Sonic TALK 840 -April Fools, AI Vocals, Warm Digital, GAK BAX Gone

Guests

• Gaz Williams (gazwilliams.me) - Producer, bassplayer, music technologist

• Steve Hillier (stevehillier.net) - producer, songwriter, educator

• Aneek Thapar (aneek-thapar.com) - Music, Mixing and Mastering and Void & Vista

YouTube video version here: youtube.com/watch?v=NRiB6xjjeAw

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00:00:08 SHOW START

00:01:29 AD: SonicState Patreon (patreon.com/sonicstate)

00:02:17 Coming Up (sonicst.me/survey) Take our Survey and get a Free Muse/Super8/Mask1 Sample set

00:12:38 April Fools - Any good ones? (sonicstate.com/news/2025/04/01/fifth-fundament…)

00:18:18 AD: Komplete 15 (sonicst.me/komplete)

00:19:20 Ace Studio Vocals (acestudio.ai/?cl=a11) AI generated

00:37:04 AD: iZotope Cascadia (sonicst.me/izotope)

00:38:12 Least Sterile Digital Synth (gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instrumen…)

00:50:18 mrgum6y asks via - [youtube] - QQ As BAX files for bankruptcy and GAK is closed down - where are people going to buy gear? Is the golden age of cheap gear coming to an end?

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