David Franz is a songwriter, record producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, performing artist, author, and instructor. He owns and runs Underground Sun Studio, teaches numerous courses for Berkleemusic, and writes books about music production and engineering including the first book written about using Pro Tools (Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools). He frequently contributes to DigiZine (Digidesign's user magazine), writes music for corporate clients, and tours with his band, The Bleedin Bleedins.
Here’s the second half of my NAMM report… where I get the lowdown from Diego Stocco from Spectrasonics about their new AMAZING synth, Omnisphere. I can’t wait until this is out in September ‘08! I also talk with Dan Boatman at IK Multimedia about their new cool Stomp box. Awesome stuff. Check it out:
NAMM – the winter wonderland of music gear. I’ve been going to NAMM for 5 years now and I must say that this year’s show was the most uneventful yet, in terms of being blown away by new gear offerings. However, there was one shining exception to the last sentence… Spectrasonic’s new Omnisphere synth module. That thing blew me away. I watched the demo 3 times. I was at the Spectrasonics booth so much that I ended up on their Omnisphere promo video several times. Check out that video here.
I also interviewed Diego Stocco, one of the developers for Omnisphere as well as a friend of mine from NAMM years past. I’ll post my interview with him and his demo of Omnisphere in a separate post here as soon as the video gets edited.
While at NAMM, I filmed interviews with several of my favorite manufacturers… and had some of their reps talk about their new gear.