Acoustica has announced AeroMIDI, an application for the upcoming Leap Motion controller that’s designed to turn it into a 3D MIDI controller.
AeroMIDI uses the Leap Motion controller to track your fingers in space, allowing you to play configurable 3D cubes to trigger notes and CC MIDI messages using any MIDI software or MIDI hardware.
Features:
- A new way to create – Virtual 3D MIDI controller software utilizing the Leap Motion device.
- Accurate gestures – Translate your finger movements into MIDI with incredibly low latency.
- Customizable controller interface – Configurable 3D cubes let you build your own custom controller interface.
- Simultaneously control MIDI expression parameters in the 3 dimensions (left to right, front to back and top to bottom).
- Windows and Mac compatible
- 30 Simultaneous Controllers – 10 fingers in X, Y and Z gives you a total of 30 simultaneous controllers!
AeroMIDI is expected to be available in August. Pricing is TBA. See their site for more info.
via Dan Goldstein
I ordered my Leap eons ago. The teases have been pretty cool though.
Glad to see there’s a MIDI control system in the pipes as this will be immediately useful to the digital musician. However, cubes seem so clunky. Yes, they give you x/y/z coordinates quickly and simply. Somehow I would want to see the ability to create different shapes to move around in. Also, I think folks will be experimenting with ways to make this feel organic and unobtrusive. When I get mine, I’m going to set it up so my hand is much lower than the screen. I don’t want another input device that blocks my view of the screen. That should be easy enough to accomplish.
Leap is great but this cube-based interface seems rather unwieldy, to say the least. Well, early days.