Sonic RETROCAST - Vintage Music Technology – Details, episodes & analysis

The first episode of a new podcast from us - welcome to the Sonic RETROCAST a companion show to SONIC TALK, focussed on vintage audio hardware, software, workflows and even videogames.

With regular contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other retro-enthusiasts, we talk pixels, bleeps and voltages.

To kick off the show, Paulee Bow ( @magicalsynthadventure3216 ) talks to Nick Batt about what is retro, and first synths

• 00:00 Retrocast Theme
• 00:38 An Introduction to Retrocast
• 01:29 Retro News
• 05:26 Main Segment - All Our First Synths
• 06:19 What IS Retro?
• 11:24 OUR First Synths
• 32:41 YOUR First Synths
• 51:12 What’s a Good First Synth?

Our 2nd episode featuring the legendary Anders Enger Jensen a musician from Norway. He’s been playing keyboards since 1986 and is deep into retro hardware and software.

Welcome to the Sonic RETROCAST a companion show to SONIC TALK, focussed on vintage audio hardware, software, workflows and even videogames.

With regular contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other retro-enthusiasts, we talk pixels, bleeps and voltages.

• 00:00:00 Start
• 00:00:37 Intro and news
• 00:04:00 Interview with Anders
• 00:04:57 A look at the studio
• 00:06:17 What is retro
• 00:11:53 Selecting sounds
• 00:15:25 Musical beginnings
• 00:29:12 Musical Genres
• 00:36:16 Roland synths
• 00:51:49 The CM-64
• 01:04:14 CM-64 sounds

Welcome Episode 3 of Sonic RETROCAST Episode 3 with host Paulee Alex Bow and guest vintage computing and podcast host Ravi Abbott.

Ravi is a prominent British retro computing enthusiast, journalist, event organizer, and podcaster based in Nottingham, England. He is most widely recognized for his extensive work celebrating vintage technology and video game preservation, with a particular specialization in the Commodore Amiga platform.
 

Thanks to our show sponsor: Liquid Sky
 https://liquidskyeurope.com/collections/liquid-sky-d-vices

News links:
C64CU: https://commodore.net/computer/
Virtual OS Museum: https://virtualosmuseum.org
Econet Lan Party: https://www.colinhoad.com
Atari Mini St: dennis.schauw

Guest Links:
Retro Hour Podcast: https://theretrohour.com
Dj Formula Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RaviAbbott
Kickstart Amiga Event: https://www.amigashow.com

Attributions for opening titles:
“Knight Riding a Horse” by kratosgd96 is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 
“Old Computer, Mouse and Keyboard Low Poly” by lucasalic00 is licensed under CC BY 4.0. 
“Roland TR-909” by sprtkle is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“ZX Spectrum 48K” by MaaB is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2” by AndreuMartiBas is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“TV , Old TV , Retro TV” by Denys Hroshko is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Prophet 5 Synthesizer” by Faheem Yusuf is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Carpet Iranian” by Mehdi Shahsavan is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Atmega328pu” by rave-games is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Pine Tree low poly” by Daniel.2U is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“English Rose Kitchen” by 20thcenturycloth.com is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Boom_5.wav” by shiru8bit is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
“Low Poly Snow Island” by Sahir Virmani is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/