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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Our intrepid zeroes discuss DOS games, a free sequenced filter plugin, online learning, PSP's InfiniStrip, and the iPhone SE. And did someone say "cliche early-noughties soundboard"?? 

IN THIS EPISODE

​Tim made a soundboard
Buffy's Swearing Keyboard
Audiomodern Filterstep
Prince of Persia on Classic Reload
Oregon Trail on Classic Reload
Felix on Classic Reload
Ars Technica War Stories Series (YouTube)
Psych!
Skillshare
PSP InfiniStrip
​iPhone SE
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We're talking trackers, Ableton themes, and some shifty moves by Spotify and Soundcloud. Plugin round-ups in this episode include COVID freebies, free drum kit plugins and drum n bass plugins.

IN THIS EPISODE
Spotify drops support for third-party DJ apps
Trackers!​
Music Theory and Weekends
Soundcloud up to Pricing Changes
COVID Freebies: AAS Humble Bundle, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Plugin Alliance, Soundtoys Plugins, Audiomodern FilterStep
Abletonthemes.com
Free Drum Kits: MT-PowerDrumKit 2, Spitfire Audio LABS Drum Kit
Drum n Bass Plugins: Infonik RX950, AudioThing Reels, Neutron 3, Xfer Serum
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Another new DAW cometh while we're deep underwater, we read James's spam emails, catch up with some modern synths, sniff some musical intervals, and get glamorous with some more copyright cases.

IN THIS EPISODE
Behringer Confirm they're making a DAW
The Coronavirus is a thing
Tim's Self Isolation Article on MusicRadar
James's Junk Email
Yolanda Be Cool and Dylan Nathaniel vs Suburban Base
Starsky Carr Filter Sweep Copright Claim
AliveInTech's VR DAW, Tranzient, adds VST3 Support
kiloHearts Phase Plant
u-he Hive 2
Arturia Pigments 2
Audio Damage Continua
Softube Parallels
Free Minimoog app
Free Kaosscilator app
Free Cherry Audio Voltage Modular Nucleus Plugin
Sampleson Suit73
Tim on Music Theory

Tim and James talk tinnitus, open-source automated mastering, a DAW made in Excel, Coldcut's spaceship-style iPad app, more clipping and limiting, and the shocking news that the world's only movie composer has been recruited to do the music for the new James Bond flick.

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IN THIS EPISODE
T-Minus Tinnitus Relief App
Matchering 2.0
Coldcut Jamm Pro
Dylan Tallchief and his Excel DAW
Hans Zimmer does new Bond Film
Clipping Callback
Top Five Friday on YouTube

​Are all melodies now free to use? Acid Pro now comes with Serum. Behringer gets personal with the Cork Sniffer concept synth. Not another MIDI wearable.

IN THIS EPISODE
All Melodies are Public Domain Now?
Lady Gaga Copyright
Mashup: Metallica vs Scatman John
Acid Pro 10 Suite comes with Serum
iPhones Breaking and iSmash
Behringer's KIRN Cork Sniffer
The Music Fingers

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Crazy lyric generators, mouth-based orchestral ROMpling, driving while producing, and tackling the haters – Behringer-style. Elsewhere in this episode, it's EXTREME FOLLOW-UP, as we correct some mistakes and take some letters.

IN THIS EPISODE 
Man Produces Music While Driving a Truck
Universal Audio Luna: is it a DAW? (Comment Thread on YouTube)
Native Instruments Mysteria
​Ummet Ozcan Reveals Genesis Pro is 32-bit Windows-only (and uses a netbook)
​Uli Behringer on 'The Haters'
TheseLyricsDoNotExist.com
​Waves are doing Subscriptions Now
Outro: DJ Thermal, Recall

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