Creative technology company Tamber has launched Tamber v2.0, adding enhanced creative tools, new functionality and native Windows support to its music creation platform.
Tamber v2.0 is built to work alongside artists’ existing digital audio workstations and production tools rather than requiring them to adopt an entirely new workflow.
As part of the update, Tamber’s five core tools – Gestures, Tamby, Librarian, City Packs, and Sonic Atlas – are now available as dedicated apps within one connected suite.
Almost all of this came from users telling us what they needed
Zoe Wrenn, Tamber
Founded by musician, technologist and entrepreneur Zoe Wrenn, Los Angeles-based Tamber builds assistive, non-generative tools for music creation. The "sonic intelligence" music tech start-up allows users to describe sounds in "intuitive, sensory terms", while retaining full authorship over the resulting work.
"Almost all of this came from users telling us what they needed,” said Wrenn. “Gestures is a real instrument now – it has its own synth and vocoder engines, so you can play it on its own with no DAW at all, or load it as a plug-in right into your session. We rebuilt Librarian from the ground up, and Tamby is something you can pull up mid-take without losing your place. I've been in my own sessions with it for weeks and it doesn't feel like an update. It feels like a new product."
The platform says it does not generate finished songs, stems or samples, and has never been trained on third-party audio. Instead, it helps musicians "operate their own tools, navigate their own sounds and move more fluidly from an idea to a finished track".
Tamber is backed by $5 million in funding from Adobe Ventures, M13, Rackhouse Venture Capital and a network of artist-investors.
