SONIC TALK Podcasts

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?

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.

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.

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.