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Air Piano - The Theremin Style Keyboard

The Airpiano is a keyboard designed and developed by Omer Yosha. What's cool about it is that there are no keys. Or atleast no keys you can see. Like the Theremin you play it "in air" sweeping your hands around over it.

 

A short demo

www.airpiano.de The AirPiano is an innovative musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air. Above the AirPiano is a virtual matrix of keys and faders, each assigned with MIDI messages and ready to be triggered. The length of a triggered note is equivalent to the time a hand is placed on the corresponding virtual key. This is also confirmed by LED feedback. The AirPiano Software allows easy setup, loading/saving presets and transposing notes.The AirPiano is still in its prototype phase and its concept of a virtual matrix might eventually be used for other applications and purposes.The AirPiano concept is filled as a Provisional U.S. Patent Application (Number: 60/989,986).Specifications: Polyphonic, MIDI protocol, Up to 24 keys / 8 faders, USB connectivity

 

Here's the AirPiano Controlling Ableton Live

 

Check out www.airpiano.de for more information.

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Been into synthesizers for 15 years, but never a technical geek. I'm a member of the band Velours Perfect, and have had electronic music as a hobby since I stopped playing with G.I Joe Figures. I buy and sell synths all the time, sometimes manically, and my favourite synth varies, right now it is the Alesis Ion. On this blog you can read about whatever comes out of my mind, mostly synthesizer-related stuff though. Bzzt!

 

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