Appetite For Production
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Appetite For Production
Music production news, views and lolz from two industry insiders. Hot takes on the latest software and hardware, VST plugins and Kontakt libraries dissected, and all our #producerproblems laid bare.
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#95: Loss of Appetite
We're taking a break for a while, but here's a tiny episode to say goodbye for the moment. We're planning to be back, so please stay subscribed, and p...

#93: Destroy the Internet
Are music shops worth saving? Are subscription deals letting people down? Why are there no new synths to talk about? All these questions are half-answ...

#92: Grain Strain
Music over 120bpm is getting banned, a chip emulation leads to divergent takes, Bitwig 4 comes out with some lucky new features, and we take a look at...

#91: Please Don’t Explain
Loads of new instruments have arrived, and we're putting a few through their paces in this episode. Algonaut Atlas 2 is the drum skymapper that got th...

#90: Sensible and Sexy
Splice just started releasing plugins and there's three of them; We report back on Lunacy Audio's CUUUBE; Tracktion have come up with a comprehensive...

#89: Wherever You Want it to Bounce
A synth based on a cube, a synth based on thermodynamics, and an iLok based on the world's most annoying type of USB.
Elsewhere, Tim has...

#88: Awash with Knobs
We investigate an acid banger that won't stop rolling, the new version of FabFilter Timeless, and the little-known technology that could… transform th...

#87: Our Sweet Spot
It's a software haul as we check out two new synths, two new effects plugins, and Random Kontakt Instrument Corner makes a return. Elsewhere, we're ch...

#86: Technical Difficulties
My life is crumbling to pieces and so is my audio input. Some of this episode is OK, some of it is completely not OK. I can't apologize enough, please...

#85: Panny Panny Filter
We chat about the tremendously featureful new version of Audacity, zplane's two-dimensional plugin that might help someone somewhere somehow, new news...

#84: Yahoo Drum Bus Compressor
iZotope and Native Instruments get caught in bed together, Tim started exercising, and everyone's making web apps. We check out Google's AR Synth setu...

#83: Nostalgia-Inducing Processors
We get tired of Valentine's Day sales, check out Soundcloud's new system of royalty payments, and have a look at some vibey new instruments.

#82: This Actually Sounds Like a Good Idea
Ableton Live 11 is wife material; LANDR's new video conferencing service for musicians actually looks kind of like an OK idea; and we begin the quest...

#81: Why Don't You Get a Job?
Our blood is boiling thanks to subscriptions, MIDI biodata sensors and hippies as we look at Reason+, the MIDI Biodata Sonication Device, and a new Gr...

#80: Gibbering and Drooling
Musical burnouts, musical buyouts, and musical dropouts. We're back after a few weeks off, but has it been productive? Has it balls.
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#79: Rotating Gift Horse [Patron Only]
Episode 79 is a Patron-only episode for adoring clam supporters only! You can donate via Patreon at www.patreon.com/a4ppodcast or via PayPal at www.a4...
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#78: I Like My Musicians Starving [Patron Only]
Episode 78 is a Patron-only episode for adoring clam supporters only! You can donate via Patreon at www.patreon.com/a4ppodcast or via PayPal at www.a4...

#77: My Favourite Plugin in the Universe
Three new instruments – Matt Tytel's Vital, AAS Chromaphone 3 and Oblivion Sound Lab Hex Drum – are under discussion this episode, as well as the chil...

#76: A Buxom Update
DAW updates turned up to 11, new Macs on the horizon, and we get visual with a sound quiz.
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#75: Wild and Out Of Control
One free compressor, five free filters, and a wind sound generator are on-test this episode. Elsewhere, we're talking about 45 million clams, a felted...
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#74: Schrödinger's Distortion [Patron Only]
Episode 74 is a Patron-only episode for adoring clam supporters only! You can donate via Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/a4ppodcast or via PayPal at...

#73: Let My Plugins Go
A new platform for downloading free plugins, the first Minimoog emulation ever, and a sub-only synth with more under the surface. Elsewhere in this ep...

#72: Taco Tuesday
Kylie Minogue's learning Logic, Tim's learning music theory, and Behringer are learning how to squeeze guitar pedals into a Eurorack format. Elsewhere...

#71: Part of the Maschine
Two new synths from Newfangled Audio, James is nonplussed about the new Maschine, iZotope RX 8 scrubs up well, and which 90s hits will be remembered f...

#70: Race to the Bottom
Free plugins are streaming from every orifice this episode, but we've still got time to catch up with the biggest music software news around: Native I...

#69: Onion of Wrongdoing
Episode 69 Jubilee Special! Tim and James discuss the cancelling of NAMM 2021, Vangelis and E-mu's sonic sources, a reverb plugin with balls, and new...

#68: Audio Healing
Yet another AI unmixing program steps forward, Soundcloud offer paid auto-mastering on uploads, and meanwhile, Tim and James sit down to do a music cr...

#67: Not a Mongolian Hip-Hop Expert
4000 genres, one free DAW, and millions of clams paid in fines. All that and more are under discussion from your two favourite cynical talking heads.<...

#66: F*** It Moments
A cinematic scoring competition proves a little too low-resolution, Native Instruments' Stradivari Violin plugin proves the company isn't stuck in the...
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#65: A Few Banana Jams [Patron Only]
Episode 65 is a Patron-only episode for adoring clam supporters only! You can donate via Patreon at www.patreon.com/a4ppodcast or via PayPal at www.a4...

#64: Mid/Side Apartheid
Silicon-based computers threaten to slightly change the way we something; Stutter Edit is back… again; an electric piano/nylon guitar hybrid plugin; a...

#63: The Cracking of the Wax
Melodyne 5 arrives alive, the ultimate stereo plugins, a new FM synth that you build yourself in your DAW, Softube's entry into the world of big amp s...

#62: The Ultimate Evil
Facebook want your basslines, Roland Cloud invent the pay-once subscription plan, and we stuff our blowholes with Spitfire Audio's whalesong plugin. E...

#61: Sounds That Make You Cry
The best vintage synth plugins, the best free synth plugins, a new piece of hardware to control them all, new stuff from Behringer, and the 50 Cent bo...

#60: Vegetative States
Tim talks about "possibly the most innovative plugin I've ever seen", James is very excited to talk about peas, there's a plugin effect featuring a wo...

#59: The One with the Soundboard
Our intrepid zeroes discuss DOS games, a free sequenced filter plugin, online learning, PSP's InfiniStrip, and the iPhone SE. And did someone say "cli...

#58: Alphanumeric Bollocks
We're talking trackers, Ableton themes, and some shifty moves by Spotify and Soundcloud. Plugin round-ups in this episode include COVID freebies, free...

#57: Genuine Emotional Response
Another new DAW cometh while we're deep underwater, we read James's spam emails, catch up with some modern synths, sniff some musical intervals, and g...
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#56: Not on the Spectrum [Patron Only]
Episode 56 is a Patron-only episode for elite clam donors only! You can donate via Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/a4ppodcast or via PayPal at http...

#55: The Musical Illuminati
Are all melodies now free to use? Acid Pro now comes with Serum. Behringer gets personal with the Cork Sniffer concept synth. Not another MIDI wearabl...