SONIC TALK - Inside Music Technology

After the NAMM madness, its a small panel with myself Gaz Williams - we discuss the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators - which Gaz has recieved for review, I talk about the MS-20 Desktop kit with SQ-1 sequencer, we then move on to Ghost In the MP3 - a techniques used to find the difference between uncompressed and compressed audio (and video) which leads to a discussion about percieved audio qua...

NAMM Special - Guitars and Modular

Sonic TALK 391 NAMM Wrap Pt 2 Volca POlka

2015 Post NAMM Roundup

Podcast:Sonic TALK 389 - Damn! Its NAMM!

Sonic TALK 388 - Odyssey and A Synthex Please

We start off with an amazing live performance of Gaz's Surf Rock band the Rumble-O's live from the Cube in Bristol where they are setting up for a gig playing the soundtrack to 1960;s surf film, Endless Summer. Then we attempt to follow that with a panel discussion starting with the new Phenol desktop semi modular synth, then a quick chat about Christmas songs, Boomstars filter come to Eurorack, t...

Expert Sleepers MIDI expansion for a Silent Way - shows four microBrutes - old school poly, MiPuc gets and update, isnt it about time we had no wires? The super dense world of Black MIDI, sample rate accurate MIDI, what's it for? 10 Ableton performance tips sparks a chat about mixing setups in the DAW and finally - how important is a name?

We start with a discussion on a good starter vintage synth, thanks to Attack Magazine, then confession time - what did the panel buy on Black Friday, Cubase 8 new features and exciting upgrades, Wave Alchemy's free drum sounds made on an MS20 mini, the golden age of synthesizers - now or when?

Sonic TALK: 384 - Drones and Cymatics

We have a real treat in store with Adamski oon the show talking about his new direction of 3-Step - or 3/4 only music, whilst retaining his own contemporary feel, Softube Console 1, the dedicated channel strip controller, Din Is Noise - a hypnotic sound generation and synthesis tool now at version 13.

Sonic TALK 382 - Comet Landing - Aphex Interview

9:00 Moog 50th Anniversary Keith Emerson Moog Modular, 25:00 Yaybaha mad accoustic springstrument, 31:00 Woojer vibrating wotsit, 39:25 iZotope Ozone 6 compo, 39:55 John Carpenter Lost Themes, 52:30 massive modular patch from Cyrusrex via MuffWiggler,1:03:35 modular patch cables,1:08:15 Ozone 6 chat, 1:11:30 Oddity 2 news and compo.

Podcast:Sonic TALK 380 - Noodling Gives You Wings

Podcast::Sonic TALK 379 - Editing Aretha ProTools Licenses

We start by hearing from Robbie about his new film score gig, then we a look at the new Retronyms Wej iPad stand/hub/lighting effect - pre-sales available now, then the ramazing firmware hack for the Behringer BCR2000 form Zaq Audio which turns it into a sequencer, the 4Dsound performance system via Ableton live, why does Bono cause such animosity? The U2 giveaway vs Thom Yorkes release, Adobe's v...

We discuss Xhail, the new AI driven library music compossition and licensing tool, then Reason 8, U-He Bazille, Billy Elliot and live event streaming into cinemas and a few other topics besides.

Podcasts:Sonic TALK 376 - On Tour With Courtney Love

Tara Busch from I Speak Machine - a collective who make Scifi horror shorts with Tara performing the sound track live, has a gig at London's South Bank on Sunday (21st). We talk about the project and her process, we also talk about the new Korg Electribe and other new goodies just announced, iOS apps for synthesizer control and finally a quick round up of the panel's first commercial releases.

After a short Summer break we get right back into it with a lot of new gear released this month, starting with the NI Komplete Kontrol S-Series controllers, new Presonus rack RM16AI and RM32AI mixers, the Roland SBX-1 syncbox and HS-5 mixer, IK Midi Rig2.

Sonic TALK 373 - Chiptunes and Orchestra

Sonic TALK Special - Roger Linn

Sonic TALK 371- Dirt Cheap Drums

Sonic TALK 370 - Waves StudioGrid,MOTU AVB

A sweltering day here at Sonic Towers - we're talking of Klaus Schulze and an old performance video from 1977, classic tune recreation from KrypToneNZ and Peahicks, Yamaha's 40 years of synthesizers and what they should do to celebrate, Ploytec Pi2 gets formant voice synthesis and the Fairchild 670 limiter going for £30,000 on eBay.