NAMMaste
The world famous music tech show went low key but still saw some highs
This year’s NAMM may have been in April, and lacked some of the big kahunas on which the industry pivots, but in all other aspects, the magic of the show remained. What we’re always hungry for is, of course, new stuff, and NAMM 2023 was full of surprise announcements, hastily covered by a flock of journalists pretending to work for three days, while really just seizing the chance to grab a bit of sun.
In terms of what we were most excited by, one of our favourite plugin developers, Soundtoys, dropped, a new reverb plugin that features emulations of an EMT 140, 240, an Audicon, EcoPlate III and Stocktronics RX 4000, alongside some classic analogue saturation. Couple this with modern bells and whistles, such as modulation, infinite decay time and ducking and you’ve got the shape of another Soundtoys.
