Camille Troillard has created a free library that lets you use the Percussa AudioCubes with your own programs. The library is written in C and is available for Mac OS X and Windows. The goal is to make a library that is robust, easy to learn, and that covers most the functionalities the cubes are offering. The libcube library… Read More Free Software Library For The Percussa AudioCubes
This video, via Dan from Schaack Audio, demos a single Percussa AudioCube controlling Slicex in FL Studio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bowexkE4VSU This video demos using a Percussa Audiocube to create loops. The Audiocube’s 4 sensors control 4 parameters of a VST instrument, which are recorded into a looping sequencer and played over the original recording, allowing the performer to create a loop quickly and shape the sound and musical patterns using has hands and fingers,… Read More Making Audio Loops With A Single AudioCube
AudioCubes in Dr. Faustus video shoot: We set up at the loft and shot this video. The final version will be posted as soon as it is edited. These are shots from just the two stationary cameras. The handycam footage has yet to be converted to an editable format. I’m working on it. The soundtrack… Read More Percussa AudioCubes at DIV (Divine Intervention) Video Sh
Cassiel’s straker on monome and audiocubes: The monome is being driven by the straker sequencing network, which is built using shado. The sound manipulation comes courtesy of shard, an algorithmic sample slicing plugin that we’ve used on stage a few times, most recently for a Future of Sound gig at (re)Actor3 in Liverpool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFo1l8SJeik In this demo video, Chris Warren is controlling a soft synth developed especially for AudioCubes by Percussa, to be released in the next few months. No setup or configuration necessary to make the cubes talk to the software, since the software was designed specifically for the cubes. No drivers necessary, and runs on Mac OSX… Read More Sound Design With Percussa AudioCubes
Image: percussa Percussa’s Bert Schiettecatte has published a nice interview with Atlanta electronica artist Richard Devine.
Percussa’s Bert Schiettecatte gave a presentation to the Brussels Girl Geeks earlier this week on the why and history of AudioCubes and Percussa’s mission. Here are the slides from Schiettecatte’s presentation.
Kipp Wieland demonstrates how they do it in Cedar Rapids, IA, demoing a custom digital DJ setup. The system is capable of playing up to eight stereo elements at one time, be they whole songs, clips, or loops: “I loop everything that goes into it – even 9-minute tracks! I put this together when Mike (running… Read More DJing With Percussa Audiocubes
In this video, Okudaira-san from MI7 Japan, is using a brainwave analyzer from IBVA to get signals from his brain into the computer, which control the red, green and blue color channels of a Percussa AudioCube. Percussa’s Bert Schiettecatte is looking for cool AudioCubes demos, so if you’re using them in a unique way, let… Read More Brainwave Synthesis With Percussa AudioCubes
