SONIC TALK - Inside Music Technology

Sonic TALK145 -Korg's Clean Sweep

Sonic TALK144 - Robot For Piano, Meece For Music

Sonic TALK143 - Jordan Rudess

Sonic TALK142 - River of Effluent

Sonic TALK141 - Modular, Desktop, Backup

Sonic TALK140 - Mackie M-Powered, Logic 9, Underworld App

Sonic TALK139 - Island Life/Is that Organ Real?

Sonic TALK138 - Baked Motorcycle, Broken Guitar

Sonic TALK137 - I'm Down With the Cloud

Sonic TALK136 - Sweaty Knees

Sonic TALK135 -That Friday Feeling

Sonic TALK134 - Largo Love, Acxel Antipathy

We start off with a little speech synthesis courtesy of Expressivo.com, then straight into the meat with the Jasuto modular VST and iPhone synth, the Autogun free VST synth with 4 billion presets, a new SEM module from Tom Oberheim, APC40 hysteria is sweeping the globe, and finally the heart-warming story of Island Records who this year celebrate 50 years in business.

Firstly we talk with Diego about his work and processes and equipment, then we're on to Henry Till and his messy room, Orbital to tour with a whole bunch of analog gear, then its the Rock-afire Explosion and obsolete technology which gets us on to the Epcot Center and Disney.

We start with a couple of mechanical oddities from the Mobius Strip music box, and the bizarre mechanical drum machine from James Taylor, we then move on to the Synplant - an organic instrument from Sonic Charge, Lady GAGA introduces the Virus Ti use in pop and also which instruments are currently dominating music, a quick chat about the Dragon MIDI controller and the ChineeSheng 3000 year old par...

Dave Robinson tells us all about the Eurovision massive production and the enormous redundancy they put in place, then it's the recent BBC Radiophonic Workshop gig at the Roundhouse in London, after which we suffer a network outage which sees me scrambling around for multiple re-boot - don't worry , we made it back on air, but minus Dave Robinson unfortunately. We then discuss the excellent docume...

Sonic TALK129- When Is a DAW Not a DAW?

Our topics this week begin with the excellent TANK-FX.com reverb processor, then we talk of Imogen Heap's recent improvisations live from Maui, AHNE (Analog Heaven North East) synth fest, then what are Propellerheads releasing on May 9th? We finish up with MOTU's new Volta analog-> Daw plugin which some say is set to set the world alight.

Sonic TALK127 - Lose The Tache Keef

Sonic TALK126 - That Woman

Our week begins with the release of Ableton Live 8, and the realization that we all need some Live in our lives, then it's on to an excellent video interive with NIN 's Trent Reznor, who really does appear to be a very switched on guy, after oggling all his analog gear, we turn our attention to the ridiculous prices that certain synths are getting on eBay and elsewhere, theres an opportunity to pl...

Sonic TALK 124- Musik MESSE and Live From Tokyo

This week we enjoy a pre Musik MESSE rumour or two, discuss the merits of stage diving for the super group after Chris Martin sprinted around the arena in Sydney earlier this month, then a couple of drum topics - the first in the form of the Silent Drum Controller, and then the wonderfully cheesy MiJam Air Drum Pro, we then ponder the new Dell Adamo and our own dream machines, and finish off with...

First up, we lament the imminent closure of Manny's Music in New York City - a legendary music shop, then it's on to the amazing Kutiman's Youtube video mashups, Spotify.com a new music streaming business model impresses some of us, then we enjoy a great speech on creativity and genius from TED.com.

After hellos we take a listen to some great tunes from Jen Scaturro at iamjen.com, then we're on to our least favourite jobs in the studio, Photosounder - the visual audio editor that allows you to process your audio in apps like Photoshop, boutique and special plug-ins are next, after which we discuss Prince's latest offering only available via Target.