Good news for all Leap Motion users. Geco MIDI, an gestural MIDI controller app programmed by Geert Bevin (LinnStrument…) is now available as a free download.
GECO is a pure MID app that allows musicians to control software and hardware with gestures. Which instruments you want to control, depends only if your device understand MIDI, OSC or CopperLan. A interesting innovative app that gives musicians another way to work with hardware / software instruments and effects.
Features:
- 40 different control streams with both hands
- Any control stream can be mapped to MIDI CC, Channel Pressure, Pitchbend and Pitchwheel messages on 16 different channels
- High-resolution 14-bit MIDI support with customizable fine message number
- High-resolution OSC support with customizable paths and OSC server selection
- Full support for CopperLan data output, assignment, learning and mapping storage
- Tunable gesture boundaries with support for defining dead zones around the center positions
- 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, background image)
- 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
- Advanced data output tuning with range inversion, minimum and maximum boundaries, distribution curves, attack and decay times
Available here for free: GECO MIDI
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