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Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

https://www.nanassound.com/products/software/airbending
50•bepitulaz•7h ago

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johng•6h ago
This is really cool, thanks for sharing.
Animats•6h ago
Theremin.

Here's someone playing a theremin who's reasonably good.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymk

CharlesW•6h ago
Imogen Heap demonstrating her Mi.Mu gloves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-yB6EgVW4

Using the gloves during an NPR Tiny Desk concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QtklTXbKUQ&t=555s

vunderba•6h ago
From the article: "When using AirBending for pitch control, you can lock your gestures to specific musical scales and keys. This ensures every note you play is perfectly in tune with your composition"

Reminds me of the Moog Theremini - that was a fun bit of kit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremini

singularity2001•5h ago
Great work but wouldn't the iPhone with the lidar depth sensor be a better device?
bepitulaz•4h ago
It’s on the plan to expand this app for iPhone. But, I haven’t tried lidar, so I decided to release for macOS first.

Also with iPhone, I have to think how to transmit MIDI data to DAW on laptop. Well, most likely via USB or network.

import•4h ago
I do this with "Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter". iPad basically talks to the midi sequencer via USB.
docEdub•4h ago
Apple devices can do MIDI over Bluetooth. I've used this in the past to send VisionPro hand tracking data as MIDI.
blacksignal•4h ago
Not just a ‘theremin’ — that totally downplays the power of midi. Someone else mentioned the mimu gloves, and I love the idea of a vision based controller - almost everyone has a phone, tablet or laptop with a camera, especially if theyre making music.

I also love that this could blur the lines of music playing and dance.

Great job OP, thanks for sharing.

abalaji•3h ago
Seems like the same software could be used as a soundtrack for Tai Chi exercises. Would be pretty neat.
Obscurity4340•3h ago
This instruments timbre and tone are literally dream shit to me, so wavy and I dont know—unearthly/worldly
irvanputra•1h ago
I wonder if Linux version will be available.

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Show HN: AirBending – Hand gesture based macOS app MIDI controller

https://www.nanassound.com/products/software/airbending
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