But what if the honoree is donald trump ?

I’ll bite, You are totally entitled to your opinion, but did you need to express it here now? It’s like showing up at a birthday party and announcing that the honoree is boring and ugly. WTF? That jerk gets thrown out and never invited back.

I think that’s exactly why (some) people like it. Myself included.
It’s not click bait, in your face and overly stylised like most things.
It’s understated and honest.
It’s a breath of fresh air in today’s world of “synthflueners” (I detest that word) and click baity videos that are solely about generating views.
Sonic State for me is all about watching other people who are really passionate about electronic music (or just music) doing their thing and enjoying it.
Personally for me their enthusiasm and passion sometimes inspires me.
I might be tired after a hard day at work, or have things going on in my life, then I watch a Sonic Talk and I feel inspired to have have a jam, noodle on the keyboard, play the ukulele, bang a drum etc that I wouldn’t have done otherwise.
That alone is worthy of praise.
I do agree that tutorials, or how tos, would be nice. However, there are plenty of other people doing stuff like that on YouTube.
Music Radar has lots of stuff like that if you’re interested.
Now that Computer Music is no more, Music Rader has a lot of their archived material online. Some of it is definitely worth checking out.
However, it is very much in that print magazine format that you don’t seen to be keen on. Though there are videos too.
Check it out, or don’t.
Either way, have fun making whatever sounds you want to make, in whatever way you choose to make them.

^^^ This.
Couldn’t agree more.
The whole Sonicstate team are awesome.
I always come away feeling like I’ve learned something after watching Sonic talk.
They especially kept me inspired and sane during COVID lockdown.
Brilliant bunch.

Happy 30th birthday guys! Rock & Roll!!!!

“And those print magazine websites? Not so much”
I’m still sad that Future plc shut down Computer Music and Future Music magazines (the latter after 30 years?!) last year. At least Sound on Sound is still around.

I had no idea that our own Synthhead once wrote for SonicState.