Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Website Goes Live - New Audio Demos

This is a follow-up to this post. The Tangible Instruments Arpeggio website is now live at http://www.tangibleinstruments.com

Note: moving forward the label for these will be Tangible Instruments rather than Arpeggio.
See the Tangible Instruments channel below for all posts.

Happy Holidays from Tangible Instruments

Happy Holidays from Tangible Instruments from Tangible Instruments on Vimeo.

"Happy Holidays from everyone at Tangible Instruments!

www.tangibleinstruments.com"

New Arpeggio Hardware Arpeggiator, Sequencer, and Synthesizer Details & Vids

First revealed back in June of 2013, we now have some additional details on the upcoming Arpeggio. Further below are three making-of videos featuring audio from the Arpeggio's built-in AVR synth engine.

Details:

"Introducing arpeggio. A new kind of electronic instrument with an interface so simple you can let your intuition take over. A design focused on seamless composition and performance which gives you the precise control to make any melody you want. Every detail of your sequence at your fingertips. No screens or menus. Arpeggio takes the notes you select and instantly plays them in a looping sequence. Tweak and save note sequences. These form the building blocks of melodic improvisation. String them together to create complex melodies. It’s a blank sketchpad for musical notes. There are no presets. You are the composer.

• Create, play, and save sequences instantly with live arpeggio sequencer.
• Up, up-down, down, down-up, sequence, & random arpeggiator modes.
• Access and chain together up to 512 user created arpeggio patterns.
• Internal 2-oscillator virtual analog monosynth.
• Note division sequencer (1/16th, 1/8th, 1/4 notes etc ).
• USB, 1/4” & 1/8” audio out, MIDI in, MIDI out, CV trigger out.
• MIDI & CV clock sync for syncing to external drum machines (master or slave)
• Control external hardware and software synths.
• High quality internal speaker.
• Takes batteries or power from an AC adapter. Make melodies anywhere!"


Arpeggio Machining Teaser 1 from Tangible Instruments on Vimeo.

"Here is a Video teaser of machining for our prototype, accompanied by Arpeggio's AVR Synth Engine demo."


Arpeggio Machining Teaser 2 from Tangible Instruments on Vimeo.

"Here is the 2nd Video teaser of machining for our prototype, accompanied by Arpeggio's AVR Synth Engine demo. We're cutting a block of aluminum for our button moulds."


Arpeggio 3D Printing from Tangible Instruments on Vimeo.

"Here we're 3D printing our prototype for Arpeggio. An arpeggiator, sequencer, and synthesizer in one portable instrument. 3D printing has really helped us to perfect the look and feel of the case."

Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Coming to NAMM

via Tangible Instruments

"We are very proud to announce that Tangible Instruments will be at NAMM 2016 this year. Booth 4801 Hall C. Jan 21st - 24th.

We hope to see you there!"

Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Unboxing Review

video upload by Super Kleen

https://www.tangibleinstruments.com/

"In this video, I unbox the Tangible Instruments Arpeggio, a unique hands-on arpeggiator designed for musicians, producers, and live performers. We take a close look at what’s inside the box, the build quality, layout, and first impressions of how this device feels right out of the package.

The Arpeggio is all about tactile control and creative sequencing, and this video focuses on the physical design and initial setup before diving deeper in future videos.

📦 What’s covered in this video:
Unboxing the Tangible Instruments Arpeggio
Build quality & hardware overview
Buttons, knobs, and interface layout
Initial thoughts & expectations
🎶 Who this is for:
Hardware synth & MIDI users
Live performers & electronic musicians
Producers looking for hands-on sequencing tools"

New Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Demos

Published on Oct 21, 2019 Tangible Instruments

"In this video we are cycling through some bass synth patches and sending MIDI clock to the Volca Sample. Audio was recorded directly into Logic Pro with a Focusrite Scarlett interface and no effects (EQ, compression, etc) have been added."

