We get tired of Valentine's Day sales, check out Soundcloud's new system of royalty payments, and have a look at some vibey new instruments.

Elsewhere in this episode, Tim talks about his Roland Cloud saga, and we make reference to having sex with animals two separate times. The first person to find them both wins a pencil.

IN THIS EPISODE
Plugin companies keep trying to cash in with Valentine's Day sales
Tim bought the SSL ChannelStrip, DrumStrip and Talkback
Focusrite's FAST Compressor, FAST EQ and FAST Reveal plugins have Sonible AI technology
Sonible's smart:comp, smart:eq et al
Siri and Cortana give us some production advice
Ableton Live 9 is a pain to authorize
Focusrite's The Collective plugin subscription thang

Soundcloud's Fan-powered Royalties aim to make artists' payments fairer
The Grauniad's article on Soundcloud's Fan-powered Royalties
French study finds that 10% of Spotify and Deezer revenues go to 10 artists

Thenatan Vybz – the nostalgic strip that tickles our retro fancies
AudioThing Reels, AudioThing VinylStrip
XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color
Multi-effects are getting more specialized

RKIC: Audiofier Ekorain is a Kontakt instrument inspired by rain

Tim's Roland Cloud saga, featuring the JD-800, D-50, Roland Zenology, and JV-1080

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Ableton Live 11 is wife material; LANDR's new video conferencing service for musicians actually looks kind of like an OK idea; and we begin the quest for the ultimate utility plugin.

IN THIS EPISODE
Tim reports from deep, deep inside the Ableton Live 11 beta. How's the comping? Is there a comb filter? You're about to get those answers you really wanted
LANDR Sessions is a video conferencing solution with a plugin attached
We want to create a plugin called Ultility (or Alltility) which would be the ultimate utility plugin. What features would be in the world's greatest utility plugin?
Recent and future music-making times

Our blood is boiling thanks to subscriptions, MIDI biodata sensors and hippies as we look at Reason+, the MIDI Biodata Sonication Device, and a new Greenpeace sample pack. We also check out a new distortion plugin, discuss PRS's backtracked tariff hike, and get down to talking teeth.

IN THIS EPISODE
James's tooth issues
Tim gets inside the Ableton Live 11 Beta
Reason+ is the new version of Reason, and it's a subscription service (as well)
A toddler wrote an album? Of course not! It's more aleatoric MIDI generation
Delta Sound Labs' Fold is a new distortion plugin
Greenpeace release a sample pack… and a music competition
Tim and James's recent favourite retro consoles
PRSformusic backtrack on their proposed livestreaming charges

Musical burnouts, musical buyouts, and musical dropouts. We're back after a few weeks off, but has it been productive? Has it balls.

IN THIS EPISODE
James has a new phone
James went on the excellent Tunelighting podcast
HEX Drum giveaway winners
We now both have Slate VSX Headphones, Steven Slate Audio's room and speaker emulating hardware/software package
Christmas break
Musical burnout
Native Instruments more fully acquired by investors. How could the quality of the musical instruments possibly decline? Of course it won't, there's no precedent for that sort of thing when people who are solely interested in money take over a company.
​Tim's vinyl release IS HERE

We made it into Feedspot's Top 35 Music Production Podcasts list. Feedspot helps you keep up with multiple websites in a single place.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Spotify offers lower royalties in exchange for playlist exposure
Angie C plays TONTO with her mind
Amazon releases guitar pedals within the AmazonBasics range
Mac vs PC: the ever-spiralling argument
Brain – the 'intelligent synth' plugin by Thenatan
SM57 appreciation – the MusicRadar story
KVR Reader's Choice Awards 2020

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IN THIS EPISODE
James's Slate VSX Headphones arrive
We check out the Musiversal platform for hiring session musicians for $99 a month
The Create/OS Record Deal Simulator lets you work out how much artists actually get from a record deal
How much do the seven top streaming sites actually pay per stream?
Scope Labs' Periscope is a microphone, a compressor, and a Cluedo murder weapon.
Apple's M1 Chips: a few verdicts from around the internet

Three new instruments – Matt Tytel's Vital, AAS Chromaphone 3 and Oblivion Sound Lab Hex Drum – are under discussion this episode, as well as the chilling (and final) end to the mouse saga.

This episode is sponsored by iZotope. You can get 10% off your order at izotope.com/appetite by using the coupon code appetite10.

IN THIS EPISODE
Tim's mouse situation is over, for now
Vital is a new free wavetable synth (with some paid options too) by Matt Tytel
We're taking a break over December Break – Patrons will still get episodes on-schedule
Oblivion Sound Lab's HEX Drum – email us to enter a giveaway or something???
iZotope Vinyl has been updated and we take it for a [sigh] spin. Check out the video version here.
Applied Acoustic Systems' Chromaphone 3, beloved by James – Video here!

