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Creating Glitch Effects with Evolvor and AudioCubes
Glitch is not only a style of music but a vast array of techniques and methods to manipulate music. Originally these noises, scratches, cuts, skips, and distortion were caused by errors in hardware and software (whether intentional or not). When properly arranged and sequenced, glitches can have their own melodic and rhythmic qualities and are [...]
Improvisor as a Tool for Semi-Stochastic and Polyphonic Composition
As a composer, there are times when you are experiencing that creative “dryness”. It may either be difficulty completing an idea or even coming up with one at all. It is a good thing that Improvisor, music composition application created by Percussa for the AudioCubes, can actually stimulate your creativity. By playing around with it, [...]
Use Evolvor and an Arduino to Control a Hardware Modular Synthesizer
If you’re like me, you’re interested not only in computer music software but also hardware. There’s something about the tactile sense you get from a piece of hardware that we often find lacking when working with a piece of software. Aside from the physical capabilities of the Audiocubes themselves, Evolvor, sound design software for the [...]
Make a Dubstep Bassline with Evolvor and Ableton Live
The best dubstep basslines are musically simple, but contain complex LFO modulations. The built-in LFOs in most synths and effects are usually limited to simple waveforms (sines, squares and sawtooth waves), making the process of creating complicated modulations a painstaking one. With Evolvor, sound design application for AudioCubes, however, you can draw customized waveform shapes [...]
Video about EVOLVOR, a Sound Design Application created by Percussa
Jack Hertz made a great video with EVOLVOR, the latest sound design application which we’ve released for AudioCubes. EVOLVOR is a sound design application where you can program up to 4 user-definable MIDI LFOs. In the video below, Jack is modulating the pitch of three of the operators and the time delay of the chorus [...]
AudioCubes with Midibridge, Nuendo and LoopMash
This week we received a video from Marcelo, musician and sound engineer from Chile and one of our newest members of the AudioCubist community. He was so excited when receiving his set of 4 AudioCubes, he immediately downloaded the software, and made this amazing video with his camera. In this video Marcelo uses Steinberg’s Nuendo [...]
New Video about Interactive Light and Sound Installation of Kim Pedersen
Last week, we announced the upcoming interactive light and sound installation with 12 AudioCubes of Kim Pedersen. We could already see a preview of the installation. This week Kim Pedersen made a new video where he revealed some more information about his installation. Check out his new video: About Kim Pedersen: Kim Pedersen is a [...]
Polyrhythm experiments using AudioCubes
Someone wrote to me a few weeks ago in reaction to previous posts about our new MIDI generative software for AudioCubes, asking if it was possible to use the software to create polyrhythms. A simple example of a polyrhythm is a rhythm in which 3 beats are played against 2 beats, within the same amount [...]
Four-hand piano music using AudioCubes
In this short demo video, Percussa AudioCubes is used to automatically generate multiple piano melodies, using the new generative music software created for the AudioCubes by Percussa. Keep an eye on this blog for the official release of the software. Each cube uses a different groove and a limited number of notes to play its [...]
AudioCubes used in a live theater show for kids: Ti-To-Tis (Portugal)
We’re always impressed how people use the AudioCubes for different kinds of live performances. Last week, music composer Antonio Machado told us how he’s using the AudioCubes in a live theater show for kids: Ti-To-Tis. The theater show is a combination of light, sound and dance especially created to entertain kids, from 0 till 36months. [...]
