Nirtous Oxide
From Music Hack Day
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[edit] About the hack
Coded by:
- Sean Micklethwaite
- Dan Horgan
- Mac Duy, Hai
- Nick Palmer
Inspired by boredom, lack of money for fancy MIDI controllers and colourful fruit. This hack empowers budding jugglers-cum-musicians to fuse their talents and embrace their creativity.
The hack is a python script that lets a webcam track the position of various coloured objects at the same time, and use those positions as MIDI output. Objects can be interpreted as buttons (on if it's in view, off if not), horizontal and vertical sliders, or like an XY trackpad. This can be hooked up to any MIDI controllable application, like Ableton, to control anything a normal MIDI controller could. Or, as demonstrated, with python scripts containing custom MIDI controller functions on them to alter params.
[edit] What APIs, tools or kit did you use?
- PyGame
- OpenCV
- etc.
[edit] Images/Screenshots
No, this makes music.
[edit] Anything left to do
- Simple settings
- Improve object tracking code to be a little more reliable
