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2014 episodes (44)

Sonic TALK 387 - Surf Rock With Gaz

Sonic TALK 387 - Surf Rock With Gaz

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, the new Roland AIRA TR-8 7X7 sound pack and finally in interesting debate on the merits of a real orchestra or sample instruments.

Sonic TALK 386 - Write The Themetune

Sonic TALK 386 - Write The Themetune

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?

Sonic TALK 385 Dangling Coupons + Cubase Pro 8

Sonic TALK 385 Dangling Coupons + Cubase Pro 8

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 383 - Adamski and 3/4

Sonic TALK 383 - Adamski and 3/4

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 381 - Everything Is Great - Emerson Modular

Sonic TALK 381 - Everything Is Great - Emerson Modular

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.

Sonic TALK 378 - U2 vs Radiohead

Sonic TALK 378 - U2 vs Radiohead

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 vision of the future of touch is with Microsoft but are we all just beng conned?

Sonic TALK 377 - Reason 8, U-He Bazille, Live Events

Sonic TALK 377 - Reason 8, U-He Bazille, Live Events

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.

Podcast:Sonic TALK 375 - Tara Busch

Podcast:Sonic TALK 375 - Tara Busch

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.

Sonic TALK 374 - NI S-Series Kontrol

Sonic TALK 374 - NI S-Series Kontrol

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 369 - The 30 Grand Limiter

Sonic TALK 369 - The 30 Grand Limiter

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.

Sonic TALK 357 - Are You Feeling Lucky?

Sonic TALK 357 - Are You Feeling Lucky?

We are joined by Rich Hilton who is literally fresh off stage from his Chic gig in China and back in his hotel, the internet holds out. Also new this week is Andy Hunter, a DJ and collaborator with Robbie on Sushi Friday Music. We start with a new purchase by Gaz - the Belking Thunderbolt port replicator, then the article on Forbes about how earbuds have changed the way we mix - do the panel agree? Then The Keith Emerson Moog Modular announced at Moogfest, TapeOp magazine on what makes a good engineer, and the Synthetic Things- and their ode to Moogfest. And finally PhonoPaper iOS musical barcode app.

Sonic TALK 356 - Werkstatt and Moogfest

Sonic TALK 356 - Werkstatt and Moogfest

In the week of Moogfest we discuss the Ashville Electronic Music event, and the monosynth Werkstatt, the Pringles Organ - is it real? iVCS3 and XILS3 - two VCS3 emulations for iPad and desktop, plus a bit of creative gear usage and application improvisation.

Sonic TALK 355 - D-50 Sampling a Sample

Sonic TALK 355 - D-50 Sampling a Sample

First we look at the new Waves Vitamin plugin, then Imogen Heap's Glove project, the furore surrounding the Binary Music D50 Kontakt intrsument and the questions thrown up by sampling PCM based instruments. We then discuss the nature of bad impulse purchases.

Sonic TALK 353 - The Fool?

Sonic TALK 353 - The Fool?

We talk April Fools, which 303 is best, best recent technology acquisition, Earhoof app for iOS, Billy Corgan's 8hr synth jam and various other avenues of conversation.

Sonic TALK 352 - Bitwig!

Sonic TALK 352 - Bitwig!

Today we wonder what happened to jamming - has technology surpressed that activity, Positive Grid Final Touch - mastering app on ipad, Peavey Revalver 4, Bitwig, is it possible to position sounds vertically in a mix, and best merch.

Sonic TALK 347 - Modular and Here Comes AIRA

Sonic TALK 347 - Modular and Here Comes AIRA

We're in reminiscent moode today as we first enjoy the excellent trailer for Dope Matrix, then we celebrate 30 flippin years of Steinberg, and all the memories it excavates as you can imagine given the cummulative experience of our panel its a rich vien of material. Then we talk about the forthcoming AIRA series from Roland, and I struggle to contain myself - I have several of them here for review right now!