Arpeggio is expected to ship next year.

Arpeggio gate automation, portamento, swing & more

Published on Oct 21, 2019 Tangible Instruments

"In this video you can see and hear features including per-note gate automation, portamento, swing, shape(filter cutoff), & adding octaves to the sequence. Gate data is saved with sequence data on the SD Card. Audio was recorded directly into Logic Pro with a Focusrite Scarlett interface and no effects (EQ, compression, etc) have been added.

http://tangibleinstruments.com"

MEFF Modular Synthesizer Exhibition Fair Set for April 6th & 7th 2019

Tiptop Audio, Lattexplus & Synth Café present MEFF Modular Synthesizer Exhibition Fair

April 6th & 7th 2019 Impact Hub Florence, Italy

Featuring:

ARTURIA - BASTL INSTRUMENTS - BEHRINGER - CLANK - DIY SYNTH ITALIA - ERICA SYNTHS - ERROR INSTRUMENTS - EXAGONAL - FRAP TOOLS - GARRET LABS - GINKO SYNTHESE - GRP SYNTHESIZER - JOLIN LAB - L-1 - LIVESTOCK ELECTRONICS - MARTIN PAS - MIDIWARE - MILK AUDIO STORE - MODAL ELECTRONICS - MODULAR AUDIO DEVICES - MOOG - NOVATION - PURRTRONICS - QOSMO MODULAR - ROLAND - RTFM - SOMA - TANGIBLE WAVES - TEENAGE ENGINEERING - TIPTOP AUDIO -  WALDORF - YAMAHA

Modular synthesizer fair, workshops and performances with the best manufacturers and artists in the industry.

The press release:

March 2019, Italy - Tiptop Audio, the Californian modular synthesizer brand, in partnership with Lattexplus leading event organisation in Florence since 2010 and Synth Café the Italian synth web community are proud to announce the third edition of MEFF at the Impact Hub Florence and BUH! Circolo culturale urbano on the 6th and 7th of April 2019. The fair will involve more than 30 International synthesizer brands and distributors with workshops and performances in an event free to the public.

MEFF returns to Impact Hub coworking in Florence and BUH! Circolo culturale urbano to set up its event, which will include an Exhibitor area where attendees can explore, learn, interact, demo and purchase instruments. The Performance area, called the Auditorium, part of BUH! Circolo culturale urbano is a room acoustically designed by the sound designer and engineer Donato Masci. In the evenings, the location will host workshop and performances including a soldering workshop by Brno brand BASTL Instruments.

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What chord sounds green?

video upload by Tangible Instruments

https://tangibleinstruments.com/

"What chord sounds green? Arpeggiate chords instantly with Arpeggio from Tangible Instruments. #synth"

Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Site Update and Availability

Tangible Instruments wrote in to let us know they have a new revamped website, and that Arpeggio is currently in stock at Perfect Circuit.

Click through for details.

"Arpeggio lets you easily compose, save, and perform melodies. It's an arpeggiator, sequencer, and synthesizer in one portable instrument. Designed to give you the freedom to make melodies with nuance and distinction. Save hundreds of melodies and create millions of arpeggiator styles. Control your gear wirelessly with MIDI over bluetooth or go old school with control voltage and gate.

Key Features:

• Arpeggiator, sequencer, & synthesizer

all in one portable instrument

• Create, adjust, transpose, switch, &

save melodies seamlessly during play

• SD-Card can store up to 512 melodies

• Melodies can be up to 128 notes long

• Adjust note lengths and add rests

• Mix and modify note orders to create

millions of custom arpeggiator styles

• 2-oscillator virtual analog mono synth

• High quality internal speaker

• USB or battery powered"

Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Feature Overviews - Set to Ship This Summer

Arpeggio is set to ship this summer. You can find additional details and picks at the Tangible Instruments website.

"Eight short videos demonstrating many of Arpeggio's main features."

