Music Technology discussions - from the inside. Contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other industry folks. Sonicstate.com editor Nick Batt hosts the panel for the latest news and trends in technology that affects the creation and distribution of music - and a few tasty stories from the studio too. Live every Wednesday at 4pm UK time (sonicstate.com/live).
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Sonic TALK - 075 Five Grammies! And a Hotz Box
First up, we congratulate Ms Amy Winehouse on her historic 5 Grammy awards romp - Dave Spiers' brother-in-law is bass player and MD for the band and has been round at his partying. Then we get stuck into the Hotz Box - a unique MIDI controller/instrument that was a hit amongst the bigwhigs in the 1980s - I'd never heard of this, but Chris Macleod, had the pleasure of staying with Jimmy Hotz and programming it for Jon Anderson for a Yes tour - he spills the beans. After that, we touch on the art of destruction - with tales of what we have broken - Chris enlightens us with the Keith Emerson L100 on casters story. Then we're on to Virtual Instruments magazine and other favourites, which leads on to a wider discussion of where all this stuff is going.