The Frankfurt Musik Messe 2010 was from many aspects a special event for CopperLan.
After several years of development and quite a few beta versions of the SDK, at last we were able to issue a Release Candidate version.
We also made public the CopperLan Manager, a multi-platform application that allows viewing, connecting, editing, and storing settings for CopperLan setups.(freely available to download)

The display of actual commercial products using CopperLan was a source of great interest and excitement.
This is quite an achievement when one realizes that these were developed from a beta SDK. This tells a lot about the trust and enthusiasm of those companies towards our technology. They deserve our deepest thanks.

The dutch company Kiss-Box, specialized in installation equipment for show control, transport and interfacing had a 19" Octal MIDI to CopperLan rack mount unit.

Radio Systems (USA), a renowned provider of consoles and systems for the world of broadcast had a prototype of a modular mixing system with both hardware and software versions of its control units on display.
The whole system in its final configuration will premiere at the forthcoming NAB show in Las Vegas.
The demonstrations were carried out by inDSP, the company in charge of the product development of the system.

Ultimate Sound Bank (FR), is a software company known for its UVI sound engine being included into other companies synthesizers and sound players.
They were showing the forthcoming update of their UVI Workstation in its CopperLan capable version.

We will cover these products in more details when they are finalized and ready to go to market.

On the technology integration front, we had a Firewire audio system from ZP Engineering showcasing their know-how in integrating CopperLan control with audio streaming.

There are many other things brewing. The companies involved could not make it in time for the show.
Others developers just do not wish at this stage to publicly disclose their plans.

Besides these commercial announcements, we had a few more interesting items to demonstrate.
Thanks to the kind collaboration of Behringer who gave us one of their new flashy red UMX-250 controller keyboard, including code and schematics, we made it CopperLan.
Given our tight and busy schedule before the show, we weren't able to implement all the ideas we had in mind. Nevertheless, the instrument was able to play in true CopperLan way, with on-the-fly individual keys tuning, and doing step sequencing with gating dissociated from the melody steps, each running at its own pace.

Camille Troillard, the independent developer behind Osculator, "the" OSC swiss-knife software, wrote us a Wiimote to CopperLan application. This allows a number of Wiimotes to appear on a CopperLan network as controllers acting on sound generators. Think of the fun of playing free pitch to software as easy as to CV/Gate analog stuff, all through a unified network.
There were also the complete set of CopperLan to/from CV/Gate modules we had at the NAMM.
To round up the set we had USB devices, host, MIDI interfaces, a demo VST/CopperLan plugin, and many more applets, each demonstrating a particular aspect of the technology.

But this Frankfurt was not just about us doing our show, we went to meet manufacturers, and many we met!
Those fruitful meetings will no doubt lead to product announcements using CopperLan.