Archive for October, 2008

Our friend Kipp from the US sent in a video about his Controllerism setup:

Kipp has been building a DJ setup for a while consisting of quite a few interesting pieces of kit, such as the Korg Kaoss Pad, Ableton Live, and AudioCubes. If you’d like to learn more about Kipp’s work and setup you can visit http://myspace.com/runninthingsrecords

Thanks Kipp!

We’re working on a software development kit to communicate with AudioCubes from within your own software, without necessarily using Max/MSP. The SDK will be available as a static library + header file, written in the C programming language, and would come with an example for the very nice JUCE audio application framework (written in C++) from Raw Material Software. If you’d like to be involved as a developer with testing the library/examples once it’s available, please send an email message to jobs (at) percussa (dot) com. If you’d like to post some ideas of how you think the library should work or if you have questions, join us in the forum at http://forum.percussa.com/

We are currently experiencing some issues with the forum: registering doesn’t seem to work. Perhaps this has something to do with the upgrade we did from phpbb2 to phpbb3. Thanks to Nick from the UK and Nigel from Australia for reporting this. We are doing our best to get it fixed ASAP.

Emissions is a real-time soundscape generating instrument by Ableton Live content developer Puremagnetik (www.puremagnetik.com). It utilizes an array of textural ambiances, specifically designed for use with Percussa’s AudioCubes. It will morph, react and evolve depending on what the user (and the cubes!) decide to do.

AudioCubes are a tangible interface for creating music and sound. They interface seamlessly with your existing audio software giving you hands-on control in creating elements for music production, sound design and live performance.

System Requirements:

• Ableton Live 7
• one or more Percussa AudioCubes
• latest update of MIDIBridge software for AudioCubes
• 100 MB of free hard disk space and 500 MB of physical RAM

Get the latest AudioCubes software from:

• http://www.percussa.com/isupport.php
• http://forum.percussa.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=40

Okudaira-san from MI7 Japan, who performed with the cubes at Propellerheads Producers Conference in Japan a while ago, sent us this amazing video:

In this video he is using a brainwave analyzer from IBVA (http://www.ibva.com/) to get signals from his brain into the computer, which control the red, green and blue colour channels of an AudioCube. This is certainly one of the most innovative ideas I came across in using AudioCubes, and it shows that the applications of the cubes go well beyond the simple demos we’ve been showing on our website. Our users continue to amaze us!

If you have a cool setup you created with AudioCubes, feel free to email us at cubes (at) percussa (dot) com and we’ll get it covered on this blog.

Older videos by Okudaira-san:

Sweden is not only the country that sells fish in a tube, they also have a great magazine called Studio. We met Mats, who works at the magazine, a while ago, while visiting our friends from JAM, a fantastic shop of music technology in Sweden, which is also one of the dealers that have AudioCubes.

Studio did a review recently on the AudioCubes, you can get the full article from their website:

http://shop.idg.se/pdf/articleInfo.asp?mcat=22&cat=80&item=22122

Guillaume Evrard sent me an email about his sampler application which he has been developing, check it out!
Guillaume also works with Puce Muse in France, an organisation to stimulate creating electronic music together.

More info:

http://www.guillaume-evrard.com/
http://www.pucemuse.com/