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
​

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
​

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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In this patrons-only episode, we're listening to Elon Musk's new track, getting in deep on clipping, flashing back to the MiniBar at NAMM, and revealing some new synth and drum machine plugins.

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IN THIS EPISODE
Elon Musk Wrote (another) Track
James’s Steven Slate Interview
Bristol Aquarium
Tim’s LMC Lecture and Computer Troubles
Tim’s Clipping Obsession
NAMM 2020: Rainger FX MiniBar Liquid Analyser
TAL-Sampler
NAMM 2020: Krotos Concept
Sugar Bytes Drum Computer

Two new synths, two unusual effects, and one very, very, very grumpy old man guide us through this episode, which also sees us checking out Behringer's new gear marketplace and the Wonder Woman trailer.

IN THIS EPISODE
Ummet Ozcan's Genesis Pro
Neil Young is a
NAMM 2020: Rhizomatic Plasmonic
Free Music Tribe
Wonder Woman Trailer
UJAM Finisher Neo
Voxengo CRTIV Shumovick

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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