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Teenage Engineering Choir is a collection of eight ‘singing’ wooden dolls. It’s MIDI wooden doll choir is the most baffling music tech product of the year. This Eight-piece ensemble can sing built-in songs or you can feed it your own

This set of eight wooden dolls is designed to “serenade you with a repertoire of choral classics,” and can also be triggered by your OP-1 Field or any Bluetooth MIDI keyboard, so can ‘sing’ your own compositions, too. Each doll has its own voice and vocal range, and can perform solo or as part of a wider ensemble.

The collection of pre-installed songs – which includes festive classics such as Deck The Halls and Auld Lang Syne – has been created using an algorithm based on counterpoint melody, a music theory technique that involves using two or more independent melodies that complement each other (a bassline and synth lead would be one contemporary example).

Once a song has been chosen, each doll’s performance can be started by tapping its head or giving it a light tap on the table, while tilting a doll left or right will decrease or increase its volume. “If it gets annoying, it can handle a little smack to turn it off,” says Teenage Engineering.

Each doll has a unique ‘personality’ and is made from solid beech. In true babushka style, the speaker/CPU can be found inside, while each doll is rechargeable and offers up to four hours of performance time.

Even by Teenage Engineering’s standards, the Choir is an audacious release, and feels more like an art project than a product with any genuine commercial viability.

What they say about the choir:

“made to serenade you with a repertoire of choral classics, as well as perform your own original compositions through midi over ble.

each member has their own characteristic vocal range. individually one can sing a dynamic solo, together they perform an immersive a cappella concert.

the choir is inspired by the original absolute choir, our very first project.”

The dolls are available now for $249/£249 each.

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Find out more on the Teenage Engineering website.

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Spitfire Audio has announced the Abbey Road Orchestra: Low Percussion.

Low Percussion explores the timbral and textural range of 20 drums from across the orchestral repertoire and further, with up to seven beater options per drum, performing hits, rolls, swirls and sweeps, performed by virtuoso percussionist Joby Burgess and sampled in incredible detail.

Spitfire says that the new sound library lays the foundations for their flagship Professional Composer Series, as the most detailed sample library that it has ever created. It features performances by British world-class percussionist Joby Burgess (Black Panther, Mission: Impossible) in Abbey Road Studios’ world-famous Studio One, beautifully captured by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Simon Rhodes (Skyfall, Avatar).

Company co-founder Paul Thomson describes the new sound library as “a collection of unique and rare instruments, captured in extreme detail, and with really expressive feel. This is the most detail we have ever created in any of our projects.”

Abbey Road Orchestra: Low Percussion is available as an AAX-, AU-, VST2-, and VST3-compatible, NKS-ready plug-in with an intro price of £299.00 (inc. VAT)/$349.00 /€349.00 (inc. VAT) through December 1, 2022 (normally £399.00 (inc. VAT)/$449.00 /€449.00 (inc. VAT)).

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Euro maker William Mathewson Devices (WMD) let us know that their web store will be permanently closing on December 1st, 2022.

Earlier this year, WMD – a Denver-based manufacturer of modular synthesizers, effects pedals and musical instruments – announced that it would be closing at the end of 2022. At the time, they said that they were unable to reliably get the parts they need to be able to introduce and manufacturer the new synth modules needed to be profitable.

The details that they shared on the web store closing:

“In order for us to catch up with orders and get everything shipped before we move out of our building, the WMD webstore will be taking its last orders on November 30th, closing on December 1st.

WMD/SSF products have been moved to 50% off for new orders, while supplies last! Get some great gear at an incredible discount while you can.

Our 30% on most items sale is still happening as well, so be sure to take advantage of that before December!

We will likely be building and shipping stuff into next year, so please continue to have patience with us if you place any preorders. Place orders with out-of-stock items separately in order to get in-stock items more quickly.

Thank you for all of your messages, words of encouragement, and support during this time. We’re so grateful to have such awesome customers and friends in this industry!

– Alex & WMD”

Editor’s note: Kudos to William, Alex and the rest of WMD for handling this in a professional manner – giving the community ample warning on their plans to shut down and generously discounting products as they clear out their warehouse.

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