Both products iKeepActive and iKeepActive Lite have been voluntarily pulled out from the Mac App Store earlier this year and will remain out until further notice.
Loop Motion Sneak Peek
Here are some teaser videos of the Loop Motion touch-less drum machine.
Announcing Loop Motion
Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a developer unit of the Leap Motion device. This device will become available in Best Buy stores in May. In my initial brainstorming quite a few ideas came up, mostly around audio and sound…
Back in the mid-late 90’s a couple of friends and I spent a lot of time writing lyrics and making hip hop beats on our computers. Some of us ‘evolved’ from there and went onto hardware-only configurations. Back in the day the industry has relied on physical drum machines (like the legendary TR-909), but nowadays there are hardware/software solutions. There are arguments for using each, but either way you cut it, none of this is cheap.
How about a software solution which relies of inexpensive ‘hardware’, but it is ‘hardware’ that you never have to touch? Can we have a drum machine that is not a machine at all, but interacts with your hands just like one?
So currently I have a new software project underway called “Loop Motion”. It is passed the prototype stage, and now a working version is already in early production. Some of the features I hope to achieve are:
- Touch-less, velocity sensitive hand gestures for ‘beating’ on virtual drum pads
- Visualization of beats played
- Real-time recording of notes played by gestures
- Looped playback of the last recorded sequence while recording the next sequence
- Variable length bars and tempo control
- Load your own sound font or map notes to the virtual drum pads
- Multitrack support*
- Visualization of bars on tracks*
- Multiple instrument support*
- Effects*
*Items for future consideration, definitely not to be expected in version 1.0
This is a little different than any software project I’ve worked on these past twelve years, but I think it will be fun. Enjoy some photos for the meantime.
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