SONIC TALK Podcasts

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.

Reason now has VST support, Sonic Couture's Electro Acoustic - drum library, Aphex Twin's Avril 14th unexpected success, the catastrophic Fyre Festival.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

We hear about Robbie's 80's Caribbean cruise, then we talk Colin Benders 12 hour modular jam, Propellerheads melody and hooks - leads to Ty telling us bout his recent BBC series score and the panel talk composition, then its Eventide's structural effect Fission andBetterTouchTool for latest Macbooks. Notes - thanks to Marc the Darc

We explore live rig redundancy with Will Doggett and Multitracks.com, then Tatsuya the ace synth designer is leaving Korg, Electro Harmonix Synth9 pedal and celebrating Clyde Stubblefield - the Funky Drummer.