Fresh off my recent trip to Los Angeles for the annual Namm show, I've got a head full of gear to talk about and I look forward to sharing it with you via this blog over the next few weeks. The Namm show is gigantic, it took me all 4 days to literally walk its entire floor. I did have a number of stops and meetings to make but suffice to say, I covered a lot of ground in those 4 days, blisters to prove it. Of all the guys from KAOS who attended, I had the job of focusing on digital music. This meant that I spent a large part of my time in one particular area of the show dominated by digital recording companies. While I was taken by many cool new products the overpowering theme of that area was the iPad. It is clear that the iPad is here to stay when it comes to making music. There were more apps then I had time to see but what I did see was great. Guitar amp modeling apps, digital recording apps, DJ apps, electronic music creation apps, karaoke apps .. etc. Beyond apps, there were tons of new products to enhance how you connect to the iPad. Mic pre-amps, instrument inputs, midi inputs, app controllers just name a few. High quality as well as lighter quality versions as well.

I suppose that every adult looks at their kids technology in envy but I really do think that my kids have a lot more cool stuff then I did when I was their age. Maybe my dad said the same thing. In any case, its a cool time to be into music and own an iPad.