Remember when the peak of interactive toys was a plastic guitar that judged your rhythm skills in front of the whole living room? Loops Lab has leveled up that entire category, and this time the toys actually want you to be creative instead of just mashing colored buttons.Ad 0:00 Click for sound 0:00 / 0:00 The premise is simple enough to explain to a kid and clever enough to hook an adult who still has a SoundCloud account.
You get a small army of collectible DJ figurines, each one loaded with its own sound, loop, vocal snippet or FX.Plop them onto a “responsive stage,” and the hardware instantly reads which characters are present before blending their sounds.
Swap a figure out ,and the track shifts with real-time tempo adjustment.The system is essentially part toy chest, part electronic music sampler and part tiny stage production.
Founded by a team of musicians and inventors, Loops Lab clearly built the product with an obsession for tactile play.The company says its goal is to make music creation accessible and hands-on for pretty much anyone, whether that means a child crafting their first beat at the kitchen table or a grown adult who wants to become a DJ (there are more of these than you think).
There’s something genuinely satisfying about physically arranging sound the way you would arrange building blocks like LEGOs, and Loops Lab leans into that instinct hard, especially for electronic music enthusiasts who love to play with synthesizers and drum machines.Those attending EDC Las Vegas, the largest EDM festival North America, may have seen the tech: Scroll to continue more from edm Spotify and Liquid Death Curate Soundtrack for the Afterlife With “First Ever Music-Streaming Urn” What makes the product especially interesting is the collectibility angle.
Every figurine becomes a new instrument, so building your library feels like assembling your...