SONIC TALK - Inside Music Technology

Rich Hilton joins us from the road with Chic - he met Paul McCartney last night - as you do. We talk Sam and Ash AURAS MPE enabled Kontakt library, Smooth Criminal on barrel organ, Soma Labs PULSAR-23 drum machine, and how we like to sonically mess things up, Zynaptiq Intensity.

Robbie Bronnimann joins us after an absence of a while, we talk Waldorf picking up the Valkyrie VA synth now known as Kyra, Paris Monster - drums and synths, Output Arcade - the loop synthesizer, and loops and performance in general.

A rare and welcome visit from Dave Spiers of Gforce Software joins Gaz Williams and Steve Hillier on the panel this week, We talk custom pianos inspired by the Tanked item for Piano Works in Rochester NY, massive reverbs, Spitfire Audio LABS free instruments, and the Momo Korg Volca Keys editor

Sonic TALK 534 - Killing A Mosquito With A Phonebook

Charles Reeves joins us after 2 months on the road with OMD, we talk Moog Grandmother, Miclop CTRL-X, Nodes new live album and Loopops excellent Superbooth 20 Synths in B flat

Back from Superbooth - the highlight of the show year so far, more of a convention than a trade show, but with many products shown for the first time. We cover what we can, bit there was a LOT!

With Gaz Williams, Jamie Lidell and Rich Hilton - We talk Moog Subharmonicon, the amazing Susan Rogers, Noise Makers Ambi Verb HD, Dreadbox and Digitakt updates and more.

Jamie Lidell is back with us from Nashville, and we're back from Musik Messe - after a lot of walking. We talk products  - Valkyrie, Steinberg/Neve interfaces, Clagnuts, Studiologic Mixface and ROLI Swam, orchestration and more.

Sonic TALK 529 - Hand Me Down Computers

We have a new guest in the form of Jamie Lidell, former Warp artist, vocalist, producer and songwriter based in Nashville, we talk about his career, computing power, wax cylinder archives, Dreadbox Medusa and more.

We talk Midi processing, Eurorack cases, Google nSynth, Roland 808 cloud and subscription models in general, Softube Console 1 and Cubase.

Sonic TALK 526 - TR-8S, Spinal Tap and Minimalism

Sonic TALK 525: When You Meet Genius

Sonic TALK 524 - Hybrid Modular + Gibson

Sonic TALK 523: The 5 Million Year Render

Sonic TALK 522 - NAMM-a-LAMMA-Neutron

With Charles Chicky Reeves and Yoad Nevo As we head toward the NAMM show (next week from 24th Jan), Arturia release a bunch of stuff, Moog announce the DFAM and we also look at the interesting Enchancia MIDI Ring, touchscreens in studios, and the generally talk about the upcoming NAMM show.

With Rich Hilton, Gaz Williams and Charles Chicky Reeves - We catch up with Charles - just back from OMD and Howard Jones tours, talk Behringer - UB-Xa, VC340, Roland's new R-07 portable recorder, Ableton artist video featuring Katie Gately - found sound composition, Intel (and other chips) security issues.

We start with new years resolutions, then the Facebook and Universal Music Group content deal and what it might mean, Caitlin's Modular lessons, (apologies for the break in transmission), the Razer Project Valerie laptop, cloud based sample library services - Splice, Loopcloud and Noiiz.

With Yoad Nevo, Rich Hilton, Dave Spiers and Chris McCleod First up happy holidays to you all - thanks for listening/watching - and also thanks to our panelists, who continue to give their time up to join us each week. We start with the guests' choices for best 2017 gear, then U-he Repro 5, Sugar Bytes Aparillo soft synth, Sonic Manipulations Vibe Bar and finally a chat about cloud storage options...

We talk Audionamix Xtracks Stems, Arturia V Collection 6 and Buchla Easel, Moogfest Always On stream, Audio Swift Trackpad controller, Elastic FX and FX in general, Behringer's multi-synth leak.

With Yoad Nevo, Steve Hillier and Divkid ben Wilson - We start with the sad news of the discontinuation of the Dreadbox Erebus, the Tueno USB based analog synth, Electro Hamronix Volume pedal, Cableguys Halftime FX and Intellijel Rainmaker delay.

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