31st Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards to Honor Don Was with Les Paul Award

The NAMM Foundation will once again promote the 31st annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards and the NAMM TECnology Hall of Fame on January 23 at the 2016 NAMM Show. The events honor the best in audio and sound production as well as the most impactful audio technology products from the last 75 years. Record producer and music industry executive Don Was will receive the 2016 Les Paul Award.

Following a preliminary presentation in Japan, at the InterBEE 2014 Show and the presentation at the Prolight+Sound 2015 in Frankfurt, Yamaha Professional Audio has announced that the new Rivage PM10 Digital Mixing Console will make its US debut at the InfoComm 2015 show, in Orlando. And Rivage will also work with the soon to be released Steinberg Nuendo 7.

Eventide has released the H9 Max, the ultimate addition to the acclaimed H9 Harmonizer stompbox line. Within the same physical hardware as existing H9’s, Eventide now ships all 45 currently-available processing algorithms pre-loaded, plus any new H9 exclusive algorithms in perpetuity, at no additional charge.

Yamaha announced the first of a new generation of large format digital mixing consoles at the InterBEE (International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition) Show in Japan. The new RIVAGE PM10 features a new TWINLANe ring network backbone, able to handle up to 400 audio channels at 96kHz, features the RY16-ML-SILK mic preamplifier with digital modeling of Rupert Neve Designs’ circuits and new effects by TC Electronic and Eventide.

A dongleless version of Eventide’s UltraChannel 64-bit channel strip plug-in is available as a free download for a limited time. Eventide’s new plug-in features micro pitch from the Ultra-Harmonizer, stereo delay and a pair of dynamics processors and is free until midnight July 8, 2014. After that it will cost $249.