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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.

An introduction to how the Percussa AudioCubes can be used with Ableton Live to make drum and bass music.

Percussa, a Belgium based electronic musical instruments company, will debut new software for its AudioCubes hardware platform at the upcoming 2008 NAMM Show.
AudioCubes are a unique and visually intriguing performance tool that can be used as fully assignable MIDI controllers for music and multimedia as well as a standalone wireless digital/analog lo-fi sound generator and [...]