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

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

James struggles to retrieve audio while Tim struggles to chop it up, FL Studio 20.5 brings out new ideas, we leaf through Tim's PRS statement, and guess what? We're now on Patreon!​

IN THIS EPISODE
Roger Linnterview
We're On Patreon
Tim's search for batch audio chopping
James's new office
FL Studio 20.5 and Flex
Random Kontakt Instrument Corner: inoui samples Very Close Piano 2
Tim's PRS Statement
Waves Bass Fingers again

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Massive X is finally unleashed upon the world, and there's a lot to talk about as we demo the most anticipated synth ever. Elsewhere, we fill in Hans Zimmer's backstory, check out Waves' new bass ROMpler, and Tim plugs a new/old track.

IN THIS EPISODE
Massive X
Hans Zimmer working with BMW
Waves Bass Fingers
Chromatic ft Tim Cant, The Prayer

What are the best 15 plugins in the world right now? What does gammon love about reel-to-reel? And most importantly, how are Tim's Sonic The Hedgehog Slippers wearing in?​

IN THIS EPISODE
The Best 15 Plugins in the World Right Now
Neutron 3
Sonic Slippers
Reel-to-Reel (not linked, screw those guys)

Tripping balls, spinning wheels, talking business, and remixing a remix. It's all in a fortnight's work for the world's worst synth pundits.

IN THIS EPISODE
Sumerki Project’s ‘Hardware Diva’
Sumerki Project’s ’Hardware Sylenth1’
Taktility.com
Ableton 10.1
Sonic Bloom Ableton 10.1 Shortcuts
Ableton ShowDeviceSlots
Studio One 4.5
Buchla Acid Trip (via MusicRadar)
Buchla Acid Trip with video (via Synthtopia)
Gamechanger Audio MOTOR Synth
Business Douchery, American Psycho Style
A4P Sirian Bank Remix - A Massive Deal
JVNA - First Storm (Spotify)
JVNA - First Storm (YouTube)
IK Multimedia UNO Synth (again)

Bandcamp offer crowdfunding for vinyl, Behringer news overload, Steinberg Retrologue as a hardware synth, and sexed-up laptop chat. 
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IN THIS EPISODE

James got a new laptop
​Bandcamp does Vinyl Crowdfunding
​Behringer DS-80 (CS-80)
Behringer Solina String Ensemble (or lack of)
Behringer UB-Xa
Behringer RD-808
Behringer RD-909
Steinberg Retrologue vs ELK MusicOS

James and Tim limber up for some competitive beat matching in the Soundgym, discuss the history and future of Acid Pro, and have a gander at IK's UNO Drum. Also Pokemon and Nicholas Cage – what could go wrong?

IN THIS EPISODE

Detective Pikachu
James Hates Films
IK Multimedia UNO Drum
Soundgym BeatRace
SoundIron UFO61 Giveaway (see below)
Magix Acid Pro Next
Native Instruments Blocks Base

​The year is 2069. If you lose or damage your iLok, you die in real life. Imagine a direct debit stamping on a human face, forever. But plugins alone turn the wheel of history, and the unlikely pairing of an alt-right crypto-fascist and a beret-clad Antifa soy soldier, armed with Kinder eggs, are the only thing that can save the human race from subscription dystopia. 

IN THIS EPISODE

James and Tim's Kinder Egg Toys
XLN Audio XO
The JR XO Review for Attack Magazine
IK Multimedia UNO Synth
James's UNO Review for Attack Magazine
Native Instruments Super 8
Steven Slate Interview
Airwindows Plugins
One Day We Do Patreon Jah?
Arturia V Collection 7
Yamaha float the idea of a CS-80 comeback
Behringer float the idea of a CS-80 comeback

We get our ears on Massive X, praise ValhallaDelay, check out XLN Audio's exploratory XO drum machine, and discover the techno album on a Sega cartridge.

IN THIS EPISODE

Native Instruments Massive X: Oscillators Preview
Tracktion Waveform 10
James Covers the News for MusicRadar
Tim's In-Studio Videos for Computer Music and Future Music
Gloucester Services (FML)
ValhallaDSP ValhallaDelay
James's ValhallaDelay Story
​Airwindows Plugins
FabFilter Timeless 2
Remute's Techno Album for the Genesis/Mega Drive
XLN Audio XO

What did Elon Musk upload to SoundCloud? Which Analogue Compressor is most like Amy Winehouse? How do 25 new Ableton Live skins sound? The answers to all these useless questions, plus a round-up of 2019's rolls-eyes April Fools moments, and a mighty fine interview with sound design pro Francis Preve, are all contained within this succulent episode.

IN THIS EPISODE
Elon Musk, RIP Harambe
Native Instruments Noire
James's Galaxy Instruments Interview
Piano Day
*Bitsonic and ProducerSpot Keyzone Classic
––APRIL FOOLS DAY STARTS––
Korg Volcassette
Mercuriall Audio 
Ableton ReChorder
LeftyFretz Fender Ambicaster
JoYo Footheramin
Hypershop Mother of All USB-C Hubs
SoundIron Flatulus
Jordan Rudess Geoencabulator
––APRIL FOOLS DAY ENDS (FINALLY)––
Arturia Three Compressors You'll Actually Use
* Sonic Bloom Ableton Live 10 Skins
Video Version of Sonic Bloom Listening Test
* 2getherAudio K1CK Synth
INTERVIEW: Francis Preve
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SympleSound
Francis Preve on the Instasnaps

Back for a chat attack with pro sound designer Francis Preve. Catch the first part of the interview as part of Episode 29.

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SympleSound
Francis Preve on the Instasnaps

We've got synths coming out of both ends this episode, as we take a look at Softube Parallels, more news on Massive X, and loads more. Elsewhere, we have an exclusive call with Aphex Twin about his work on the Bass Station II, and Tim holds court with bass music father figure Hervé.
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IN THIS EPISODE
Tim Using Battlefield Footage in a Video
Self YouTube Banning
Softube Parallels
Massive X: More is Revealed
Rising Jake Studios Telephone
MusicRadar's '25' Best Synths, 2019
Aphex Twin Up The Bass Station
Process.Audio Sugar
Puremix.net
Nembrini Audio LoFi Vintage Clipper

Interview: Hervé

​We're stepping things up this episode with two new parts of the show: a software giveaway with discoDSP, and a classy producer chat with Charlie Bierman, aka Break. Elsewhere, there's Zithers aplenty, a new remix project, and a sonic exploration of the TB-303.

IN THIS EPISODE

James's Music Thingy
Paranoid Android: The Meta Mash-up
James's Master Paranoid Android Playlist
Giveaway: DiscoDSP Discovery (See Below to Enter)
The Death of Keith Flint
Interview: Break
Random Kontakt Instrument Corner: A Psaltered Zither
Roland Cloud TB-303 and Acid Techno First-Timer Sesh