Frankfurt Musikmesse

I went there with Herman (Sherman filterbank) and had a look around. As usual lots of rubbish and a few cool things.
I did REALLY like the Club of the Knobs modular. Great build quality and sounded superb. Better than the competition IMHO. Having said that modulars are great but I have no need for anything else to make music with.
PRS guitar amps sounded excellent. Guitar hall was fun.
I tried the Arturia Origin and really wasn't impressed with the sound. I wanted to be open about it but just couldn't enjoy the sound at all.
RME have a great new USB audio interface
I want a Brauner mic. Beautiful things.
Nice AKAI controller for Ableton.
Hermans new thing ("restyler" stereo filter with compression built by Rodec) is superb though. Am going to do a demo video with him this week.
The
Moog stand was full of suits and the guitar synth of theirs really did nothing for me (and I love guitar synths!) Cheaper version coming out this year. Does sound cool for certain things, but absurd price. The cheaper version would have to be a LOT cheaper.
Schippmann Ebbe und Flut is superb too. Really great sounding unit. 1500 euros though but well worth it IMHO.
Not much else caught my eye. Nord, Korg, Roland etc...yawn.

To be honest, I didn't give it time because I was put off by how it sounded. Too many good sounding synths around to accept anything less than great these days.

I was there too and liked a lot of the Highend stuff like Chandler, Crane Song, SSL, Thermionic etc but boy it does get more expensive everytime around. Nice to see the Schneiderburo and Jomox corner. Had a nice talk with them. I liked what I saw at Akai (there might even coem a new synth with vocoder!!). But all in all the lanes in the halls where wider and a lot less stalls!! No Ableton, No M-Audio, No Access and many others.

I would have gone there but there wasn