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Percussa has announced a lot of AudioCubes news in the last few days:

They announced a new AudioCubes Shop. The new shop offers software such as Propellerheads Reason and Ableton Live, and sound packs, besides the 2 and 4 AudioCube sets. It should also make it easier to order from anywhere in the world, track order [...]

 

Percussa has released a free sound pack release that contains 30 Drum and Bass style sounds in WAV format, from Loopmaster’s Artist Series of sound libraries, and a premapped Ableton Live 7 set for AudioCubes.
Also - don’t miss our drum n bass AudioCubes demo video.
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In contrast to the standard demo which is included with software [...]

 

David Battino over at EM has published a review of the Percussa AudioCubes, the exotic, illuminated music controller and audio processors.
Boutique instruments naturally cost more, but you usually pay more for anything unique. Consider, too, that AudioCubes look striking, work with popular software, and offer enormous potential for customization. Inventor Bert Schiettecatte fairly bubbles with [...]

 

Propellerheads has announced a Percussa AudioCubes giveaway for Reason users.
To enter the contest, you need to be a Reason 4 owner.
Here’s how to enter:

Record a video where you tell (in not so many words) us why you upgraded to Reason version 4 and how you feel about it.
Send the video to Propellerheads as a video [...]

 

Livid has put together a couple of cool videos demoing AudioCube basics:
Percussa Cubes Basics

Impressions and demonstration of using the Percussa Audio cubes with the tutorial Ableton Live set. The center cube detects the faces of the other cubes to send MIDI notes to Live to change loops.
Percussa Cubes with Resonant Synth

Here’s the setup:
Using the distance [...]

 

This video, by Livid Instruments, shows scratching with Percussa AudioCubes:
I set up four loops in an audio looper program I’ve been working on for future release by Livid Instruments. I’m using the speed of my hand gestures as detected by the four distance sensors on the audio cube to change the playback speed and direction [...]

 

Percussa’s Bert Schiettecatte offers an inside view on creating and testing the AudioCubes, the first commercially available tangible interface technology in the world.
Schiettecatte also repeatedly drops boxed AudioCubes, over and over and over. And then maybe a couple of more times.
More on the AudioCubes here and here.

 

A demo of the Percussa AudioCubes in action, being used to control drum and bass samples via Ableton Live.