12 November Brooklyn, New York, will hold the 4th Synth Expo 2016 festival created by Main Drag Music music instruments shop in Williamsburg. The event will let the opportunity to all the visitors to get themselves familiar with the huge amount of various synthesizers, music gadgets, eurorack modules and effect modules from the best companies.

This year the festival organizators promise to introduce us to such synthesizer brands as Arturia, BASTL Instruments, Casio, Critter&Guitari, Dave Smith Instruments, Elektron, Eventide, HologramElectronics, KORG, MoogMusic Inc., Native Instruments, Novation, Roland, Soulsby Synths, Yamaha.

Three Wave Music shop, famous among musicians for its huge collection of the new and vintage instruments, will also present their production. The guests will see a widest range of keyboardless synthesizers made by Make Noise, Dreadbox, Studio Electronics, Waldorf; as well as eurorack modules made by 4MS, Antimatter Audio, Black Market Modular, Brownshoesonly, Dreadbox, Electro Acoustic Research, Intellijel, LZX, Make Noise, Malekko, Moffenzeef Modular, Moog, Mutable Instruments, Pittsburgh Modular, Qu-Bit, Roland, Rossum Electro Music, Special Stage Systems, Sputnik Modular, Studio Electronics, The Harvestman, Tiptop Audio, Vintage Synth Lab, Waldorf, WMD, ZVEX.

The two-day event will take place in 12-13 November.

But November is not limited with Brooklyn Synth Expo – San Francisco is going to hold Music Expo 2016. This is one of the biggest music conferences in which lots of musicians, composers, producers, instruments developers, DJs will participate – all those who are directly and tightly related to music.

This year the conference will give us about 30 thematical lectures and 800 participants among which are beginners and professionals. The event offers everybody the opportunity to gain new knowledge and to collaborate with the greatest instruments production companies. The evnt is truly for anyone who’s into music even if they are newcomers.

Among sponsors who brought to you Music Expo 2016 are Audio Plus Services, Chandler Limited, Dave Smith Instruments, Ex’pression College, I/O Music Technology, RADAR, Retronyms, Roger Linn Design, Sound on Sound, Universal Audio, YAMAHA, iZotope. Gearslutz, LANDR, Nektar, PreSonus.

Famous developers, engineers and musicians who are always in demand will deliver some precious lectures to the guests, that’s how the name list looks: Dave Smith, Roger Linn, Jay-J, Bob Duskis, Greg Landau, Lenny Kaiser, Matt Saincom, Mac Smith, Bill Mitsakos, John Duman, Patrick Brown, Casey Shafer, Stefan Aronsen, Dusty Wakeman, Piper Payne, Terri Winston, Jessica Thompson, Matia Simovich, John Cuniberti, Keith McMillen, Sarah Sexton, Alyssa Pereira, Claire George, David Sikorski, Adrian Spinelli, Brian Bonz, Priya Shekar, Michelle Threadgould, Chad Heimann, Jessi Frick, Zack Ruskin, Nahuel Bronzin, Sean Cascadden, Hee-Wah Wai, Patrick McGauran.

And of course the event which should be marked as a must venue by anyone who loves synthesizers – NAMM Show 2017 which will definitely be a smash. January is coming. The event will include music and audio products demonstrations, live preformances and entertainment for the visitors.

NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is a commercial organisation which allows the participants not only to enjoy the show but also to benefit from the music creation and the whole music industry. NAMM embraces the most important music products of the year offering thematic expositions, lectures and meetings as well. This is also kind of a springboard for the people willing to find and get the most actual innovations and designs, to promote their music. Many popular musicians including Stevie Wonder, Moby, Eddie Van Halen are the true old NAMM goers who share their experience and preferences concerning music instruments with the participants.

Anaheim will be ready to flood the news with the demos and details from NAMM 2017 as soon as the show starts. You’re invited – NAMM 2017, 19-22 January.