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Composition using AudioCubes, Improvisor and Apple GarageBand
GarageBand is a great and simple software application from Apple to compose and record music. It comes free with every Mac, and includes software instruments as well as loops (recorded audio). The software instruments can be played using any MIDI instrument, for example a keyboard. Of course, this assumes you know how to play keyboard, [...]
AudioCubes Controlled Synth Mod Matrix in Max/MSP
I’ve been thinking about building a synth application for AudioCubes. Do you remember Improvisor, the app we recently released for composition using AudioCubes? In Improvisor, you could put cubes next to each other to add patterns with relative pitch to each other, generating totally new melodies from patterns you programmed into Improvisor. Each cube plays [...]
Featured Question: Does AudioCubes work with Logic?
Logic is a professional software suite for music production which is quite popular, and is used in quite a few recording studios. Originally, it was a product from Emagic from Germany, which was later on acquired by Apple. We sometimes get questions from professional recording and producing musicians who are interested in using AudioCubes, for composition [...]
Featured Question: Are AudioCubes only for DJing or Live Performance?
We sometimes get questions from musicians, DJs, producers, … who wonder if the AudioCubes are something created specifically for DJs. As a reminder, the AudioCubes are a hands-on professional hardware and software tool for people who create and/or perform art, whether it is sound, music or visuals, using hardware, software and computers. The hardware consists [...]
9BOX: Jamming AudioCubes with Several Players at the same Time
You’re planning to organize a social musical jam, or you want to use the AudioCubes for music education or music therapy, and you’re looking for an interesting way to use the AudioCubes with several people at the same time? How about 9BOX of Mark Mosher? In previous blog posts, we already briefly discussed 9BOX, but [...]
Helper code from Improvisor for Max/MSP developers
If you’ve been following the Percussa blog lately you must surely have heard about IMPROVISOR, an exciting new application we released for the AudioCubes, which let you compose music generatively. Because you can program your own patterns into IMPROVISOR independently as timing patterns and relative pitch patterns, there is room for experimentation and exploration of [...]
Improvisor for AudioCubes – Manual now available
The getting started manual for Improvisor is now available. To view the manual click here: http://www.percussa.com/manuals/improvisor Please help us improve IMPROVISOR and fix bugs by posting them as comments on the manuals page. IMPROVISOR is a simple and powerful lightweight sequencer, which lets you compose music in a “generative” way using the AudioCubes. It allows [...]
AudioCubes and Crystal, very interesting combination
A couple of months ago Mark Mosher did some cool things using the AudioCubes and the (free) Crystal VST-plugin. Crystal VST is getting attention again since it launched an ipad/iphone version that can load patches from the desktop version. The desktop version, however, has a very interesting feature: it has a MIDI modulate matrix which [...]
A closer look at IMPROVISOR software for AudioCubes
In case you didn’t see our previous post about IMPROVISOR, check it out here: http://www.percussa.com/2011/06/26/generative-music-software-audiocubes-improvisor/ In this blog post we take a closer look at some of the features of IMPROVISOR, as we’re working on the software and getting it ready for a beta release. IMPROVISOR is a new software application we’re working on for [...]
Instant Mapping for AudioCubes and Live Available
We’ve received a lot of questions about the instant mapping script of Nathan Groth, and, of course questions about when it will become available. Well, we’ve got some good news for all of you: Nathan sent us the script as well as a manual. Thank you Nathan Click here to download the script and [...]
