First news from NAMM is trickling in. Akai has announced a new version of their APC line with the APC20. This is essentially half of the previously released APC40 from last year. The new APC20 features everything but some send effects, additional knobs and the crossfader from its older brother.
From the press online it [...]

Korg has announced an updated version of their popular Kaossilator. The Kaossilator Pro is basically a step up from last year’s model and is analogous to the MiniKP and its bigger brother the KaossPad 3.
The Kaossilator Pro takes the same basic hardware specs and idea of the KP3 and focused on a sound source rather [...]

Alright, so we are now a good week into the post announcements for the new Macbook Pros and I suppose everyone has had some time to digest the changes to the hardware. With the new announcements there have been a couple of changes to the hardware that could potentially have a pretty large impact on music producers. Being that Macbook (Pros) make up a pretty good chuck of the producer laptop market, lets take a look at some of those changes.