Eclipsed Sounds at The NAMM Show (2026)
Hello everyone! It’s been a few weeks since the event, but now that we’ve caught up and gotten back to our regular development tasks, I would like to share some of our experiences from the NAMM Show this year!
Guests
Before I get into it any further, I wanted to extend a particular thank-you to our special guests this year, Jamie Paige and Vane Lily, who helped make the event an absolute success. Each of them went above and beyond taking time at our booth to do some live editing within Synthesizer V Studio 2 for attendees to watch and understand a bit of what goes into making high-level works with our vocals! We could not be more grateful for their attendance and help. Of course, I can’t forget to thank unit.0 and Sleppu for their attendance and absolutely vital assistance in engaging with boothgoers! As always, their ability to keep the energy at the booth going during exhibit floor lulls or huge waves of attendees never ceases to both amaze and save us. I absolutely can’t thank our guests or my fellow team members enough for their hard work this year.
Dreamtonics' booth this year drew in quite the crowds showing off Vocoflex and Synthesizer V Studio 2's vocals, with a particular focus on the new choir voices.
Collaborators & Colleagues
As with each NAMM Show over the last few years, we were also glad to meet with our colleagues from Dreamtonics and AH-Software over the course of the show. Although our booths weren’t exactly adjacent, during the exhibit period we may have worn a path in the carpet with the healthy flow of traffic each of our booths sent the other’s way. As always, their booth was fantastic, and the demonstrations of both the choir voice databases and Vocoflex were something for which I frequently walked interested booth visitors from our spot over to theirs. I hope the show was fruitful for them as always, and we promise we’ll hold onto those display copies safely for future shows!
On a personal note, I also wanted to thank Mike Greene from Realitone for consistently coming to visit us over the years. It can be very overwhelming as a small business at the Show, and his encouragement has always meant a lot to me on a personal level. I was very grateful to connect with him during our first year at the show, and always look forward to speaking with him every year. I also mention this because it’s the only way I can think of to sneak in a mention of the new KODA Sampler that the folks at Realitone were showing off at the show this year, which I think is personally very interesting, and would also encourage our synthesized-instrument-enjoying users to check out!
We're holding onto the display copies of both our own as well as Dreamtonics and AH-Software's Synthesizer V Studio vocals displayed at the show in our storage - we'll be sure to bring them back safe next time!
Attendees
This NAMM Show, we were fortunate to meet many people who are already enthusiastic users of our vocals! Some of my favorite memories of the show this year are when people took us aside on the show floor to pull out their phone or laptop and play some of the works they have made using our voices. I was so lucky to be able to help a teacher who creates vocal reference tracks for his students work around the dictionary feature to save some time in his busy schedule, chat with an attendee who we talk to every year when they decided this was the time to get even more invested in Synthesizer V and our vocals, and to listen to works from a user truly passionate about ASTERIAN who found our booth in just the very final minutes of the show floor being open.
We were also very happy to see how much of a splash our newest vocal REMMANT made this year at the show! From feedback and requests last year, we knew he’d be significantly appreciated by many of the users who visited our booth, but what we couldn’t predict were the huge smiles that instantly appeared upon listeners faces after hearing him just for a moment. I suppose it’s Mick Cori’s absolutely charming charisma that can’t help but win over anyone, and I was so glad to see that in action.
This year, we gave out stickers and vocal cards as in past years, as well as a new pen. We were quick to distribute every pen on the show floor this year, and ran out early each day.
Freebies
This year, we continued to give out vocal cards featuring the beautiful artwork from Superstellar, stickers with the adorable illustrations from c0nill, and for the first time, pens featuring silhouetted versions of that artwork! While NAMM has been absolutely wonderful for us year after year and connected us with some amazing people, something must be magic about those pens, because the traffic we saw just coming to pick up a pen alone was overwhelming! Humor aside, thank you so much for the reception to our freebie this year, and letting my luggage weigh a few pounds, and few hundred pens, lighter.
That’s all for our wrap up of this year’s NAMM Show! Thank you so much to everyone who visited our booth this year. While we didn’t have a mysterious teaser or bombshell announcement this year, the consistent booth attendance and excitement from attendees, many of which had never even heard of vocal synthesizers at all, made it just as exciting as, if not even more than, every other year.
Thank you all!
- Taylor Hennessy, CEO