Tamber
Tamber provides a suite of five software tools for music producers, including a free local semantic sample search engine, voice-controlled DAW automation, and camera-based gesture recognition for playing instruments. The tools are designed to speed up creative workflows without forcing compromises on artistic control, with a Pro subscription at $9.99/month unlocking all apps.
- Music Technology
- Creator / Creative Economy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Musicians are being asked to create faster than ever, yet existing tools that promise to help often force compromises on workflow or creative beliefs. Producers face the challenge of finding specific sounds within large, unorganized sample libraries, and they are tied to mouse-driven DAW controls that slow down creative sessions.
Solution
Tamber provides a suite of five software applications that address these bottlenecks without asking users to compromise. The Librarian app is a free, local semantic search engine that scans a user's existing sample folders and tags each sample by attributes like color, texture, and feel, allowing for natural-language searches such as "dreamy guitar that feels like summer." Tamby enables hands-free DAW control by voice, letting producers set inputs, arm tracks, hit record, and set loops without touching the mouse. Gestures turns a Mac's camera into an instrument, allowing users to play chords, synth, vocoder, and effects by reaching, pinching, and singing in the air, either standalone or as a DAW plugin. City Packs delivers curated, royalty-free field recordings from cities around the world flipped into musical samples, while Sonic Atlas provides a new way to discover music by dropping into any of 150 cities and sliding the year from 1942 to the present.
Target Audience
Primary users are music producers and musicians who own large sample libraries and work in DAW environments on macOS or Windows, seeking faster creative workflows without compromising on artistic control.
Features
- Librarian: Local semantic sample search indexing folders in real time, tagging sounds by synesthetic qualities (color, texture, feel) and enabling loose or exact descriptions like "buzzy synth lead in F, long decay"
- Librarian: Fully on-machine indexing and search—nothing uploads or round-trips, ensuring speed and privacy
- Tamby: Voice-activated DAW control for setting inputs, arming tracks, hitting record, and setting loops without a mouse
- Gestures: Camera-based gesture recognition allowing users to reach in to play chords, pinch to sweep filters, and sing through a vocoder with live harmonies, usable standalone or as a plugin
- City Packs: Curated field recordings from local artists in cities like Rio, Shanghai, New York, Seoul, and Istanbul, flipped into royalty-free musical samples by a team of musicians (never generative AI)
- Sonic Atlas: A visual discovery tool covering 150 cities with a sliding year selector from 1942 to present day for exploring regional music history