SONIC TALK - Inside Music Technology

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.

Sonic TALK Fairlight Special

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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.

Sonic TALK 502 - Game Of Drones

Sonic TALK 501 - Boutiques, Zoom Livetrak

Sonic TALK 500 - The Big One

Sonic TALK Special - Jason Donnelly Library Music Producer

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.

Just Gaz and me this week, we first talk about Gaz's current project then the new Arturia beatstep Pro firmware update, Nenad Milosevics Ableton skin design, Glastonbury, Ouput Inc's Platform studio desk and Behringer's Model D price drop.

We of course discuss the new Roland Boiqitues Desigern series SE-02 - analogue mono synth from the collaboration between Roland and Studio Electronics, the Sound Semiconductor SSI2144 - analog VCF chip, Galaxsynth Pop Star Vol.1 vocal emulations, Making music with anything and sound creation.

We start with some insight into working with Grace Jones from Charles, the new ROLI Seaboard Block, Analogue Solutions Fusebox synth, question from Tom Gladstone - MIDI controller keyboard options, Sonnet Thunderbolt PCI expansion chassis, what gets you excited about new technology, Black Blaze cloud backup

We start with the new iMac Pro, Thunderbolt 3 is now license free, iZotope Spire, Arturia AudioFuse, Adam Borseti's Minilogue patches, Ableton acquires Cycling '74.

We wonder what Roland have got coming in June, Bastl Dude micro mixer, the musical talents of Louis Cole, what DAW would we choose if we were just starting out, and gas over the River multi-timbral poly from Baloran, some Dreadbox chat too.

We start with the sad news of Robert Miles death, the MP3 end of life, Moog IIIc reissue, Subsequent37, CellF Biosynth, Push Turn Move synth book, Bladerunner 2049.

Reason now has VST support, Sonic Couture's Electro Acoustic - drum library, Aphex Twin's Avril 14th unexpected success, the catastrophic Fyre Festival.

We are joined by Ben Wilson aka DivKid - who was at Superbooth as well, we talk of the show, starting with the Behringer Model D, Cirklon, Tonestar Roland Filter, MFB Dominion Club, 4ms SWN , Syntonovo, Elektron Digitakt, Jomox Alpha Base, Polivoks, Novation Peak and Mono Station, Ondomo Ondes Martenot, audio rate modulation.