Playlist:
Arpeggio Features 1: Keyboard and Arpeggiator
Arpeggio Features 2: Sequence Parameters
Arpeggio Features 3: Sequence Banks
Arpeggio Features 4: Synthesizer Parameters
Arpeggio Features 5: Transpose
Arpeggio Features 6: Octave + Repeats
Arpeggio Features 7: Time Multiplier
Arpeggio Features 8: Sequence Shortening

Tangible Instruments Arpeggio Now Shipping

You might remember Tangible Instruments Arpeggio from back in 2020. After a few delays, Arpeggio is now shipping! Details follow:

"Arpeggio is a portable, wireless, battery powered arpeggiator, sequencer, and synth with a built-in speaker that lets you easily compose, save, and perform melodies. It creates a looping sequence of the notes you select in real time. It’s a new musical instrument designed to give you the freedom to make melodies with nuance and distinction. Save hundreds of melodies and create millions of arpeggiator styles and rhythms. Control your gear wirelessly with MIDI over bluetooth or go old school with control voltage and gate. Arpeggio retails for $379 USD. We are now taking orders on our website (https://tangibleinstruments.com/). Limited quantities shipping January 2025"

Below you'll find images of the arpeggiator, sequencer, and synthesizer overlays from the user guide. These are included with Arpeggio.

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ROTOR - Tangible Modular Music Synth From the Creators of Reactable Now Available

iTunes:
ROTOR - Tangible Modular Music Synth - Reactable Systems SL

Preview video posted here.

"(50% OFF Launch price - Regular price: $19.99)

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AE Modular-Tangible Waves & Microgranny 2.0-Bastl Instruments

Published on Mar 8, 2018 Dziam Bass

"AE Modular-Tangible Waves & Microgranny 2.0-Bastl Instruments
AE Modular is a modular system from Tangible Waves in combination with Microgranna 2.0 - a granular sampler from Bastl Instruments. At the beginning of some sounds, noise with a little crunchy but about a minute added bass with Ae Modular used analogue sequencer 16SEQ with AE Modular."

5 Second Interviews at Knobcon 2023

video upload by Gerbil Hamster Records

"Shits too long sometimes
Love ya!

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Buchla
https://buchla.com/

Hive Mind Synthesis
https://www.thekillerbeerelayteam.com...

After Later Audio
https://afterlateraudio.com/

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Arpeggio Improvisational Jam with the Sequencer Overlay

video upload by Tangible Instruments

"The Sequencer Overlay lets you dive deeper into your saved sequences and change the pitch or octave of any note, add slide notes where you want, adjust swing, and note probability. In the beginning of the video I'm adjusting the 'Sequence Frequency Pattern' which is like a step sequencer for the entire sequence. Sometimes you don’t want a melody to play constantly in order to leave space for the other instruments in your composition. A Sequence Frequency Pattern of up to 16 steps is saved with each sequence. Each step can either play the sequence or wait silently for the length of the sequence. Later, I'm using live note input to change notes in the sequence as it's playing. @KorgOfficial @jhspedals"

Happy New Year From MATRIXSYNTH! - A Look Back at 2015

Happy New Year everyone!  I want to thank you all for a great 2015 and I wish you all the best in 2016!

The following is my yearly round up for the year.  Feel free to dig into this post as much you like, or skip it and leave a comment at the bottom of the post. I'd be curious to hear what stood out for you in 2015. Do you like the direction the synthesizer world is headed in, or would you rather see more or less of any type of product?

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Genki KATLA - THE VOLCANO SYNTH!! Now Available

video upload by Starsky Carr

"What happens when a synthesizer completely breaks the rules?
In this video, we explore the Genki KATLA — a truly unique polysynth inspired by Icelandic volcanoes, featuring a rotating voice architecture, hybrid signal path, and some of the most unpredictable sound design possibilities I’ve come across.

