Leap Motion with Traktor: First Attempt – dBeam plus Gesture Controller and Mouse enhancement

Leap Motion is back with a MIDI bridge, so they are aware of making music and using it as a controller. Also this is multitouch another way, not really „touching“ a screen but gestures in front of it – so maybe a gesture for some things may be possible… so yes – you can do your MIDI with it without coding your own translator software. but still you can point your finger to photoshop and play games.. -> GECO is the name of the MIDI app. Die Finger und Hand…

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Roland dBeam Keyboard A49 (& A88)

Yeah, Roland sells Keyboards with dBeams, I never quite liked that Bender principle, but having a free assignable dBeam or 2 has always been part of my wet dreams, so I still have a wishlist (3 Octave iPadable dual dBeam version), but this is worth a second look.. 180€ for one seems „ok“, no 3 Octave Version, but lots of good things and I trust Roland more to have a quite good one inside, well – let’s wait till they are really touchable. available as A49 and A88, so the…

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