing the MBase11 at this year’s MusikMesse in Frankfurt. The MBase11 is the logical follower of the MBase01 and offers even better performance, more versatility and an even phatter sound!
In order to give customers greater access to the workings of Origin, the new-generation modular synthesizer, ARTURIA announces at Musikmesse two major updates to be released this year. Both of these upgrades will be free.
The MBase11 can do only one thing, but it does it right: Phat kick drums!