This isn’t your typical analog polysynth. Each of the five voices can run independently with different waveforms, octaves, and modulation — creating evolving textures, harmonic movement, and generative-style sounds that feel closer to modular synthesis than traditional keyboards.

🎛️ What makes the KATLA special?
• Rotating voice polyphony (round robin-style synthesis)
• Independent per-voice oscillators & tuning
• Digital oscillators + analog filter signal path
• Looping envelopes reaching audio-rate modulation
• Phase distortion, wavefolding & multiple distortion types
• Tape-style wow, flutter & pitch instability effects
• Stereo voice movement & evolving spatial modulation
• External inputs for processing other gear

From lush ambient pads to aggressive, evolving sequences — this synth can go places most instruments simply can’t. It’s not about recreating vintage sounds… it’s about discovering entirely new ones.

💸 At around €5000, this is definitely not a beginner synth — but for sound designers, and anyone looking for something truly different, it well worth a look."

Genki Katla Sound Design: Making sounds from scratch and exploring
video upload by MR TUNA Music

Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:16 - Init patch 0:44 - Filter sounds 1:26 - Raising 1 voice 1:43 - Creating a basic pluck sound 2:24 - Aftertouch controls 2:45 - Bring in a little reverb 2:56 - LFO to filter cutoff 3:16 - LFO to reverb mix 3:46 - Keyboard cutoff 4:00 - Osc 3 Square wave 4:23 - Sub oscillator 4:54 - KATLA parameters 5:01 - Rústir wavefolder 6:08 - Rökkur stereospreader 6:37 - Skriða envelope randomizer 7:27 - Aska random modulations 7:57 - Glóð tape stops and flutters 8:35 - Skjálfti ??? 9:14 - Kvika slow tape modulations 9:38 - dark pads 10:20 - Móða voice detuning 11:20 - Katla sounds with aftertouch 13:28 - Thanks for watching

"Hey guys! Very very excited to be presenting the Genki Katla to you all... I am truly in awe of the sound of this very unique and powerful instrument.

I thought the best way to get to know the synth is to start from scratch so in this video we'll go full hands-on with the Genki Katla, exploring (almost) every parameter and building sounds from an initialized patch.

From some raw drone layers and gritty textures to evolving pads, rhythmic sequences, and atmospheric beds, we will see just what this instrument can do, discover new sounds, and maybe make some friends along the way 🙏

If you're into sound design, unique synths, or just love discovering new instruments, this one is for you!

HUGE thanks to Genki for letting me a part of this with them and showing off this super cool synth.

No money was paid, no agreements were made... these are my real thoughts on this very premium synthesizer and I will be sharing lots more."

Press release follows:


Genki Instruments announces availability of Katla as Voice Rotating Polyphonic Synthesizer inspired by its natural namesake

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND: having twice blown European musical minds thanks to show-stealing showcases at SUPERBOOTH25, May 8-10, Berlin, Germany and Machina Bristronica 2025, September 27-28, Bristol, UK, before adventuring across the pond for a repeat performance at Buchla & Friends 2026, January 24-25, LA, CA, USA, Reykjavik-based instrument developer Genki Instruments is proud to announce availability of the eagerly-awaited Katla as a Voice Rotating Polyphonic Synthesizer inspired by Iceland’s largest subglacial volcano as its natural namesake — readily representing the company’s first foray into analogue synthesis, albeit one that uniquely utilises a set of wildcard parameters to infuse it with organic, unpredictable behaviour as an instrument that is worthy of that legacy, excelling at generating rich, evolving, multi-layered textures, where each note stirs, swells, and erupts in its own distinct way — as of March 31…

Clearly Katla’s inspiration runs through its ‘volcanic’ veins. After all, it is framed by side panels and knobs forged from authentic Icelandic lava, giving each instrument a tangible connection to the volcanic forces that inspired it. That this synth should surely roar is a given. Genki Instruments inevitably chose, therefore, to kit Katla out with four independent distortion destinations, the most unruly of which is a stereo CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Drive effect — a characterful saturation stage, pushing tones from warm and rounded to fractured and snarling.

