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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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

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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

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

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.
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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)

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