Theater: Videos from Winter NAMM 07

Notion is an unusual, tempo-controlled notation program/sequencer that uses samples from real instruments. This video describes some of the ways that Notion has been used in live performance.

Numark's latest package is for VJs and DJs.

Ovation releases some classy Adamas guitars with various finishes, high-end VIP microphone-imaging preamps, and contour bodies, and also announces their new custom shop facilities, with more than 100 different options available to you when you "build your own."

Every year Ovation does a limited run, called the Collectors', and this year they're a couple of hundred dollars cheaper, but still include exotic hardwood inlays, a bear-claw top, high-end preamp, scalloped bracing, and all the other best features offered by Ovation over the years.

Taking the best of both worlds, Ovation combines their economical overseas manufacturing processes with U.S. setup expertise to produce the affordable Ultra series, including the onboard preamp co-designed by Melissa Etheridge and Al Di Meola.

This versatile blues axe features a chambered body, small humbuckers, a double-bound body and Peavey's patented tailpiece.

Peavey and guitar hero Joe Satriani have cooked up this miniature 5-watt class-A powerhouse, sporting a 12AX7 preamp tube and an EL84 output tube. It's perfect for recording or just getting a warm, authentic, vintage tube-amp sound at lower volumes. As Satch puts it, "I found that when I write, I get myself into situations where a class-A amp is what I need to make the track work. That led us to create the Mini Colossal."

Following on the success of the Windsor head and cab series, the Windsor Studio is an all-tube, class-A combo amp that takes any single octal-socket power tube - EL 34, 6L6, or 6550, and operates at 15 or 20 watts. Includes a power soak, record out, and speaker sim

Planet Waves updates their Chordmaster chord finder and tuner to include a metronome.

This ingenious "cheater" features a compound, hinged action that enables the arm to exert pressure straight up and down on the strings, with no side pulling (which causes the strings to go out of tune). The capo moves up and down the neck with ease, and easily clamps on the headstock when not in use.

Endorsed by Taylor Guitars, Planet Waves' new system for controlling the environment for your guitar's humidity features simple liquid-filled porous packs with ingenious chemistry.

Jazz guitarist Robert Conti wowed the crowds during his sets at the PreSonus booth, with all his performances recorded using the PreSonus FireStudio.

This "technology preview" shows Thor, the semi-modular synthesizer that will be part of a future update for Propellerheads' flagship program, Reason 3.0.

QSC's latest addition to the HPR series of powered live performance speakers boasts serious power and reasonable weight.