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Free L.A. Synth Expo Returns to Echo Park with Increased Modular presence

RSVP Here "After the 2018 launch, which brought over 1,000 musicians to a warehouse in Echo Park, the free Los Angeles Synth & Pedal Expo will return on September 28-29, 2019 in the same space on West Temple Street, in collaboration with local stores Analogue Haven, Noisebug and Truetone Music.

The involvement of Modular specialists Analog Haven and Noisebug (selling most products at a discount for the occasion) boosted the presence of Eurorack builders: this year there will be an entire room dedicated to the format.

A larger space will host the large format synth companies (see floorplan), where many established builders will have the opportunity to showcase their latest products.

There's a lot of curiosity, in particular, for the new ASM Hydrasynth and the EarthQuaker Devices Eurorack version of their Afterneath Reverb. Their presence at the show will represent some sort of West Coast debut. Tangible Instrument will also showcase the soon to be in production prototype of the company's new synth.

As usual, the show will feature a rich presence of pedal manufacturers. The stompbox format in recent years has developed in creative ways that have attracted the attention of the more creative synth players, with devices by companies like EarthQuaker Devices, Red Panda, Meris and Chase Bliss Audio (among others), whose effects will be represented at the LA show.

Like all the other Synth & Pedal Expos, there's no charge at the door. Here's the list of confirmed manufacturers

SYNTH BUILDERS

1010 Music
Analog Cases
Arturia
ASM
Elektron
Eventide
IK Multimedia
LA Circuits
MOOG
Mystic Circuits
Novation
Roland
Rosen Audio
Ruach Music
Sensel
Steady State Fate
Strange Electronic
Tangible Instruments
WMD
Yamaha

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2016 Pics

Update: Booth list added below.  30 booths in one day!  It's become tradition for me to come on Saturday only.  The site is just too busy leading up to then.  Be sure to see the last image in the set  It's the NAMM Booth promo for the first showing of the original Minimoog Model D.  The Bob Moog Foundation was giving out buttons of the flyer which you can see in the second to last image.  You never know what will be your last pic at NAMM.  I am glad it was this one.  It's more than fitting considering the Minimoog was the birth of modern day synthesizers.  Apologies for not calling this out earlier.  It was one of those should I not say anything and let people pause at that image and discover what it meant on their own, or should I call it out.  I guess I did both.  :)

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So first of all, apologies for the super tall pic to start! For some reason Flickr's slideshow is not resizing it, and a few others, to fit the desired frame size. Mouse over the image and use the controls that come up to move through the slide show. Once you get past the first image, the majority of the rest should fit fine. For what it's worth, the super tall pic to start does give you a feel of what it's like to walk up to the entrance of NAMM. If you prefer you can check out the set on Flickr here. Feel free to grab any pics for your wallpaper but if you'd like to use them professionally (not that any are that good :), please contact me by clicking on the small email icon on the bottom right of the site. This year I took a total of 328 pics.

All that said, enjoy the set! The pics speak for themselves. If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them in the comments.

NAMM was great this year. Lots of familiar faces and lots of new. Modular has grown exponentially. It was on the main floor this year rather than what we like to call the dungeon. As for new synths, the DSI Oberheim OB-6 stole the show. The minilogue looked and sounded great and the KORG Volca FM was a very nice surprise. Roland's booth was great; nice dim lighting to let the blinky synth lights shine, as well as giving you a more intimate experience with their synths. There was also a cool wall sized timeline of Roland synths. Malekko's Roland System 500 synths were in show and I actually was able to help with one that had its envelope switched to loop mode. Moog's Island of Electronicus was an incredible space. The pics don't do it justice. It was literally like an oasis in NAMM. Things get pretty hectic and can feel overwhelming at times. Moog's booth just made you smile and relax. Thank you Moog!

