In late 2012 I created a motion-controlled harp demo using prototype hardware from LEAP Motion. The demo was a big hit and LEAP embraced the project into their developer outreach program. This led to me quitting my engineering job at Universal Audio in 2013 and starting Handwavy. We launched two apps on day one in LEAP Motion's Airspace app store: AirHarp and AirBeats .
LEAP Motion has recently moved to a new model in which these apps can be downloaded free of charge, so I am open-sourcing these projects in case they are useful to anyone exploring the realms of interactive musical app development. The interesting subfolder are:
common
airdrums
airharp-draft3
Credits are due to the following people:
- Bob Nagy, Software Engineering
- Ryan Dunn & Wyeth Hansen of Labour NY, UI Design
- Reavis Mitchell, Sound Design
- David Cohen, Sound Design
- Sean Price, Sound Design
- Jake Baruch, Product ideation & brainstorming
- Michael Sutherland, Primary LEAP Motion liason
- Jennah Delp, My amazing and supportive wife
This project relies heavily on the amazing C++ framework JUCE.
AirBeats Tutorial Video
AirHarp Early Prototype
The original AirHarp code is also on GitHub.