New Soundsets for Soundbeam 6 - May 2023

We are delighted to announce the release of 14 new Soundbeam 6 Soundsets. We've expanded the variety of genres and experiences from A Jungle Walk to Pachellebel Cannon. There are some amazing collaborations from renowned composers, musicians and artists. Here are some examples...Scroll down for download instructions

John Baggot - WINTERS ASH
(and Winters Close) are both original compositions for Soundbeam by the talented Composer, Producer and Musician, John Baggott. John is a regular collaborator, writer and performer with seminal bands Massive Attack and Portishead and has composed and recorded Grammy nominated albums with Robert Plant.

Pete Judge - NOCTULE
An opportunity to perform alongside the fantastic composer and multi-instrumentalist Pete Judge.

Spindle Ensample - OKEMAH SUNDOWN
This beautiful and original piece from the Spindle Ensemble is reminiscent of the works of Ennio Morricone (most famous perhaps for his scores for Sergio Leone’s great spaghetti westerns of the 1960’s)

Red Deer Sleeping - FLINT
This beautiful piece of music and simple film are the creation of ‘Red Dear Sleeping’, at the heart of the song is the Christina Rossetti poem ‘An Emerald is as green as grass’ (written c.1892)

We've had some great feedback and a review of the new Soundsets from Mike Whitlock of Victoria Education, Poole.  Here's some of Mike's favourites with a few playing ideas as well.

A Jungle Walk – BRILLIANT, perfect for our A.S.D. and pre-formal classes great video clips a real winner that will be used a lot.
Flint – Beautiful song, the new 2 wooden spoons, great for our students to learn about leaving spaces in music (not playing when the vocals are singing)
G-Jam – another great lesson in a sound-set, you’ve done the lesson planning for us with this one and I can see it being used a lot.
Ibiza Dance Mix – Very popular with the students, great video clip, great samples on the switches.
Love Song – Love it!! Very popular with all
Noctule – LOVE IT, thinking of using this one for a new assembly piece. 

Okemah Sundown – I Think this one is our favourite in every way, we (the teachers) love it and so did the students, beautiful tune, beautiful samples and perfect video clip, a real winner.
Pachelbel Canon X2, much used here so nice to have the 2 versions, always used when new orchestra members join us and we have used it to demonstrate how many pop songs come from it so another winner.
Songs of Rescue – another great all-rounder, perfect for A.S.D. pre-formal and those students that have higher learning level as well, love that it has several choices of video clip.
Winters Ash & Winters Close – same as above, an all-rounder, winters ash with its choice of Video and love the way you’ve made the first 4 switches an instrument for one player or (as we did) give 4 students a switch each and conduct, lots of fun.

to download and install = two zip files

NOTE: the new Soundsets will be added to your current Soundset library, they will not replace or write over any Soundsets that were already installed or created by yourself.

We have separated the films from the Soundsets to make the size of the two Zip files more manageable. Do not unzip the files, they will load as zip files into Soundbeam 6.

Using a USB stick

Make sure there is enough space for all the files on the USB stick.

Once you have downloaded the two Zip files (DO NOT UNZIP THE FILES, leave them as zip files) to a computer and put the two zip files onto a USB stick...

1. Insert USB stick into rear of Soundbeam 6.

2. Load any soundset.

3. Press the cog wheel (under settings)

4. Select File Transfer to Soundbeam

5. Select the USB device

6. Select the Zip file you want to upload

7. After a minute or two a message appears telling you the number of files extracted successfully..

8. Turn the unit off (using the Soundbeam 6 on/off button on the back only) – then reboot and repeat steps 2 - 7 with the other Zip file.

9. Once both are loaded – turn off the unit (using the Soundbeam 6 on/off button on the back only) and then turn on again.

All 14 Soundsets should be fully operational and ready to explore – feel free to contact us if you need any support with this.

over a Network via Ethernet cable

If you want to do the above over a network via ethernet cable instead of a USB stick – follow directions here