New fruit-based MIDI-controller

Check out this video with Dr. Robert Schneider and Elijah Wood presenting a new kind of synth controller: By the way, the new Apples in Stereo record is here

OSC Controller nearly finished

The C++-based OSC-controler I’ve been working on for my master degree in music technology is nearly finished. Here is a screenshot: As you can see it’s on Windows, but since I’ve been using the openFrameworks library, it should be possible to compile it for Mac and Linux as well. The sound is generated in Max. [...]

OpenFrameworks 0.06 released

Today version 0.06 of OpenFrameworks was released. There has been a lot of changes including the most important: new library Poco ( http://pocoproject.org) included – used for events event system for base events (setup, update, draw, mouse, keyboard) and constructing new events the addons.h system has been dropped in place of direct inclusion of addons [...]

The history of multitouch

Bill Buxton of Microsoft research has made an overview of what has happened in multi-touch research. For those of you who thought multi-touch first came with Jeff Han or the Iphone, have a look at this page. The picture on top here is from the Multi-Touch Tablet developed at Toronto University in 1985. By the [...]

Master project update

I’m currently working hard on my master degree project. I’m making a controller / sequencer interface program for touch screen (sadly no multi-touch yet). The program will have various functions, among them the drum sequencer that you can see in this picture: (never mind the colors, they are a little bit ugly) When the sequencer [...]

DIY multitouch

Now you can buy a DIY multitouch kit! You will also need a projector and a modified web cam. More about the project: http://eyebeam.org/project/cubit More DIY multitouch: Lumenlab NUI Group – makers of the Touchlib library (NUI = natural User Interface)