Appetite For Production Podcast

#51: NAMM Flashback 2020

1/26/2020

A new DAW comes to town, MIDI you make with your mouth, and the horrific story of generative music made by tortured plants. In this episose, we scrape the last crusty remnants of NAMM 2020 off our flip flops the only way we know how – by taking the piss.

IN THIS EPISODE
Universal Audio Luna [New DAW Alert]
Gluten, Vegan Food, Shortening Pastry, Grass and Sand, Tofu Babies
Pro Tools 2020
Vochlea Dubler
Plantwave
Slate Digital Infinity EQ

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#50: Workstationy Beast

1/12/2020

Pianos that listen to you in the toilet, Audio Damage's new, healthy grain-based synth, PluginGuru's plugin-hosting plugin, and the long-awaited (by Tim) arrival of the Korg Triton plugin. See you in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

IN THIS EPISODE
2020 Resolutions
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Chernobyl miniseries
Roland GO:Piano Features Alexa (video)
Korg Triton Plugin
Audio Damage Continua
PluginGuru Unify

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#49: Never Go Colour To Music

12/29/2019

Soundcloud makes a dingus of itself, LANDR gets inspired by the colour blue, Boss releases some unfortunately named headphones, and 2020's production horoscopes are revealed from the synthesis ether.

Warning: this episode gets a little blue

IN THIS EPISODE
Soundcloud's Reduction of Uploadables
Soundcloud's Retraction of the Reduction of Uploadables
Dropbox, Gmail, etc
Waves Emails
LANDR's Classic Blue Sample Pack (Pantone Colour of the Year)
Pantone
Panettone
Manor House Cake
zplane deCoda
Sampleson Push
Your Production Horoscope for 2020
Boss WAZA Air

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#48: Ain't No eLicenser When She's Gone

12/15/2019

James and Tim discuss Nexus 3's sky-high price plans, debate MusicRadar's 25 best synths, munch on some clam-flavoured canes, and crap all over Amazon's misguided auto-composition technology. Elsewhere, Timmy's Workstation Corner threatens to destroy everything you hold dear about classic Korg and Roland units.

IN THIS EPISODE
Archie McPhee Clamdy Canes
James with Clamdy Canes in all Holes
MusicRadar's 25 Best Plugin Synths 2019
reFX Nexus 3
Roland Cloud XV-5080
Korg's Gadget Triton?
Tone2 Icarus2
Amazon's Objectively Shit AI Music Tool
Talk To Transformer

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#47: Groove Is In The Heart [Patreon Only]

12/7/2019

Too hot for TV and everywhere else we put these things, this episode brings together some of the stuff we couldn't bring ourselves to publish on the main podcast feed. In this episode, Tim teaches James how DJing works, we rip the piss out of a new MIDI watch, and finally – the races of humanity are ranked as to their electronic music making prowess.

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IN THIS EXCLUSIVE EPISODE

The new Sonic The Hedgehog Trailer
Disney's Subscription Service (boo)
Rob Hubbard on Retro Tea Break
Native Instruments Traktor S3
Tim on How to DJ
Groove is in the Heart
Jean-Michel Jarre's new Music App
The Analogue Pocket
GripBeats: The Latest Bullshit MIDI Controller

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#46: MIDI Should Not Be Played Outside

12/1/2019

Tim and James discuss MIDI 2.0, start the Uli Behringer Didn't Kill Himself conspiracy, reluctantly catch up with Black Friday 2019, get juiced for another dodgy MIDI controller, and explain the art of psychoacoustic multiband neonatal white noise.

James interviews Icicle
James interviews Anthony Baldino
James interviews Brett Porter (MIDI 2.0 Extremo)
MIDI 2.0
Behringer Register Loads of Trademarks
Tim Cant - Spiritual Insight Mix
Wave - virtual concerts for some reason
Back Friday is Black
Affinity Designer
Soundtoys Plugins
oeksound (soothe and spiff)
Maag EQ4
Melodyne 10 Years of DNA
Orba – the hemisphere of lost faith in humanity
Psychoacoustic White Noise
Credland Audio Pink

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#45: The Ultimate Artistic and Intellectual Challenge

11/17/2019

James made a plugin trailer, Deezer made a free stems isolator, and Sampleson made an emulation of something that never even existed. In this episode, we're splitting stems, creating custom vocal tracks, and adding new gods to the pantheon of Jump remixes.

IN THIS EPISODE
Sampleson 1959
Emvoice One and Lucy
Deezer Spleeter
Spleeter on Github
Jonny Sender's Jump / Funky Town Remix
Reuben Cornell's No Scrubs / Lola's Theme Mash-up
The Return of Spleeter (Emvoice Insomnia)
reFX Nexus 3 is coming
The Return of The Return of Spleeter (Steal My Sunshine)

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#44: A Thing of Earphones

11/3/2019

Democracy will triumph in the KVR Readers' Choice Awards, Elton John is handcuffed to a radiator, James Fs S up on MusicRadar. We're not afraid to address the hardest hitting issues of our generation.

