SONIC TALK Podcasts

Robbie joins us from Long Island where's he's on tour with Howard Jones, we talk about the notion of the studio collective, as wonderfully illustrated by Kytopia in Utrecht, then Robbie spots the ARP Odyssey and we chat synths, Zynaptiq MORPH 2 brings us proper spectral morphing, Daito Manabe and his giant MS20 installation in Japan, Vince Clarke new modules, details on the HoJo Ableton Live setup and we close with some on tour laundry stories.

We start with the Accusonus Drumaton mic bleed eliminator plug-in, then on to more solid news on that Apple/Camel rumour, Ableton Live 9.2 beta starts, guitar tuners, including Mark's Tronical autotune system, non-linear songrwiting techniques, Gaz eulogy for the Waldorf Streichfett, Nick bemoans the drop in vintage MS20 prices, MIDI Widget kickstarter campaign and what will MIDI 2.0 need to bring.

After the NAMM madness, its a small panel with myself Gaz Williams - we discuss the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators - which Gaz has recieved for review, I talk about the MS-20 Desktop kit with SQ-1 sequencer, we then move on to Ghost In the MP3 - a techniques used to find the difference between uncompressed and compressed audio (and video) which leads to a discussion about percieved audio quality. StudioLogic's Sledge 2.0 OS, MIDI guitars wrap up the chat - plus you chance to win iZotope's IRIS 2.