DAW updates turned up to 11, new Macs on the horizon, and we get visual with a sound quiz.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Tim's mouse problem 
Getting bored by Ableton Live's version 11 update
New Silicon-based Mac releases from Apple
iZotope Iris 2 Quiz (Video Version Here)
Free Plugin Deals from Plugin Boutique
Cubase 11 makes us not so bored as Ableton did

One free compressor, five free filters, and a wind sound generator are on-test this episode. Elsewhere, we're talking about 45 million clams, a felted piano, and Tim's battle with a horde of mice.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Tim has mice in his house and can't deal with it
Tokyo Dawn's Molotok is a free compressor that makes you more attractive
Tonsturm Windmaschine: much better than blowing into a microphone
Imagiro's Piano – a felted piano plugin by a clam – and it's $20
Output raised $45M for… something? (MusicBusinessWorldwide story)
Output also sell studio desks with laughable delivery prices
Five Free Filter Plugins
– BPB Dirty Filter
– TAL-Filter 2
– Audiomodern FIlterStep
– AudioThing FilterJam
– HY-Filter 3 Free

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IN THIS EPISODE
General update on the podcast
James's 'Sort Out Your Plugins Folder' article for MusicTech
​Tim's new phone, new OS, new glasses and new nostril hair trimmer
AutoTune is now available on subscription
EncoreMusicians' Study: The Majority of Musicians are Considering Quitting
EncoreMusicians.com, featuring harpists and more
Herman Miller’s Gaming Chair (not wanking chair)
and Herman Miller’s £1000 Desk
​Tim's new turntable and his quest for the ultimate Amen

A new platform for downloading free plugins, the first Minimoog emulation ever, and a sub-only synth with more under the surface. Elsewhere in this episode, we're checking out a MIDI controller made out of joysticks, and wondering with car Steven Slate drives. Oh, and we sell T shirts now.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Sonisto free plugin database and installer software
iZotope Neoverb – AI reverb with Auto-Cut, Unmasking and unique reverb blend
iZotope Neoverb Video (sponsored)
Native Instruments Super 8 released as a VST3  plugin. More to come?
We sell T shirts now!
Steven Slate Audio VSX: Headphones with match room emulation software
Ableton Live 10 Lite is available for free on Splice until the end of the year
Flight of the Navigator soundtrack
Iceberg Audio The Sub: Simple sub bass synth with Drive and Glide
Joyst: The MIDI controller that's made out of joypads
Softube Model 72: The first Minimoog emulation plugin ever made

Kylie Minogue's learning Logic, Tim's learning music theory, and Behringer are learning how to squeeze guitar pedals into a Eurorack format. Elsewhere, we're chatting about a new compressor with over 50 styles, UVI's creative EQ, and the possibility of a mini Prophet-5 synth.

Tim's attempts in music theory
IK Multimedia MixBox
Behringer Float the Idea of Eurorack Guitar Pedal Clones
A.O.M. Nu Compressor
Kylie Minogue Learns Logic
UVI Shade
PikoPiko Factory Prophet-Mini
Roland TR-6S

Two new synths from Newfangled Audio, James is nonplussed about the new Maschine, iZotope RX 8 scrubs up well, and which 90s hits will be remembered for millenia to come? [Please not Chumbawumba]
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IN THIS EPISODE
Fender's Mojo Grip again
SIR Audio Tools StandardCLIP​
Newfangled Audio Saturate
Venn Audio V-Clip
LVC-Audio Clipped-MAX
Reggles10 – Soundcloud tracks from a Clam
Native Instruments Maschine+
Newfangled Audio Pendulate (Free)
Newfangled Audio Generate
The Pudding: Defining the 90s Music Canon
iZotope RX 8 Advanced
LetiMix GainMatch

Free plugins are streaming from every orifice this episode, but we've still got time to catch up with the biggest music software news around: Native Instruments' Komplete 13 will bring Guitar Rig 6 with it, iZotope RX 8 aims for squeaky-clean new heights, Softube have released another synth, and there's a plucky little rubber sleeve waiting for denunciation.

This episode is sponsored by DistroKid. For 30% off your first year of DistroKid membership, head to https://www.distrokid.com/vip/a4p

IN THIS EPISODE
James interviewed Thijs out of Noisia
Butch Vig Drums
James’s Tutorial for Butch Vig Drums
Softube Statement Lead
iZotope RX 8
Fender Mojo Grip
Free plugins
– Manny Maroquinn
– Reason Lite
– ProjectSAM The Free Orchestra
– UJAM Carbon and Trash 2 at PIB
Native Instruments Komplete 13
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 Pro

Episode 69 Jubilee Special! Tim and James discuss the cancelling of NAMM 2021, Vangelis and E-mu's sonic sources, a  reverb plugin with balls, and new platforms for making music together.

IN THIS EPISODE
Episode 69 Jubilee Procession
NAMM 2021 is cancelled, goes virtual
Freakshow Industries Mishby (Trailer)
Sonible smart:reverb
Digital Systemic Emulations Emulator I plugin
Blade Runner / OMD comparsion video
Lion Youth, Rat Cut a Bottle Dub
Emulator II Star Trek sample
Sample in Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain
Person who seems to have found the sources originally
Elk Audio OS
Elk Audio's Aloha System
MixBucket (Alpha)

Yet another AI unmixing program steps forward, Soundcloud offer paid auto-mastering on uploads, and meanwhile, Tim and James sit down to do a music crossword and discuss the secret to musical happiness, pre 9/11.

