After three full days of event and so many (but so many) booths and conversations, I’m thankful I am not a journalist having to write a story (I used to be one).
There are probably as many Superbooths as visitors. In my case… I am interested in products offered by companies you can have a conversation with. Like Polyend (meeting the team was of course the main highlight). Like other small companies from Eastern Europe producing very interesting and rather experimental/innovative devices.
If money shows where the interest in the end goes, my winner of the event is https://electra.one/, which reopened orders two days ago. I’m looking forward to its deep Bitwig integrationmand I’m curious with which kind of plugins its small but growing developer communiry will come up with.
Other devices that I wanted to touch and hear their creators talk about were (in no specific order)
- the Traker Mini, of course,
which I found surprising how naturally it felt from the start - Aruba Beat Composer - Nektar Technology, Inc
- Dwarf - MOD Audio website
- InTech’s Grid controllers Menu
- OXI One - ALL IN ONE Sequencer and Performer
- Numa X Piano - Studiologic
- the three devices from finegear.net (ModMix, Dirt Magnet & Dust Collector)
- I bought me a suscription for synthesizermagazin.de with the intention to improve my German
- it was also good to say Thank You in person to Bjooks for PUSH TURN MOVE – BJOOKS
There was also this interesting idea about meeting synth YouTubers. It was fun to meet in person people I have spent so much time “with” (watching their videos) like the Bad Gear guy, Mattias Holmgren, the Mid-life Synthesist (from Chile, warm conversation in Spanish), and others.
Very special mentions to the conversations (interesting and about nothing specific) in person for the first time with people from the Bitwig and Dreadbox teams.
What I did not cover but it’s just me. I’m not interested in companies with big marketing budgets (I did check the KORG acoustic prototype because protos will always be protos, and they gave an interesting engineering demo). I’m not into modular, so this cuts… what, most of half of the surface? I’m not into synths with keyboards either (I spent my money in a very good keyboard controller instead). Mixers and effects devices trigger my GAS so I approach them like Ulysses did with the mermaids. 
