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Best of show: walk NAMM with us in a gear-mas gallery
Who stood out at this year’s NAMM show, that festivus of gear that brightens our winters from Anaheim? We’ve given you some idea with NAMM and LA’s Buchla & Friends. Here, in images, are our favorites from NAMM, as captured by LA photographer Mehdi Hassine and veteran Berlin hardware guru Gösta Wellmer.
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Soundbites: the music inventions of NAMM, Buchla and Friends
Gear-mas comes but once a year. But with swirling doom and gloom, just how is the world of making musical instruments? We sent Nadia Says, along with Burak Yerebakan, Portrait XO, Franck Martin, and Mehdi Hassine to find out, at the mighty NAMM show in Anaheim — and the indie Buchla & Friends in LA, too. Here’s the show viewed through artists and makers alike, one portrait at a time.
Nadia Says - January 30, 2026
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As much triggering as you can handle: Noise Engineering Multi Repetitor
Tough times and tight spaces call for deep algorithmic generative triggers. So now is a great time for Noise Engineering to reimagine their trigger module. Tap a tempo, patch a cord, and instantly spin up percussive patterns you can freely modulate — the best of what the company gave us before, but now with live performance transformations and more possibilities. It’s Multi Repetitor. It’s Multi Repetitor. Sorry.
Peter Kirn - January 22, 2026
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New, playful arpeggiator features for Sequential Take 5, Oberheim TEO-5
Peter Kirn - November 10, 2025
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Boards of Canada played in lightbulbs: restored 1959 PDP-1 performance
Peter Kirn - October 13, 2025
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