8-bit music.
Made with Kinect.
Want.
Dubstep has existed for quite a while, it's just that 'new' dubstep has become the mainstream part of the genre. For some reason that part of the genre has a high appeal to people.
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Synapse for Kinect does dubstep theremins and more
Thanks to a new, totally free Kinect project called Synapse, you can turn your body into an instrument. It's an open-source application for Windows and Mac that allows you to control music and visual elements in Ableton Live, Quartz Composer and other programs using Kinect. Above is a demonstration from its programmer, Ryan Challinor, who works at Harmonix when he isn't making cool stuff like this. In his own words, Synapse for Kinect "allows you to do things like play with a dubstep theremin while you have fire shooting out of your hands." Finally, my dreams are starting to come true! Follow that first link for the download and documentation. Ryan Challinor Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)Turn your kinect into a basic midi controller. Not a bad idea, but if people didn't know how it worked during a live performance, they would just think you were dancing to the prerecorded oontz. I can't fucking stand DUBSTEP. I used to be all into techno back ten years ago when I was 18, but DUBSTEP is a made up term. House, Jungle, Trance. DUBSTEP? Fuck off. Buncha bullshit. Techno/EDM fan for 10+ years... Now all I listen to is Dub/Dnb. This makes Kinect a must have for me, so excited! And once again this proves that Kinect is a wonderful piece of technology...that is good for everything except games. You know, the whole reason is was constructed in the first place. This is literally the first thing I've seen that has made me WANT a Kinect. The Ghost Recon game implementation at E32011 was pretty cool but this actually makes me WANT the damn thing. As a fan of electronic music of (almost) all kinds(including some dubstep) this is something that I'd just love to spend hours simply messing around in/with. Though, I'd fear that it would be too advanced for me to come up with a true masterpiece. In the video, that "boing" sound effect he used, when warped, sounded a bit like 8-bit lasers.
8-bit music. Made with Kinect. Want. Why does every article about a cool Kinect mod on a PC follow with somebody ranting that "Kinect is good for everything but gaming, wahhhh." These are simply mods, people. Mods that could one day be implemented into games. Its much easier to use the Kinect SDK to make some simple app than it is to program an entire game. God damnit, as soon as I saw the E3 2009 Natal reveal I said: Yo, somebody should make Theremin Hero. is dubstep the new boy band craze of techno? i havnt heard much about dubstep until about a few months ago and now its everywhere. stop making up genres to fit your crappy music. @fetusmilk
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