A LIVE-JAM SYSTEM BY REMOTEBB · THE VENUE IS OPEN

BBJAM
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A modular jam rig that lives in the browser. One clock, any device, every instrument — loop your voice, mangle it through 170 Kaoss programs, hand your friends iPads, and play the whole room like one machine.

THE IDEA

The room is the instrument.

Not an app. A venue. The hub keeps the session — clock, roster, routing — and every tool is gear you deploy onto whatever screens are lying around.

01 — TIME

ONE CLOCK RULES

The room has a pulse before anyone plays. Record a loop and your loop becomes the tempo — every device, delay, and beat-dot in the room snaps to it. The drummer is whoever's got the groove.

02 — SIGNAL

GESTURES, NOT AUDIO

Surfaces send touches, notes, and knobs across the bus — tiny messages, no streams. Sound is made wherever the engine lives, so the whole jam comes out of one rig, tight.

03 — SPACE

DEPLOY ANYTHING

Every device that walks in is a shell. From any screen, push KEYS onto that iPad, an XY pad onto that phone, the bridge onto the laptop with the MIDI keyboard. Rearrange the stage mid-song.

THE ROOM

Everything talks over one bus.

Live stage plot: dashed lines are gestures & clock riding the bus. Solid gear makes the sound.

HUB CLOCK · BUS · DEPLOY BBTRON-5K LOOPER · TEMPO LEADER BBKAOSS FX BRAIN · 170 PROGRAMS BBSYNTH POLYSYNTH · BUS-NATIVE iPADS & PHONES KEYS · XY · PADS · MUTES SILENT SURFACES MIDI BRIDGE ANY KEYBOARD, ANY DEVICE, PLAYS ANY TOOL
THE REEL

Twenty seconds, on the grid.

THE RACK

Gear that shows up to play.

BBTRON-5K LOOPING DESK

Sample-accurate 8-track live looper. Your first loop is free-form — the tempo follows you. Slicing, scenes, risers, a pattern engine, and a landing gear for songs. The room's drummer.

BBKAOSS EFFECTS BRAIN

A KP3+ reborn: 27 hand-built DSP units, 170 programs, a typed mod-matrix. Runs standalone, follows the room's clock — or splices straight into BBTRON's master bus, one click.

BBSYNTH BUS-NATIVE POLYSYNTH

Plays from any keyboard in the room — hardware via the bridge, an iPad running KEYS, or your laptop's home row. Tempo-synced delay grooves with the session automatically.

KEYS + CONTROLLER SILENT SURFACES

Multitouch keyboards and Kaoss XY pads that make zero sound themselves — touches become notes at whatever engine you aim them at. Toss an iPad to a friend; they're in the band.

MIDI BRIDGE HARDWARE, ANYWHERE

Plug a keyboard into any device on the WiFi and route it to any tool by name. MIDI-learn binds remote knobs like they're local. The room is one big patchbay.

BBPATCH THE CANVAS — IN THE WORKS

Next up: lay every tool and device on a canvas and drag cables between them — routing as a playable surface, automation nodes on the clock grid. The whole room, patchable.

THE CREED
The room has a pulse before anyone plays.
Move gestures, not audio.
Arm on the bar. Fire on the downbeat.
Not-playing is a musical act.
Anything you can imagine is a tool.

— DESIGN TENETS DISTILLED FROM MILES, ZORN'S COBRA, CONDUCTION & DEEP LISTENING

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