Sonic Talk Podcasts

We are joined by Rich Hilton who is literally fresh off stage from his Chic gig in China and back in his hotel, the internet holds out. Also new this week is Andy Hunter, a DJ and collaborator with Robbie on Sushi Friday Music. We start with a new purchase by Gaz - the Belking Thunderbolt port replicator, then the article on Forbes about how earbuds have changed the way we mix - do the panel agree? Then The Keith Emerson Moog Modular announced at Moogfest, TapeOp magazine on what makes a good engineer, and the Synthetic Things- and their ode to Moogfest. And finally PhonoPaper iOS musical barcode app.

In the week of Moogfest we discuss the Ashville Electronic Music event, and the monosynth Werkstatt, the Pringles Organ - is it real? iVCS3 and XILS3 - two VCS3 emulations for iPad and desktop, plus a bit of creative gear usage and application improvisation.

First we look at the new Waves Vitamin plugin, then Imogen Heap's Glove project, the furore surrounding the Binary Music D50 Kontakt intrsument and the questions thrown up by sampling PCM based instruments. We then discuss the nature of bad impulse purchases.

We talk April Fools, which 303 is best, best recent technology acquisition, Earhoof app for iOS, Billy Corgan's 8hr synth jam and various other avenues of conversation.

Today we wonder what happened to jamming - has technology surpressed that activity, Positive Grid Final Touch - mastering app on ipad, Peavey Revalver 4, Bitwig, is it possible to position sounds vertically in a mix, and best merch.

We're in reminiscent moode today as we first enjoy the excellent trailer for Dope Matrix, then we celebrate 30 flippin years of Steinberg, and all the memories it excavates as you can imagine given the cummulative experience of our panel its a rich vien of material. Then we talk about the forthcoming AIRA series from Roland, and I struggle to contain myself - I have several of them here for review right now!