This episode is sponsored by DistroKid. For 30% off your first year of DistroKid membership, head to https://www.distrokid.com/vip/a4p

IN THIS EPISODE
Infinite Feedback: Price Fixing, Free DAWs, Clam Sample Pack?
Steinberg SpectraLayers 7
Soundcloud Offer Mastering Services
Attack Magazine's House Music Crossword
Pre-9/11 Happiness Music
Outro: Meridian, World Line

4000 genres, one free DAW, and millions of clams paid in fines. All that and more are under discussion from your two favourite cynical talking heads.

IN THIS EPISODE
New DAW Alert: Akai Pro MPC Beats
Rhizomatic Plasmonic - New Video
Ambient Music
Tim's Blue Mars, Green Mars and Red Mars Playlists on Spotify
James's Focus Tones Playlist on Spotify
EveryNoise.com
Impact Soundworks InSIDious
The CMA fines Roland, Korg, Fender, Casio
Roland Specifics
Korg Specifics
Clipping

A cinematic scoring competition proves a little too low-resolution, Native Instruments' Stradivari Violin plugin proves the company isn't stuck in the past, and Studio One 5 proves that you should never put a number in a product name. What more proof could you possibly want?

IN THIS EPISODE
Kidney Stones
Spitfire Westworld Competition Winner Announcement
VI Control Forum Post
David Kudell (Rimrock Media)
Hans Zimmer 8-bit Master Class
Native Instruments Stradivari Violin
Studio One 5
Admiral Bumble Bee: 20 Things I Hate About Ableton Live

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IN THIS EPISODE
Elsa - ​Papa Please Don't Go
Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song
Tim's Computer Backup Disasters
Jean-Michel Jarre plays a gig in VR
Sega Game Gear Micro
Tim plays Minecraft now
Deleting Tracks
James's week of free music work?

Silicon-based computers threaten to slightly change the way we something; Stutter Edit is back… again; an electric piano/nylon guitar hybrid plugin; and a stereo-conscious, EQ, compressor and Saturator.

IN THIS EPISODE
​Apple's switch to ARM Silicon processors…
…and why musicians should care
iZotope StutterEdit 2
Sampleson ElectroNylon
Oblivion Sound Lab OSL Side Effects
OUTRO: Michal, Stretch

Melodyne 5 arrives alive, the ultimate stereo plugins, a new FM synth that you build yourself in your DAW, Softube's entry into the world of big amp sim packages, and ten minutes on ear wax.

IN THIS EPISODE 
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Ear wax
Faded Instruments Slimer FM
Celemony Melodyne 5
Cableguys ShaperBox 2
Devious Machines Duck
iZotope Ozone Imager 2
NoiseAsh Stereo Finalizer
AudioModern FilterStep
Softube Amp Room
Outro: Arps - I Can't Tell 

Facebook want your basslines for their new scat-sharing app, Roland Cloud invent the pay-once subscription plan, and we stuff our blowholes with Spitfire Audio's whalesong plugin. Elsewhere, we chat about ambient music, and discover new effects from FabFilter and ValhallaDSP.

IN THIS EPISODE
Facebook Collab platform
Plugin Boutique Scaler 2
Roland Cloud Lifetime Key Purchases
FabFilter Saturn 2
Arturia Oberheim OBXa V
ValhallaDSP ValhallaSupermassive
Ambient Music
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Tim's 12 epically self-indulgent ‘90s electronic music tracks to luxuriate in during lockdown
Spitfire Audio Granular Whalesong

The best vintage synth plugins, the best free synth plugins, a new piece of hardware to control them all, new stuff from Behringer, and the 50 Cent book. Wait what?​

50 Cent's *** Little Book
48 Laws
Massive X Pansions
Tim's ​Advanced FM Article with Dexed
MP MIDI Controller
Behringer's Jam Concept
Behringer's Mono/Poly
Top Five Friday: Vintage Synths
WA Production Imperfect
D16 Group LuSH-101
AAS Ultra Analog VA-3
Arturia Mini V
u-he Repro
​What's your Favourite Synth?
​Matt Tytel HELM

Tim talks about "possibly the most innovative plugin I've ever seen", James is very excited to talk about peas, there's a plugin effect featuring a worm now, those clowns in congress are legislating for crate digging, the Apollo missions are slightly delayed, and Scatman is the in-joke that won't go away.

IN THIS EPISODE
Peas, and the unbearable lightness of lockdown
WA Production Punchy Worm
​XLN Audio XO
James's spam email again
Citizen DJ by the Library of Congress
ApolloInRealTime
WaveTracing SP950
Lou Bega Scatman and Hatman
Tim's Elder Scrolls, Skyrim and Resident Evil 6
Outro: Dan Burridge, Take It