PS, there are a couple of non-synth shots in the set that might make you smile. I took them to show my wife what I was looking at. :)

Including this post, 253 NAMM2016 posts have gone up and more are sure to follow.

Update: The booth list in order of appearance in both the set and in me walking through NAMM.  The pics in the set are in the order taken.

1.   Entrance to NAMM
2.   Dave Smith Instruments
3.   Moog Music
4.   Schneiders Buero Booth featuring Doepfer, MFB, Birdkids, AJH Synth, Endorphines, soundmachines, and Haken Audio
5.   Pittsburgh Modular
6.   Modal Electronics
7.   Make Noise
8.   Moon Modular
9. WMD (4ms, Verbos & Koma pics came prior to Moon Modular as they were across from each other. The WMD modular area was huge): 4ms Pedals, Abstract Data, Audio Damage, BaSTLE, Delptronics, Elite Cases, Rossum Electronics, Expert Sleepers, Foxtone Music/ Black Market Modular, Koma Elektronik, Hexinverter, Macro Machines, Mordax Systems, Noise Engineering, Qu-Bit Electronix, Soulsby, Steady State Fate (SSF), STG Soundlabs / Detachement 3 [check out the Crowbox black SEM eurorack module!], TipTopAudio, Toppobrillo, Verbos Electronics.
10. Studio Electronics, Mode Machines, and D-Tronics (check out the massive DT7 dedicated programmer for the DX7 similar to the old Jellinghaus)
11. Roger Linn's Linnstrument
12. Tom Oberheim
13. Elektron
14. Malekko - complete with Roland banner to promote their new System 500. Check out the glowing case! You can control the color with CV control.
15. Big City Music - Analogue Systems, Critter & Guitari, Cwejman, Dewanatron, Dirty Boy Pedals, Effectrode Tube Effects, EMC, Eowave, Jomox, Livewire, Mellotron, MWFX Pedals, Sherman
16. Schmidt in the Big City Music booth.
17. Radikal Technologies
18. Waldorf
19. Arturia
20. intelligel
21. Social Entropy and Abstrakt Instrument
22. Expressive E
23. John Bowen Synth Design - check out the custom Sonic Six with Sequential Model 700 Programmer & modded Model 800 Sequencer.
24. Roland (the guy with the hat on the right is the drummer for Train - I was taking pics of the timeline and they were standing there. I asked them if they wanted to be in the pic and they said sure! :) Apologies to Ed Diaz! I took his pic right when he saw me. Trust me he was full of smiles after that pic. I was flattered to find out he knew about the site! :)
25. Yamaha
26. Novation
27. KORG
28. Tangible Instruments showing their Arpeggio
29. Industrial Music Electronics (formerly Harvestman) and Sputnik Modular Synthesizers.
30. The Bob Moog Foundation

30 booths in one day!

PERCUSSA Introduces MODULOR and expands AudioCubes product range

The official press release for MODULOR [prevoiusly posted].

"Simple but powerful modular sequencing software, tightly integrated with hands-on AudioCubes, helps you listen, focus and develop unique ideas

Erpe-Mere, Belgium, October 28th, 2009 – PERCUSSA announces Modulor for AudioCubes, a simple but powerful software application that lets you host your favourite software instruments (VSTs or AudioUnits) and quickly develop musical ideas.

The MODULOR software and AudioCubes hardware work with your existing MIDI controller and professional sound interface (ASIO or CoreAudio), and becomes the center of the music making and improvisation process, where MIDI information is recorded, looped, routed and processed, driving a rack of your favourite software instruments.

AudioCubes become an intuitive, direct, hands-on interface to record, vary, process and assemble the components of your music: loops can be easily assembled by putting their physical representations together, multiple instrument parameters can be controlled directly by hand gestures, sensed by fast and accurate optical technology, and high-intensity full-colour RGB LED lighting can be used for colour-coding recordings and MIDI effects.

