The music creation platform's update makes each tool its own app, and turns the gesture-controlled Gestures into a standalone instrument and plugin.
Tamber has released v2.0 of its music creation platform, adding native Windows support and splitting its five tools into dedicated apps under one account. The Los Angeles company, founded by musician and technologist Zoe Wrenn, builds assistive tools that run alongside your DAW rather than replacing it, and this update lets you open just the part you need and move between them through a single login.
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Tamber’s tools run on what it calls Sonic Intelligence, which the company describes as assistive and non-generative. Rather than producing finished songs, stems or samples, and without being trained on third-party audio, it translates language, emotion, colour, texture and movement into control over your own tools and sounds. Developed in part with musicians who experience synaesthesia, the idea is that you can describe a sound in sensory terms while keeping full authorship of the result.
The headline change in v2.0 is Gestures, which lets you control instruments and vocal effects with your hands through a webcam. It now runs both as a standalone instrument and a VST3/AU plugin, with lower latency between movement and sound. “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 plugin right into your session,” says Wrenn.
Tamby, the in-session assistant that controls Ableton Live by spoken or typed commands, now appears as an overlay you can call up and dismiss mid-take, and keeps a chat history of past prompts. Librarian, rebuilt for this version, searches your own sample library by feel rather than filename, so a request like “a drum sound that feels like ice” turns up matches, with a new floating Mini-Librarian search bar that works over any DAW.
Rounding out the suite, City Packs are field-recording collections capturing the sound of cities around the world, moving to a new pack each month, while Sonic Atlas is a visual tool for exploring music across countries and eras, now with the option to save discoveries for later.
Tamber v2.0 is available now on Mac and Windows, with a 14-day free trial. Check it out here.
