NAMM 2026 - January 20th-24th

[jabe]

The NAMM exhibition takes place next week, unusually not encompassing a weekend.

It traditionally runs in late January in Anaheim near Los Angeles with many companies showcasing their new products.

The Tracktion company will be there and will take the opportunity to tell us what we can expect in imminent software - and sometimes hardware - releases.

[skipscada]

imminent [...] hardware releases.

Incidentally it's 10 years since the Copper Reference audio interface was announced. Never seen one in the wild.

[jabe]

All quiet on the western front...

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

The T company was exhibiting at NAMM 2026 with a hardware company called Prism Sounds, but the hardware looks to be priced beyond my pocket.

[dysjoint]

Prism Sounds is part of the company, under the umbrella 'Audio Squadron ', which includes/included Sadie, another audio editor/DAW. Not sure who owns who. Then there's still the connection to Jules and JUCE? . There's definitely enough talent involved for Waveform to be the best of the best. I've been looking out for any Namm news too but haven't found anything yet.

[Sweeto-k]

Please no AI
Its not needed and is killing creativity.

[jabe]

Please no AI
Its not needed and is killing creativity.

There's different degrees. It's not all about creativity. I expect it'll all be optional.

[dysjoint]

Funnily enough, the latest beta installer is the first one I've noticed where the publisher is Audio Squadron as opposed to Tracktion Software. A bit disappointing that there was not even a peep from the team over the NAMM period perhaps, especially with the grumblings over at Studio One about the rebrand, a bit of Wavefrorm hype might have been timely. But overall there's been a bunch of point releases and betas and bug fixes so all seems well. Just the long time criticism that communication isn't always the strongest point in Tracktion land.

[bk]

Just the long time criticism that communication isn't always the strongest point in Tracktion land.

That is an understatement

[Dionysos]

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

Excuse me in case you're just joking, but if not: Gemini's take on this topic is entirely worthless – you're asking an AI about as-of-yet unpublished information, and LLMs only have a chance of spitting out factual words if they were trained on enough of them, which clearly isn't the case here. You may as well ask it for tomorrow's lottery numbers.

[dysjoint]

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

Excuse me in case you're just joking, but if not: Gemini's take on this topic is entirely worthless – you're asking an AI about as-of-yet unpublished information, and LLMs only have a chance of spitting out factual words if they were trained on enough of them, which clearly isn't the case here. You may as well ask it for tomorrow's lottery numbers.

Somewhere, sometime over the last year, Woody popped up in a comment section and gave a positive response (could have been throwaway or light-hearted) to the suggestion of including AI in Waveform in the future. So maybe not completely baseless

[pough]

Isn't the stem separation already AI? Or by AI do you mean something like a super-Clippy music companion?

[jabe]

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

Excuse me in case you're just joking, but if not: Gemini's take on this topic is entirely worthless – you're asking an AI about as-of-yet unpublished information, and LLMs only have a chance of spitting out factual words if they were trained on enough of them, which clearly isn't the case here. You may as well ask it for tomorrow's lottery numbers.

No, that's not what I asked it to do.

I asked Gemini to round up whatever information it could find and to collate it into a concise readable summary.

It did that.

[skipscada]

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

Excuse me in case you're just joking, but if not: Gemini's take on this topic is entirely worthless – you're asking an AI about as-of-yet unpublished information, and LLMs only have a chance of spitting out factual words if they were trained on enough of them, which clearly isn't the case here. You may as well ask it for tomorrow's lottery numbers.

No, that's not what I asked it to do.

I asked Gemini to round up whatever information it could find and to collate it into a concise readable summary.

It did that.

No references to credible sources = It's worthless. Or worse, misleading, since incorrect info is worse than no info. Someone somewhere may have mentioned Waveform and AI in the same paragraph, and that's enough for Gemini to "suggest".

[cjayconrod]

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

Excuse me in case you're just joking, but if not: Gemini's take on this topic is entirely worthless – you're asking an AI about as-of-yet unpublished information, and LLMs only have a chance of spitting out factual words if they were trained on enough of them, which clearly isn't the case here. You may as well ask it for tomorrow's lottery numbers.

No, that's not what I asked it to do.

I asked Gemini to round up whatever information it could find and to collate it into a concise readable summary.

It did that.

No references to credible sources = It's worthless. Or worse, misleading, since incorrect info is worse than no info. Someone somewhere may have mentioned Waveform and AI in the same paragraph, and that's enough for Gemini to "suggest".

I hate that you're making me defend AI, but Gemini cites its sources. It directs you to the websites it culled that information from consistently.

[skipscada]

I had a word with Gemini on my phone the other day. It suggested that the next Waveform version would have AI added, which comes as no surprise. It cited JUCE changes too. I'm beginning to wonder whether accommodating AI and the JUCE changes while also going through the fixing of assorted bugs could mean that the arrival of version 14 might happen in 2027 rather than this year.

Excuse me in case you're just joking, but if not: Gemini's take on this topic is entirely worthless – you're asking an AI about as-of-yet unpublished information, and LLMs only have a chance of spitting out factual words if they were trained on enough of them, which clearly isn't the case here. You may as well ask it for tomorrow's lottery numbers.

No, that's not what I asked it to do.

I asked Gemini to round up whatever information it could find and to collate it into a concise readable summary.

It did that.

No references to credible sources = It's worthless. Or worse, misleading, since incorrect info is worse than no info. Someone somewhere may have mentioned Waveform and AI in the same paragraph, and that's enough for Gemini to "suggest".

I hate that you're making me defend AI, but Gemini cites its sources. It directs you to the websites it culled that information from consistently.

Thanks for the info. Jabe didn't refer to the sources in his post. Maybe he could do that so we can judge whether there's any useful info out there or just hearsay or undocumented speculation?