This series of videos looks at Geco – a multi-dimensional MIDI controller app designed for use with the Leap Motion controller.
The Leap Motion is a highly accurate sensor that lets you control applications on your computer using gestures. Geco translates these motions into signals that you can use with standard music applications.
Features
- 40 different control streams with both hands
- any control stream can be mapped to MIDI CC, Pitchbend and Pitchwheel messages on 16 different channels
- instantly switch between related control streams by opening or closing your hands
- carefully designed GUI for an immediate overview of the active MIDI mappings
- real-time low-latency visual feedback of your hand movements and MIDI data
- integrated virtual MIDI port on MacOSX, additional freely available software can be used to send MIDI to other applications on Windows
- connects to any known MIDI output port on your computer, for instance hardware synthesizers, on both MacOSX and Windows
- fully customizable user interface (colours, graphical elements)
- flexible document management that can be loaded while performing gestures
- high performance and near-zero latency engine with virtually no CPU impact when the real-time visualizations are hidden
- MIDI decimation setting to allow integration with legacy hardware that has limited MIDI bandwidth
The Leap Motion will be available on July 22nd for $79.99 and Geco for an initial price of $9.99.
Looks like a great deal of thought was put into the design. The $10 early adopter price seems quite reasonable. I hope in future iterations it will allow custom gestures. (perhaps it does now?)