Musical Beings launches Tembo, a wooden drum machine that wants to make everyone feel musical

Musical Beings, a startup founded by former Google and Waves Audio engineers, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Tembo — a wooden magnetic drum machine, step sequencer, and sampler designed to make music creation accessible to literally anyone. The pitch is straightforward: Tembo looks like a board game, feels like a toy, and functions like a proper studio instrument. Users place magnetic “Beats” on a wooden grid to trigger sounds, twist physical knobs to shape them, and can record their […]