Over a year in development, MODULOR expands on proven loop-based recording and improvisation concepts, by offering access to musical data through a physical interface, AudioCubes, in which units of musical data are represented by beautifuly designed physical objects. Working with units of information becomes as simple, inspiring and satisfying as working with their physical representation.

In MODULOR, bringing a loop into the mix is a matter of placing an AudioCube in the network. Taking a loop out is done by removing a cube. Putting together various loops to build up unique musical ideas is a matter of putting cubes physically together. You can easily explore how the parts you recorded can be combined to create many unique musical ideas, using the AudioCubes hands-on hardware interface. Assign colours to cubes to help you remember which part of the music goes where. Map colours to keys you’ve used while recording the loops, so you know you’ll always be in key when you bring cubes of the same colour together.

Besides being a powerful tool for recording and production, MODULOR offers great potential for advanced composers who wish to process and generate MIDI information: through the AudioCubes interface, MIDI effects, such as an arpeggiator, echo, transposer and chord generator, can be combined to create complex processing chains, simply by combining the physical objects representing the effects. An infinite number of effects can be built this way, generating unique variations of the initial MIDI recordings or live input.

Rather than trying to offer a large amount of features, with a cluttered piece of software as the result, Percussa's philosophy with MODULOR was to develop a piece of software that handles one specific task very well: development of new music. This facilitates the creative process, lets you spend less time with the computer, and lets you listen and focus more on your work.

AudioCubes hardware connects directly with MODULOR, without needing drivers. The high-speed USB connection with custom protocol delivers messages with better speed and accuracy than MIDI, through its 1kHz update rate and 10-bit resolution. The way the hardware and software integrate is identical on Mac and Windows, and plugging and unplugging hardware while the software is running is no problem, requiring no software or system restart. This is especially convenient when using MODULOR in live situations. MODULOR offers all functions on a single screen GUI layout with central workspace, so there are no complicated menus to browse or hard-to-reach functions while you're working.

AudioCubes sensors can be mapped easily to software instrument parameters in MODULOR - up to 4 per cube, which gives you access to a 4-dimensional parameter space, and to great sonic results, which are hard to reach with conventional knob-boxes.

MODULOR uses a high quality mixing section internally for its VST/AudioUnit instrument rack, and supports ASIO and CoreAudio interfaces, giving you the same audio quality as if you would run the instruments in your DAW software. Using MODULOR with your existing DAW is no problem - there is a MIDI export function which lets you export the ideas you developed as multi-track MIDI files, and easily load them into popular DAW software.

PERCUSSA recommends to use MODULOR with 4 or more AudioCubes, and has introduced a convenient 6 and 8 AudioCube set simultaneously with the release of MODULOR. These new AudioCube packages offer a significant discount over buying multiple sets of AudioCubes. When used with MODULOR, AudioCubes make a powerful and unique system for composition, music production, and live performance.

Pricing and availability

MODULOR is available as a free download from the PERCUSSA Website at http://www.percussa.com/downloads/

AudioCubes 6 cube set is available for a suggested retail price of 1049 EUR / 1559 USD at http://shop.percussa.com/

AudioCubes 8 cube set is available for a suggested retail price of 1349 EUR / 1999 USD at http://shop.percussa.com/

More information
Additional information on MODULOR is available from http://www.percussa.com/applications/modulor/ and http://www.percussa.com/uses/composition/


About PERCUSSA
PERCUSSA is the worldwide pioneer in the field of desktop tangible interfaces for music applications. The company’s mission is to stimulate and facilitate the digital creation of sound, music and visuals, through innovation in the hardware and software interfaces by which artists interact with computers.

The companies' products give both professional and amateurs access to new forms of interaction which empowers them to create unique and differentiating creative work.

PERCUSSA brought the fascinating world of tangible interface technology to the desktop of artists in early 2007, and offers a range of products to choose from, all designed and developed by its small and dedicated team located in Belgium."