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  NAMM Wraps Up
This installment of inSync brings our Winter NAMM 2012 coverage to a close, though there are still many, many new products to talk about. We'll be bringing you those in our regular daily news going forward. In the meantime, be sure to enjoy our comprehensive online report as well as nearly 100 videos shot live on the NAMM show floor, which are posted at our YouTube page.

  Roland BK-5
The BK-5 arranger keyboard from Roland provides an amazing array of nearly 1,200 sounds, Musical Assistants, instant recording to USB, tons of built-in effects, onboard stereo speakers, and much, much more. 128-note polyphony gives you plenty of power to create complete songs and arrangements.

  Fender Super Bassman
With six 6550 power tubes onboard, you just know the Super Bassman head from Fender is going to crank! This all-tube monster bass amp puts out 300 watts of power wth two footswitchable channels, Vintage and Overdrive. There's a Silent Record mode and the tubes are auto biasing. If you need big power, big features, and big tone — whether nice or nasty — then the Super Bassman is the one you want for your bass amp! A full line of matching Bassman cabinets are also available, with configurations including 1x15, 4x10, 6x10, and 8x10, all with a compression-driver horn tweeter and neodymium speakers for super light weight.

  MXR M84 Bass Fuzz Deluxe
Every bass player needs a thick, fat, cutting fuzz sound in their arsenal, and the new Bass Fuzz Deluxe from MXR is the one to have for a couple of excellent reasons: first, it sounds incredible! It's been specifically tailored to work with bass, this is no second-hand guitar pedal. Second, it has separate level controls for both the dry (unprocessed) bass sound and the wet (fuzz) sound. Using these two controls you can dial in exactly the amount of saturation you want, from light "hair" to full-on buzz while maintaining the solid low-end punch you need for your tone.

  Eventide H3000 Factory Ultra-Harmonizer
The effects produced by the early-'90s Eventide H3000D/SE processor are classics. Now you can have all those sounds — we're talking the exact presets — in a native plug-in with the H3000 Factory Ultra-Harmonizer. Compatible with Audio Units, VST, and Avid's new AAX formats, this plug-in also has many new sounds, including many programmed by Richard Devine.

  FeelTune Rhizome SXE
Groove production for the next generation! The Rhizome SXE from FeelTune is based around a dedicated audio computer that you can interact with using 16 touch-sensitive pads and 32 rotary controllers. Four large displays tell you what each control is doing. Windows VST plug-ins are supported and a built-in 500GB drive provides plenty of storage for projects and sound files. MIDI I/O is built-in, along with balanced TRS audio I/O, an eSATA port, a gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI port, and a DVI port. But don't think of this as a computer, think of it as a dedicated groove-production instrument...new creative possibilities await!