NAMM's most important annual events are the domestic trade shows held in January and July and a co-produced Russian show held in May. These conventions, open only to NAMM Members and the music products industry, attract tens of thousands of attendees who want to see new innovations and developments in music making. NAMM trade shows are unique because in addition to unifying the industry by bringing buyers and sellers together from around the world, the excess revenues from these popular events are funneled back into growing the music products industry.


The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is the not-for-profit trade association that unifies, leads and strengthens the $16 billion international musical instruments and products industry. NAMM's activities and programs are designed to promote the pleasures and benefits of playing music to people of all ages. NAMM is comprised of approximately 9,000 Member companies.

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Anaheim Convention Center
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Anaheim, CA 92802

Some time ago They modified a hexler TouchOSC template for Steingerg Cubase.

There was so many people asking for Cubase Template, for hexler TouchOSC, for the iPad that they decided to release it for free.
Thank you very much Max Pfetscher !

A new update of our freeware, Torpedo PI-FREE is now available for download.

This 2.0.12 version benefits of all the improvements and bugs corrections made on the Torpedo PI-101 line since last PI-FREE release. In short, an essential update.

Some new features:
- Improved power amp simulation
- New optimised sample rate conversion algorithm
- GUI improvements
- Minor bugs fixed.

From the inventors of Virtual Studio Technology, Padshop is a unique monophonic/polyphonic granular synthesizer for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 and runs as plug-in within any VST 3 host application.

The user interface of Padshop provides undeviating accessibility to all its controls and content, with more than 400 presets plus the SoftGrain Wave ROM comprising hundreds of samples to customize presets and feed to the two available grain-layer oscillators.

Availability and pricing
Padshop will be available from February 29, 2012, as download version through the Steinberg Online Shop website and requires Steinberg's USB-eLicenser dongle.

The suggested retail price for Padshop is EUR 49.99, including German VAT, and GBP 42.34, including British VAT.

The Epic Pig Guiro is a Kontakt sample library based on a pig-shaped guiro, a Latin-American percussion instrument. It could be hit on its body or rubbed on top notches to produce a ratchet sound. This is a very common instrument with a real hidden power.


Some features:
- 25 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)
- 196 samples (.WAV – 44.1KHz / 24 bit)
- 88MB Installed
- Up to 3 velocity layers
- Up to 16x round-robin
- Performance controls.

Klanghelm Updates VUMT to v1.8.2.


Some new features:

- VST3 support added.
- Both Mac and Win versions now have a dedicated installer.
- The PPM mode has now its own adjustable reference level.
- Fixed: input of negative values.
- Fixed: strange behaviour at higher sample rates.