Archive for November, 2008

We just released a new sound pack for AudioCubes, the fourth in the series. The pack contains a collection of custom built demo songs and midi bridge patches ready to load & play in the Fruity Loops environment. The pack contains 3 demo songs each offering a different musical and cube assignment angle and contains over 50 original patterns designed for the FL environment and has been produced exclusively for Percussa Audio Cubes by CueSounds. More information at http://shop.percussa.com/future-space-for-fl-studio-and-audiocubes.html

Chris Warren (UCSD, California, USA) writes us to show his demo of using AudioCubes to control a custom synth he is working on in Max/MSP 5.

The synth connects directly with the cubes without any setup or configuration, and has a mini sequencer built in. Control data is sampled at 1kHz and 10 bit resolution.

As you probably already know, there are no drivers necessary to use the cubes with your Mac or PC. The software can talk directly to the hardware and plays nice with the operating system.

The software will be available in the next months from the Percussa website.

More info about Chris’ work available from http://alloyelectric.com/

Keys Magazine Cover

AudioCubes article in Keys Magazine

Keys Magazine reviewed the AudioCubes and sent us a copy of the magazine (#12, December 2008). Grab it at your local newsstand if you live in Germany. If we get a PDF of the article we’ll put up a copy for download.

If you want to pick up a set of AudioCubes in Germany, visit our dealer list to find a dealer in your city: http://percussa.com/idealers.php. All of the dealers on this webpage have the AudioCubes.

Richard Devine designing sounds with AudioCubes

A while ago we went to Winter NAMM (in January 2008), to show the AudioCubes. We were lucky to hang out with our good friends Kyle and Ryan from Subtractive, they have a studio in Santa Monica and do a lot of great sound design and composition work, while at the same time producing film and working on their album (see the Test Short Starfish remix contest from a while ago, which was featured on Percussa’s main website).

Ryan and Kyle have been AudioCube users since the very beginning, I think they have serial number 10 on their cubes. They introduced us to Richard Devine, and naturally a discussion about his work and music technology emerged.

Click here to read the full article under our Artists section.

A trio of girl geeks and cubes

We were invited by Clo of the Brussels Girl Geeks to do a presentation on the why and history of AudioCubes and Percussa’s mission. The event took place in Hasselt, check the blog here for more information on the event.

Thanks to Clo Willaerts for her kindness and all the people who came over to see the cubes! The food was tasty and the people fantastic.

If you’d like to see the slides of the presentation, you can visit our page on Slideshare here.

AudioCubes article in Keyboards Recording

Keyboards Recording Magazine

Keyboards Recording magazine in France wrote a review on the AudioCubes. If you live in France, check your local news stand and grab a copy! We’ve requested a PDF of the article and hope to put it up on the blog as soon as possible.

FM207 AudioCubes Article

FM207 Cover

Future Music wrote a review on the AudioCubes this Month. Make sure to pick up a copy at your local news stand! We don’t have a PDF of the article, but will put it up for download if and when we get a copy.