Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it’s a checkerboard

Checkers? Go? | Image: Alon Daniel / Musical Beings

Tembo looks similar a toy, but 1 of those bougie woody toys you get connected Crate & Kids, not immoderate inexpensive integrative garbage. Despite its appearance, it is simply a afloat functional drum instrumentality and sampler. Rather than a clump of buttons and a screen, you physique beats connected Tembo by placing what are fundamentally woody checkers connected a board. The constituent is to beryllium approachable to would-be euphony makers of immoderate property oregon accomplishment level.

The halfway of Tembo is simply a beauteous straightforward five-track measurement sequencer. Wooden tokens are held successful spot with magnets, and you conscionable enactment them wherever you privation the deed to land. There are 8 illustration packs built in, but you tin besides illustration utilizing …

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