Vochlea has announced the release of a standalone application that is built for producers and beatmakers who sketch ideas with their mouth. DubBox learns a user’s own kicks, snares and hi-hats, triggers real drum samples in real time, then records, quantizes and exports the result as audio or MIDI.
Some producers are voice-first. The beat arrives fully formed, out loud, and then dies somewhere between the piano roll and the drum programming. DubBox captures the performer’s real swing and timing and hands back a usable drum loop (voice, samples, mix or MIDI) that’s usable as-is, or drags straight into a DAW.
In a year when new music technology usually means generative AI, DubBox is deliberately the opposite: a translator, not a generator. It composes nothing. Every sound that comes out went in through the performer’s mouth; DubBox digitises the idea, with the producer’s own sounds, timing and feel intact.
“Everything we build starts from the same belief: the voice is the most immediate instrument there is,” said George Wright, CEO of Vochlea. “Dubler 2 turned it into a live controller for your whole studio. DubBox is a new instrument for a new player, the beatmaker whose beat is already in their mouth. It’s fully standalone, no DAW required, with 10 built-in kits and the ability to build your own sample packs in-app. Beatbox in, finished drum loop out.”
How it works
Users train DubBox on up to eight of their own vocal sounds per project, map each one to samples from the built-in or custom packs, and perform on the Play screen, hearing their voice blended with real drums as they go. Triggering is velocity-responsive, so a harder hit plays a harder drum. Record a free take without a click and DubBox detects the performance’s natural BPM, then stretches and quantizes both the sample track and the original vocal onto a clean grid. The feel survives; the timing tightens.
- Train it on your sounds: up to 8 vocal triggers per project, each mappable to one or more samples.
- Record, quantize, loop, overdub: free takes or to a click, auto-BPM detection, layered passes over a quantized loop, up to 20 takes in history.
- Sound design built in: 10 sample packs, drag-and-drop import, per-sample editing (gain, pitch, tone, drive, filter) and choke groups.
- Voice warping: quantized takes play back and export as your actual voice, time-stretched onto the grid, not a robotic re-trigger.
- Export anything: input vocal, sample track, a mix, or MIDI, ready for any DAW.
“The whole time we were building DubBox, the test was the same: does it disappear?” said Daven Sanassy, CTO of Vochlea. “A real instrument doesn’t make you think about the tool, you think about the music. So the things we cared most about are the ones you never see: getting the voice-to-sound latency low enough that it feels like the sound is coming out of you, making overdub layering and quantise keep your feel instead of grid-locking it into something stiff. Beta testers told us when we got it right, they stopped talking about features and just started making beats. That was the bar: does it work, is it fun, and is it productive?”
DubBox for Windows and Mac is available now for $69 USD / €69 EUR / £59 GBP. Existing Dubler owners can add DubBox for $39 USD / €39 EUR / £34 GBP.
More information: Vochlea
