Sonic Talk Podcasts

With Rich Hilton, Gaz Williams and Mark Tinley - We ask what if anything tempted the panel on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, the Eventide MangledVerb, Erica Synths chat with JMJ, the Soma Laboratory Pipe, why telephone hold music is so bad, and the Poly Expressive MIDI Foot Control.

With Rich Hilton, Gaz Williams and Steve Hiller - Sad news about the shut down of Cakewalk by Gibson, new features outlined in the new MIDI spec at ADC, Swan Audio file sharing, Copenhagen Strøm subway gig, Sledge 2.5.1 OS, Teenage Engineering R.

We talk Bandcamp for releasing music, Cubase Pro 9.5 release, Sinevibes Eternal barber-pole flanger, Ultimat Percussion K2-X wuth Synthesizer Keith, Endorphin.es Shuttle system now supports MPE, Synthetic Sound Labs 5U Modular FX Capacitor. iZotope Ozone 8

Happy Birthday to Rich Hilton! We are also joined by host of Musotalk.de - Non-Eric who has some interesting findings on building a hackintosh, we start with the news of Ableton Live 10, then Korg on Nintendo Switch, the Anatal Electronics X-Bay modular patchbay system with integrated Eurorack synthesis, VR and online musical collaboration.

Native instruments just got €50 million investment, Youtuber Andrew Huang came out about his Eurorack system, Soundtoys Outer Limits sound pack, Pioneer DJS-1000 performance sampler.

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We start with the new iZotope Ozone 8 mastering software, AI and machine learning and what we'd like to see from it, Ableton Live going 64-bit only, Reon Driftboxes, Rich spots a Big Bird, The Academy using latency for a live performance looping, Gaz has a Kordbot, have you seen Bladerunner 2049 yet?

Gaz Williams, Steve Hillier and Charles Reeves - We start with the new Yamaha Genos music workstation, then songwriting in general, Quiet Art Recorditor, Unfiltered Audio Sandman Pro, Nigel Stanford's Automatica then the iConnectivity PlayAudio12.

Reason 10 is announced, A Tasty Pixel's SampleBot, Spitfire Audio's Hans Zimmer's Percussion library, the 1939 Voder speech emulator, Bjork's new album, Thompson Holiday's Evolution of Dance Music infographic, the new Apple stuff.

We talk Embertone Joshua Bell solo violin, the Tasty Chips GR-1granular synthesizer, Roland SPD-SX special edition, Eventide EQuivocate, Sonible EQs, Waves Factory Track Spacer, Waves Torque Drum Tuner, Vocaloid.

So it was a Boutique D-50 after all, VCV Rack free modular emulation system, Izotope Spire, Bastl 60 Knobs, Battle of the Beatmakers - beat battles.

New guest in the form of experienced producer and songwriter Steve Hillier, we start with the sad news that Walter Becker (of Steely Dan) has passed away, then we talk Moog Subsequent 37, Roland's September Experience and the trailed D-50, PatchCad patchbay labelling system.

We start with the Amper AI and Taryn Southern collboration, then on to the Max4live Iota Granular Looper, Making a violin, DSI Rev 2 desktop, the amazing Inception cover from John Heath using just a MiniBrute, Korg Mono/Poly iOS and the ZVUK9 Midi controller - 9 X/Y pads with complex control. We finish with a little in-ear monitor chat.

Rich Hilton and Divkid. We talk about Steinberg's HALion and its ability to compile instruments for their free player, Aphex Twin and Tatsuya's chat, Dreadbox Medusa, Ultimate Patches JD-Xi soundset, Bastl Softpop and library music. Note: No Live show until 2nd August (Episode 500)

We start with Rich's experiences playing the pyramid stage at Glastonbury with Chic, then on to the UVI Ravenscroft high quality piano for iOS, Grammy winner Robert Carranza love his Tascam Porta One cassette multi-track and still uses it which leads to a discussion on gear we still use and gear we wish we'd kept.