
SONIC TALK Podcasts
Music Technology discussions - from the inside. With regular contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other industry people. Sonicstate.com editor Nick Batt is 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 at 4pm UK time (sonicstate.com/live).
Latest episodes

Jan 11, 2018 • 1h 10min
Sonic TALK 520 - Sample Everything
With Rich Hilton, Gaz Williams and Charles Chicky Reeves - We catch up with Charles - just back from OMD and Howard Jones tours, talk Behringer - UB-Xa, VC340, Roland's new R-07 portable recorder, Ableton artist video featuring Katie Gately - found sound composition, Intel (and other chips) security issues.

Jan 4, 2018 • 1h 10min
Sonic TALK - Adorable Modular Tuts
We start with new years resolutions, then the Facebook and Universal Music Group content deal and what it might mean, Caitlin's Modular lessons, (apologies for the break in transmission), the Razer Project Valerie laptop, cloud based sample library services - Splice, Loopcloud and Noiiz.

Dec 21, 2017 • 1h 11min
Sonic TALK 518 - Christmas Special
With Yoad Nevo, Rich Hilton, Dave Spiers and Chris McCleod First up happy holidays to you all - thanks for listening/watching - and also thanks to our panelists, who continue to give their time up to join us each week. We start with the guests' choices for best 2017 gear, then U-he Repro 5, Sugar Bytes Aparillo soft synth, Sonic Manipulations Vibe Bar and finally a chat about cloud storage options.

Dec 14, 2017 • 1h 13min
Sonic TALK 517- The Three Finger Drag
We talk Audionamix Xtracks Stems, Arturia V Collection 6 and Buchla Easel, Moogfest Always On stream, Audio Swift Trackpad controller, Elastic FX and FX in general, Behringer's multi-synth leak.

Dec 7, 2017 • 1h 19min
Sonic TALK 516 - Pluginspiration.com
With Yoad Nevo, Steve Hillier and Divkid ben Wilson - We start with the sad news of the discontinuation of the Dreadbox Erebus, the Tueno USB based analog synth, Electro Hamronix Volume pedal, Cableguys Halftime FX and Intellijel Rainmaker delay.

Nov 30, 2017 • 1h 17min
Sonic TALK 515 - Alexa, How Old is JMJ?
With Rich Hilton, Gaz Williams and Mark Tinley - We ask what if anything tempted the panel on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, the Eventide MangledVerb, Erica Synths chat with JMJ, the Soma Laboratory Pipe, why telephone hold music is so bad, and the Poly Expressive MIDI Foot Control.

Nov 23, 2017 • 1h 6min
Sonic TALK 514 - Cakewalk RIP
With Rich Hilton, Gaz Williams and Steve Hiller - Sad news about the shut down of Cakewalk by Gibson, new features outlined in the new MIDI spec at ADC, Swan Audio file sharing, Copenhagen Strøm subway gig, Sledge 2.5.1 OS, Teenage Engineering R.

Nov 16, 2017 • 1h 9min
Sonic TALK 513 - Cubase 9.5
We talk Bandcamp for releasing music, Cubase Pro 9.5 release, Sinevibes Eternal barber-pole flanger, Ultimat Percussion K2-X wuth Synthesizer Keith, Endorphin.es Shuttle system now supports MPE, Synthetic Sound Labs 5U Modular FX Capacitor. iZotope Ozone 8

Nov 9, 2017 • 1h 3min
Sonic TALK - 512 - Ableton Live 10
Happy Birthday to Rich Hilton! We are also joined by host of Musotalk.de - Non-Eric who has some interesting findings on building a hackintosh, we start with the news of Ableton Live 10, then Korg on Nintendo Switch, the Anatal Electronics X-Bay modular patchbay system with integrated Eurorack synthesis, VR and online musical collaboration.

Nov 3, 2017 • 1h 14min
Sonic TALK 511 - A Cool 50 Mill
Native instruments just got €50 million investment, Youtuber Andrew Huang came out about his Eurorack system, Soundtoys Outer Limits sound pack, Pioneer DJS-1000 performance sampler.