We are back! Easing ourselves into the New Year with a chilled sit down to discuss our new set ups and what the forthcoming year brings for our dawless adventures.

It's been quite the year for gear and music marketing. This week we discuss our favorite hardware, FREE software, albums and social media sites.

Thanks for making this such an incredible year and we hope you have an amazing holidays and new year :)

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AI continues its spread into every facet of our live, including that of music production. Izotope have just released a new delay plugin that supposedly uses AI to remove muddiness. Did we ask for it? No, Did they give it to us? Yes. Is there a point to it? Lets find out.

Sonic Bending Extraordinaire Frequency Control Centre joins us for this week's musings as we're checking out the specs of the new Polyend synth and pondering on whether it's up to the mark when it comes to synthesis.

Teenage Engineering recently came out with their new lil' Black Box - The OP-XY. Resident TE expert Eonlake returns so this is as good a time as any to peek at the specs and see whether we're vibing with it's eye watering $2300 price tag...

Our favourite music exploitation platform come out with another milestone! In the same year that they cut Artists' royalties, they announce a profit for the first time ever. Great news for the international corporation, though the people are less than joyous. We break it down.

Native Instruments have crossed our radar this week as they released Maschine 3. New avenues for exploration in the stem separation game has our ear perked up.

Black Friday season is upon us and so far we haven't been disappointed!

This week Elektron announced their Digitone II so we're taking a peek at what we can expect. Also, Bluesky announce a monetisation plan for Content Creators, does this open up the door for a new pathways for the independent musician?

Youtube has undergone a huge upheaval in their short form content strategy and we're dissecting it this week's show. The changes that are coming in and what that means for the independent musician looking to market themselves on this platform.