Sonic Talk Podcasts

Back to a full panel this week, first we talk about the new Vangelis film with a clip of live improvisation, then the drum machine collection of Joe Mansfield, then the Kiwi Tech Juno 106 CPU upgrade, finally we help Mark decide if he needs a Guitorgan in his life.

We start with an interesting talk by Gareth Jones on the challenges of mixing for small devices, Elektron's new Analog Keys, the Skoog in the Apple store, Godley and Creme's Gizmotron and finally the Linnstrument from Roger Linn.

We're joined again this week by Non Eric from Musotalk who has procured an iPad Air - he shares this with us, we then talk about the Korg Little Bits synth kits and Patchblocks Kickstarter project, we drool over the current Vemia vintage electronics auction, and finally we discuss the live coding composition techniques of Andrew Sorensen.

We start with Apple's latest announcements new Mac Pro, iPad Air and the approach of IT Singularity, then what would you put in your electro 1950 jukebox? Boris Blank's Fairlight is up for sale, Thunderbolt PCI chassis and general thunderbolt-i-ness. Gaz flashes his white Maschine Studio prior to our review

First up, we are in HD! Or what they call HD ready anyhow, all our panelists are coming in on separate Skype machines and I'm on HD video for super quality. We discuss - the beautiful new Avid S6 control, but it'll cost ya. Then the news of Moog discontinuing the Little Phatty - whats a classic? The Puc Wirelss MIDI and the Analogue Solutions Telemark V2 and finally, a shirt startup sequence from a 737 airliner gets us thinking.

This week we first celebrate Clif Richards (Sir) 100th album, then Chas Smiths amazing metal instruments as used by Hans Zimmer in Superman - Man of Steel, Squarepushers Z-Machines robot composition, and a gel speaker from Harvard boffins.

This week we start with the sad news of George Dukes death and celebrate some of his finest moments. Then we enjoy Benge's Twenty Systems - a collection of pieces represesnting the history of synthesis, then a bit of light releief with the LOL studio engineer sketch, Nick shows off his Korg MicroKorg USB key - the less said about that, the better, then we talk Tequila and Whiskey...

First up Nick warns against backing up to comrpessed disk images on OS X, then we head over to Phase57 for a look at Asiohead's hand built poly synth Ambika from Mutable Instruments. Then we talk of the Strymon El Capistan delay pedal, a good match for analog synths according to Mr Spiers, then we we talk about the amazing sound mapping project Aporee, a compelling Raspberry Pi audio application from Servando Barreiro using Pure Data, finally to fade or not to fade.