About this episode

The episode reviews the latest developments in music technology and DAW testing over the past six months.

TechBytes 12 : 2026 Music Technology Round Up : Mid Year 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 all of us have been up to since last show, cover the domino effecting my business due to the current RAMpocolypse, 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 some new VI sessions that I have developed currently in BETA, and cover some hurdles exploring alternate Sample Players. We again cover some of the major new DAW/Sofware releases, and some cool Emerging Tech, cover the conclusion of the recent NI insolvency saga with the welcome aquisition by InMusic, and discuss how that could play out. We discuss the emerging CPU and Platform Wars covering Apple M5 Series vs x86 vs Arm , cover how and why both Intel and AMD are rereleasing older DDR4 based tech, and discuss the official release of the Nvidia N1X Mobile/Desktop chip, now branded as RTX Spark. We share some more stories from the Tech Support Trenches…

People in this episode

Host: Vin Curigliano

Guests: Pete Brown, Chris Mann

Topics covered

• music technology
• DAW testing
• MIDI 2.0
• sample players
• CPU wars
• software releases
• emerging tech

Keywords

• music technology
• DAWbench
• MIDI 2.0
• Nvidia RTX Spark
• InMusic acquisition
• CPU wars
• sample players
• tech support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AAVIM Technology, Microsoft, Link Audio, DAWbench, Nvidia, InMusic

Products: MIDI 2.0, Windows ASIO Driver, N1X Mobile/Desktop chip, RTX Spark

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