TechBytes 11 : 2025 Music Technology Round Up : The Year in Review ! Hosted by Vin Curigliano of AAVIM Technology , I am joined by guest co-hosts Pete Brown of Microsoft and Chris Mann of Link Audio.

We catch up again on what Pete and Chris have been up to since last show, get an overview of the guys adventures at NAMM, and check in on Petes work on MIDI 2.0 and the inbox Windows ASIO Driver, etc

We do a general catch up and summary of the last 6 Months in DAWbench testing and development work. We discuss the details of the official DAWbench Suite 2026 release after 3 years of development, and cover some of the most recent testing and resulting fallout and ongoing discussion.

We again cover some of the major new DAW/Sofware releases, and some cool Emerging Tech, cover some of the more recent aquisitions, and also cover the fallout from the NI preliminary insolvency actions currently playing out. We discuss the emerging CPU and Platform Wars covering Apple M4/5 Series vs x86 vs Arm , cover the Intel Ultra 200 Series CPU and AMD's X3D CPU refresh's, discuss the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 CPU release, and cover the incoming Nvidia N1X Mobile/Desktop chip. We share some more stories from the Tech Support Trenches, and much more.

Host & Guest Links : AAVIM Technology : www.aavimt.com.au

DAWbench : www.dawbench.com Microsoft : www.microsoft.com Pete Brown : https://twitter.com/Pete_Brown Link Audio : www.linkaudio.com.au VO : Andrew Peters : www.andrewpetersvo.com

Music Themes : Original DAWbench VI Theme Music composed by Rob John : Independent Music Productions : http://www.indmusicprods.com

DAWbench Radio Show ReMix by Erin McKimm : www.erinmckimm.com

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