

SONIC TALK Podcasts
Sonicstate.com
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).
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Dec 18, 2014 • 1h 10min
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.

Dec 11, 2014 • 1h 16min
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?

Dec 4, 2014 • 1h 22min
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?

Nov 27, 2014 • 1h 15min
Sonic TALK: 384 - Drones and Cymatics

Nov 20, 2014 • 1h 9min
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.

Nov 13, 2014 • 1h 1min
Sonic TALK 382 - Comet Landing - Aphex Interview

Nov 6, 2014 • 1h 12min
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.

Oct 30, 2014 • 1h 15min
Podcast:Sonic TALK 380 - Noodling Gives You Wings

Oct 15, 2014 • 1h 11min
Podcast::Sonic TALK 379 - Editing Aretha ProTools Licenses

Oct 9, 2014 • 1h 20min
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?