SONIC TALK - Inside Music Technology
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Music Technology discussions - from the inside. With regular contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other industry insiders. Sonicstate.com hosts are joined by others for the latest news and trends in technology that affects the creation and distribution of music - and a few tasty stories from the studio too. Video is streamed live every Wednesday on YouTube at 4pm UK time. More information (sonicstate.com/live).
Episodes
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Jun 8, 2017 • 1h 3min
Sonic TALK 494 - iMac Pro and AudioFuse
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.
May 25, 2017 • 1h 3min
Sonic TALK 493- Roland Have Something Cooking
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.
May 18, 2017 • 1h 3min
Sonic TALK 492 - making the Hippies Happy
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.
May 4, 2017 • 57min
sonic TALK 490 - Fyre and Reason
Reason now has VST support, Sonic Couture's Electro Acoustic - drum library, Aphex Twin's Avril 14th unexpected success, the catastrophic Fyre Festival.
Apr 27, 2017 • 1h 14min
Sonicstate TALK 489 - Superbooth Aftershow
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.
Apr 13, 2017 • 1h 2min
Sonic TALK 488 - Post Musikmesse Roundup
We're back from Musikmesse and ready for Superbooth in Berlin next week, we talk about the Waldorf Quantum, NonLinear Labs C-15, Aaton Digital Cantaar X-3 field recorder, Tascam's cassette deck, AVID S6L desk and AAS Objeq delay. PLus rumours and releases at Superbooth. And a mention for Gforce Software's new RE-STRINGS Rack extension Vintage String Machines.
Mar 30, 2017 • 1h 2min
Sonic TALK 487 - Optigan and Breakages
We start with the excellent new Optigan demos by Johnny Largo uploaded to Pea Hicks' Optigan.com, Native Instruments acquire Metapop.com a remixing fee and collection service, breakages - accidental, Musik Messe and the System 100. Note: No show next week (April 5th)
Mar 23, 2017 • 53min
Sonic TALK 486 - A Spigot Into Your Wallet
We start with a short tribute to Sister Sledge vocalist Joni Sledge who sadly passed away recently aged 60. Then we talk of the new reduced cost, A9 processor equipped iPad, then we focus on the new Roland Cloud service, Analog Strings from OUTPUT, Steinberg release VST SDK on Linux, a discussion on Technostalgia and future classic synths, with a short interlude into the Pink Trombone mouth emulator.
Mar 16, 2017 • 1h 5min
Sonic TALK 485 - No, I Said Shed Load
We start with Rich and Robbie's take on the new Behringer classic synths clone announcements, then the Tim Exile SLOO Reaktor instrument, Blokas pisound audio midi io head board, Townsend Labs Sphere L22 modelling mic, the ADAM S series DSPO equipped monitors. Rich shows us his new ROLI and MainStage setup, Robbie talks about his use of Apple's live performance system.
Mar 8, 2017 • 1h 14min
Sonic TALK 484: Send In The Clones
We talk about the classic EMI12345 MKIV desk that was used for Dark Side of the Moon recording, its up for auction - then we're on to the talk of Behringer's talk of making an affordable Minimoog clone, then its the Deckard's Dream CS80 rackmount clone, the Arp 2600 sample library from Samples From Mars, and generally getting inside an instrument, whether it be hardware or software.
