SONIC TALK - Inside Music Technology

We start with the IceWorks Mersenne Percussive synth, Eno's new album the Ship, Morricone oscar, Sonicstate Bristol gig sold out, Bluetooth MIDI from Yamaha and MIDI Thing, the Bela embedded audio/dsp board running on Beagleboard, Eventide Octavox, Stalactite Organ, AUM iOS mixer.

The massively successful Kordbot Kickstarter campaign is our first topic, then the extremely weird robotic drummer arm from Georgia Tech, the work of Barry Gray and our recent interview with Charles Hazlewood and Adrian Utley that Gaz shot which leads to some interesting stories from Mark and Dave, our Sonicstate Live @Bristol gig on the 26th March, and finally Rich Hilton joins us from Maui, wher...

Some real tech of the future stuff here, with the Tangible Interfaces of Sean Follmer, Apple's Music Memos, the future of Soundcloud, Zoom/s lovely F8 recorder seems too good to be true, patchbays and the Pacthulator 8000 and a little bit of Tasty Chips ST4

We get more of the panel's NAMM thoughts, then the Roland EL Cajon, Flutter EP from Sound Dust and we enjoy Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner's work on the soundtrack for The Revenant, and Dave announces his MIDI spoons.

Sonic TALK 435 - After NAMM Now What?

In this Sonic TALK special, we talk to Eric Persing of Spectrasonics - legendary sound designer and synthesist whose career spans some of the major changes in synthesis and music technology

We start with a reflection of the great David Bowie - Rich Hilton worked with Bowie on Black Tie White Noise and has a unique insight into his creative process, then its on to NAMM stories - Clavia tease something piano-ey, Dave Rossum is building EMU style modules, Akai are asking if we want an AX73 reissue.

We welcome 2016 with our first show of the year. We talk Mogees rhythm system, New Years resolutions, Immersive Audio Magic Ball mic system, and a little bit of NAMM chat.

Last show of the year, Gaz actually joins us from a Christmas Party! After the panel show and tell their latest gadgets, we talk Mariah Carey trapped in a MIDI file, Misa Digital super step sequencer, Modstep iOS sequencer, Blue's Star Wars Mics, Nanosynth NS1 - micro modular.

A rare and welcome appearance from composer PJ Tracy, joins us to discuss the Native Instruments Una Corda piano Kontakt instrument, Red Martian gets his stuff pressed to Edison wax cylinder, the panel also discuss their choices for gear of the year. And Gaz tries to convince PJ to dive into Ableton Live...

Sonic TALK - 429 Bright Sparks Project

Sonic TALK 427 - Kick Drum Through A Squirrel

We start with a look at the DBX GoRack, a portable PA enhancing solution, then Tim Exile's Reaktor 6 based instrument Flesh, the panel disclose a few of their favourite utilities, the Mandala V3 drum pad system, and Markus Fuller's Boutique JP-08 teardown.

We talk to Deep Forest's Eric Mouquet about his journey into electronic music from early beginnings to the hugely successful Deep Forest project - which merged ethnic soundscapes with chilled beats over many albums.

After hearing about Ty's new synth arrival (John Bowen Solaris), we get on to the Ableton news - Push 2, Live 9.5 and The Link, UVI Falcon - the new software instrument and also Stephen Slate's VMS Virtual Microphone System - which could be set to revolutionise mic usage.

Interview with Rachel Claudio - youtube version: https://youtu.be/unvd6M_r7Y4

We first look at the new Zynaptiq UNMIX, a tool for processing drums when in a mix, ACPAD MIDI controller for acoustic guitar, Halloween sounds and pranks, MOTUS motion music device and a bit of El Capitan talk.

We talk about the new Keith McMillen Instruments K-Board Pro 4 MPE controller, Jean Michel Jarre's Electronic 1 release, Eventide Anthology X, on Back to the Future Day, our panel ponder what they'd like to see 30 years from now

We enjoy 8-bit Guy's history of early game and computer sound generation, the panel all use some sort of room correction, we explore their effectiveness, the Axel Hartmann new synth tease, Edd Shearan first song to reach 500 million streams and the Korg Liverpool.

You can tell Summer is over - the releases are coming thick and fast. We talk about the new Novation Circuit groovebox, Moog Mother 32, semi modular and of course the Akai MPC Touch.

Sonic TALK 420 - Location Location Location

We start with a healthy does of Roland Boutique range after details were leaked online over the weekend, before the official launch., then Marc Doty tells us about the Mini Moog raffle and how to get PWM on a Mini. We're then on to the new Sensel Morph, a sensitive touch input device, a great performance from Rachel Claudio, then we ponder the work of Jaques Attali and the Crisis of Proliferation.

Sonic TALK 418 - Boutique, Mother 32, UA USB3

Nice to see Non Eric back after a long while, We start with a look at Google Street view of Real World Studios, Logic 10.2 and Gobbler, cloud storage in general, Reaktor 6 drops - what are NI up to? Sample Logic Gamelan library sounds sweet, Gaz talks Holy Mountain soundtrack.

Sonic TALK 416 - Knobcon And Zac Efrons Donkey