Julian Storer and James 'Woody' Woodburn from Tracktion join me for a chat about the lease of life Tracktion is getting and plans for the future.

We first explore the new ROLI Seaboard - a multi-axis controller, Steve Reich's recent concert exploring themes from Radiohead, the Giant Tuba of Marknuekirchen, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinasuars live rig, Hollow Sun SOTU, with plenty of conversational diversions on the way.

A new guest joins us from the rarified world of pop production, now working in commercial writing and founder of prog rockers Frost - top chap and good value! Jem tells us about his work with X-Factor artists and other high pop acts. We talk about Avid and the hypothetical DAW change, Waldorf Rocket, NI's new softy and Bowie's new album amongst other things. Finally Mark treats us to some Gerbil Rock

SONIC TALK 302 - Nun On A Mobility Scooter

Andy Shillito is just back from the US touring with the Darkness, Failedmuso.com's Rob Puricelli steps in to complete the panel - we discuss Krafwerks sellout Tate Modern shows, then the Grammys production and what goes into a production of that scale with great input from Any Shillito, then we talk product demos - with Moog's recent posting of the superstar monosynth players from NAMM, we also see an awesome demo from DSI's team with the Tempest and Prophet 12 front and centre.

300 episodes - makes roughly 12 and a half days of listening should you choose to tackle it. First show in June 2006 and here we are. Joining me in the studio to mark this milestone are Dave and Chris plus a couple of bottles of bubbly - thanks guys! On the line are Rich and Mark. First talk about a few more NAMM items, the Raven MIT (10:34) then a the Tactus terraforming LCD screen blows our minds (24:04), the 30 years of MIDI panel sparks some reminiscing, we talk about the new release from Depeche Mode (Delta Machine) (58:20), and finally the excellent Cinco MIDI organizer (01:11:55).

Fresh back from rainy California - or perhaps not so fresh! We talk of the NAMM show releases - the Korg MS20 Mini, Moog Sub Phatty, Buchla Easel, iConnect MIDI+ and audio passthrough andmuch more.

Not much on the agenda this week apart from a bit of good old NAMM speculation and chit chat. We talk about the Moog Sub Phatty (07:57), Ableton Push will be on display for the time (18:00)Mark brings out his Yamaha EZ-EG MIDI guitar (27:59) and Gaz promises to eat his Monotron (maybe) when we talk of something new from Korg (32:03). Avid are also apparently cooking something up too (39:00),which leads to a discussion of working remotely and also off the grid - with a great working method from Gaz to jam freestyle using Cubase (49:47) . Dave has a hunch that Spectrasonics are up to something too

In our first episode of the New Year, we’re happy to welcome Noneric - host of Musotalk.de who’s not been with us for a while due to his massively successful Musotalk site, we talk of Mark Tinley’s Coles Ribbon sports commentator mic, then the new Waves Element software synth (09:38), Cakewalk Sonar X2 for Windows 8 touch (21:48) and other touch matters, Wampler Triple Wreck and distortion/drive for synthesizers (43:55) and finally some fun with a trombone (53:45)

Our first topic is the light and fluffy one of the Mayan impending end of the world 10:29, then Gaz gives us his impressions of Live 9 Beta 18:05, Cubasis for iPad and a bit of predicting for next year (53:19) followed by a bit of Zedd (59:59). Finally Gaz plays us out with his latest live recording of a track he wrote inspired by his disappointment with Apple Computer.