Leap Motion Controlling Music via Gestures in Airspace Geco Software sending MIDI + OSC to your instruments + SoundMorph Timeflux

I posted about Leap Motion earlier – this time it is a Max Addition to Ableton Live to be controlled by the Leap Motion Controller – looks a bit like dBEam but it is in fact a bit more than that – so it is more in the Kinect category of controllers than measuring a distance alone. It could look like this in a promo video: GECO : musical expression from thin air!Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen it understands OSC, has 40 gestures or better means – it can handle…

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Palette – lots of modular knobs

Palette is an approach like Mawzer – you can put your knobs where you like them to be, but they are quite large. so this may apply to some simple things like Photoshop controls – but one large perfect self made controller of your own will be hard to do – nice and cool lego’eque idea – anyway. eine tolle Idee – einen eigenen Controller zu bauen. So träumten auch schon andere wie Mawzer – das Problem – die einzelnen Knöpfe und Elemente waren meist sehr teuer und etwas groß. Deshalb wird…

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Imogen Heap gloves that turn gestures into music

MIDI Gloves are not new, but since in 2000’th people understand much more that these are controlling something „in the computer“ it’s time to have Imogen  showing these without being „techie“.. so this The Gloves Project and some ways to go and start to read, start with the Overview first some techno stuff controlling modular synths – and – this is how to replace a keyboard. Part 3: Sneak-Thief's "Sneaky Gestures" – A gestural midi instrumentDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen since this videos seems not to allow embedding you need to jump…

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Akai & Alesis storming the studio – new APC 40 Mk2, new Analog Drum Machine Rhythm Wolf with Bass Synth

New APCs – all more portable – so better for live-people. and a special „mini“ version that responds to Novations Mini-Launchpads. The new APC40 mk2 will be at the same price tag as before. The mini version is at 119€ and seem like the APC20 or a launch pad plus faders which is a very good combination if one can set them to set steps and values of MIDI CC, Notes etc. Also new is a key-version of the APC Mini ! http://youtu.be/hDmUNYfwBVk • Akais Rhythm Wolf – Analog Bass Synth…

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what is coming up next – NDVR & Stuff

Mosaik is a granular beat matching tool for 16×32 slots with live input with beat & transient detection. it’s so to say some kind of DJing approach but also the engine we know from Ableton Live and Bitwig which is coming to town at the same time – End of March. # this is a player not a DAW but maybe they focus on audio quality since the newer IOS devices are more and more powerful and even got 64bit. Musikmesse is near, so this is not the only one, the…

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NAMM 2014 III – Controllers, Izotope Break Tweaker Groovebox Software & Waldorf 2Pole

ok, NAMM is running and it seems most news is/has been said: there is one more thing.. 1) Waldorf shows a Rocket-Sized Box – 2Pole – it’s a filter box – it looks like this: so it has distortion stereo input and an AD envelope with hold and an LFO for control of the filter. NAMM 2014: Waldorf 2-Pole Analog FilterDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen image: debug: 2) Break Maker is the name of a beat creation software from iZotope it’s not a controller it’s a pure software groovebox tool.…

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