IN THIS EPISODE
James covers the news for MusicRadar (again)
James's Reason 11 Review
James's Ambient Kontakt Instruments Round-up
Elton John's Tour with Peex rX
KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2019

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#43: Covered in Bread

10/20/2019

We check out a synth that does all the things, the home vinyl recorder that no one asked for but everyone seems to want, and a new recreation of everyone's favourite throbbing organ. Elsewhere, we're checking out the new Launchpads, and having ourselves a Catalina whine mixer.

IN THIS EPIODE
Sampleson Things
IK Multimedia Hammond B-3X
Phonocut - the Home Vinyl Recorder
Splashtop
Novation Launchpad X and Launchpad Mini
FabFilter Pro-MB
macOS Catalina

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#42: Changing the Way We Uuh

10/4/2019

The Analogue/Digital war is finally over thanks to robots, we trace some curves with Cankleguys PaperBox 2, the ultimate hand clapping plugin awaits, and we change the way you think about changing the way people think about things.

IN THIS EPISODE

Access Analog
Compressorhead
Changing the way we Uuh
Papalguys BakerBox 7
Robotic Bean Hand Clap Studio
RKIC: Bunker Samples Gongster's Paradise
Banning YouTube with Stayfocusd

#41: Anti-Research

9/22/2019

One strategy for low Spotify royalties, two questionable things that Tim claimed as business expenses, four new things from Roland, and eleven Reasons to turn a DAW into a plugin. Add it all up and what do you get? Two douchebags and 57 minutes of low-quality entertainment!

IN THIS EPISODE
Max Payne
Tim's Questionable Tax and Expenses
Esthero Interrupts Herself on Spotify
Esthero, Gimme Some Time (on Spotify)
Spotify Buys SoundBetter
What A4P Listeners Listen To
Listen to Weird Al Yankovic (on Spotify)
RKIC: Riot Audio Bowed Glass Clouds
Roland Aerophone Mini
Roland JU-06A
Roland Jupiter-X
Roland MC-707
Reason 11 is a Plugin Now
Korg's Pokemon Tuners/Metronomes

#40: Tired and Elegant

9/8/2019

Tim and James inspect a guitar-to-synth app, recent Teenage Engineering exploits, an ASMR Kontakt instrument, and the view from the world of bidness.

IN THIS EPISODE
Yonac RoxSyn
Armin van Buuren's Jump Remix
DJ Ham & DJ Poosie, Master Peace (Uses Jump)
Teenage Engineering & Panic, Playdate
What's on James's Steam?
Teenage Engineering Rick & Morty Pocket Operator
Random Kontakt Instrument Corner: ASMR 4K
Sono Elements RetroByts
Steam Remote
Domino's Pizza??
Focusrite buys ADAM Audio
Etsy buys Reverb
Ableton CV Tools

#39: Gotta Have a Big Red Button

8/25/2019

Smooth electric pianos, Arcade MIDI controllers, Spotify bails on uploads, and Waves releases a small novella about a man who uses all legit plugins and gets amazing mixes. Meanwhile, we dredge the Katy Perry vs Flame case back up from the dirty river bed where it belongs.

IN THIS EPISODE

Tim in America
Steinberg Studio Session with Deru
Avalon on Spotify
Tim's Snap of Vin Diesel's Star
The Japanese Garden
Taco Bell
Katy Perry vs Flame again
Inphonik RYM2612 Mega Drive Plugin
Sampleson Glassy
ParadiseMIDI on Instagram
Loopmasters Loopcloud 5
Spotify bail on Spotify for Artists
Waves's Your Mix Sucks, by Marc Mozart
Outro Music: Sumerki Project, Snow Day (from Space Cats)

#38: First They Came for the Robin Thickes

8/11/2019

Katy Perry vs Flame, Phase Plant vs Massive X, Mac vs PC, and fake drums that sound good versus fake drums that sound like absolute crap. Elsewhere, there's game music gone orchestral, MIDI processing, and a virtual plastic bottle instrument.

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IN THIS EPISODE
A4P on Google Street View probably? (coming soon)
James's NI Drum video
Native Instruments Drum Lab
Sony's AI Drums is not intended to replace musicians and does not sound good
Flame - Joyful Noise
Katy Perry - Dark Horse
Tim's foray back into Windows
Link's Awakening on Switch
Phase Plant vs Massive X
Trackbout Ripchord
RKIC: Hidenori Matsuoka PET Bottling 3

#37: Passionate About Referencing

7/28/2019

Waves put Abbey Road in a plugin, Jackson Parodi puts his MIDI controller into the wrong hole, and Spitfire Audio put the entire world into one soundbank. James and Tim, meanwhile, put it all into a single episode.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Aphelion made some Formula 1 engine sounds
Jackson Parodi 'plays' Goldeneye
Spitfire Audio ORBiS
David Fanshawe
Waves Abbey Road Studio 3
What's your Biggest Weakness in Music Production? (Tweet)
RKIC: SoundIron Laundronium
RemixHits
Outro: Johan Lundin, Warm Blood

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