Geco MIDI Gesture Control For Leap Motion - Review

Published on Dec 3, 2013 sonicstate·580 videos

"Leap Motion brings us gestural control, Geco turns it into MIDI data for control over OSC and CopperLAN too."

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Geco: https://airspace.leapmotion.com/apps/geco-midi/osx

"GECO is one of the easiest and most powerful solutions to interact with MIDI/OSC/CopperLan through touchless control. Our custom multi-staged processing engine ensures an extremely low processing overhead and near zero latency, while still providing you with beautiful real-time visual feedback and powerful customization capabilities. GECO has been designed for live performance and quick configuration during rehearsal by industry professionals that have years of experience with high-speed low-latency electronic music software.

GECO doesn't produce or manipulate sound directly, its purpose is to control other software or hardware that understands MIDI, OSC or CopperLan.

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 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)
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
What's New
Version 1.1.0
Added gesture axis boundaries that are configurable per document with minimum and maximum limits. This also allows for dead zones to be created around the center.
Added Channel Pressure (Aftertouch) as a supported MIDI message.
Added OSC output through per-gesture configurable channels.
Added configurable per-gesture OSC paths.
Added CopperLan output through per-gesture configurable channels.
Added CopperLan gesture destination learning.
Added per-document CopperLan assignments storage.
Per-gesture specialized output data rendering for either MIDI, OSC or CopperLan.
Experimental support for MacOSX 10.6.8 without any guarantees of stability nor performance since this in not an officially supported platform for the Leap Motion controller."