JASON DONNELLY: This is Jason with Gearwire.Com, and I’ve got something really special to show to. This just came in the mail today from Belgium. What a great time. I mean there’s so many cool new electronic devices.

[JASON DONNELLY UNPACKING HIS PARCEL THAT CONTAINS THE PERCUSSA AUDIOCUBES]

The AudioCubes. Designed by a gentleman in Belgium, the company is called Percussa. It’s AudioCube.

[JASON DONNELLY UNPACKING THE PERCUSSA AUDIOCUBES]

A USB cable, the CD-ROM. the software sounds and manual are on CD-ROM.

[JASON DONNELLY UNPACKING THE PERCUSSA AUDIOCUBES]

Wow, the AudioCubes.

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So, this is just one cube. Basically what these are, they’re MIDI controllers. I believe they have, if I’m not mistaken, they have built-in effects and some kind of synthesis but I’m not sure yet. We’ll find out. I will dive deeper into these and show you exactly how to use them and what they do.

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I think these are motion sensors of some kind. There’s a USB port. Again, that’s the AudioCube. Let’s set them up. Let’s give this a shot, the AudioCubes by Percussa.

These are the AudioCubes by Percussa. We have four of them here, and what they are are MIDI controllers using light sensors. Each side has a light sensor or each panel except for the top and the bottom. They also have a USB port and an audio in and out, a 1/4” and a power button in the bottom. What this allows you to do is program each cube. They have to be connected via USB to be altered and programmed.

We’re going to start out real basic with these as I’m still learning them and they’re so unique I mean compared to most of the equipment that I’m used to working with so bear with me. There will be future segments where we get a little deeper with these, but I am going to start with the basics.

So, the first thing I’m going to do is load MIDI bridge. This is the MIDI bridge software for AudioCubes. This is where you set your parameters for each cube. So, I’ll select cube 1.

All right. So here we have the MIDI bridge software for our AudioCubes. It’s the brief overview. Here you set the color and choose your color palette for each cube. This tells you the color that you have assigned to that cube. This is your mode selector, send or receive or sensor. You can assign the MIDI channels, MIDI input and output, and then what each panel is going to do given the specific mode that you’ve set. There’s an offset on each panel as well so that you can use your hand to control and to send MIDI information or another cube if set sensitive enough. You set your offset all the way up to the top and max it out there. You can assign specific MIDI notes to each panel on each cube. You can enable and disable a panel.

That pretty much sums it up for the MIDI bridge. That pretty much sums it up for the MIDI bridge software, AudioCubes. We’ll have more in the future segments so stay tuned.