Swoosh
Reach into Swoosh and control your music in a whole new way. The Leap Motion Controller tracks both hands and all ten fingers, so you can play, perform and jam without touching anything.
Overview
Swoosh turns a track into a record you can play in the air. Each song becomes a spinning disc, and every gesture above the controller maps to an effect: move a hand to pan, spread your fingers to shift pitch, tap to cue, rotate to scratch.
The interface tells you what each hand is doing as you do it, so the gestures are learned by playing rather than reading instructions.
A gesture for every effect
Panning, pitch shift, reverb and scratching each have their own colour and on-screen label, so you always know which effect your hands are driving.
Swoosh 1: the effects, each mapped to a hand movement.
Swoosh 2
The second version pulled in your whole iTunes library, gave each track its own deck styled from its artwork, and added a radial menu to move between modes without lowering your hands.
Decks, menus and the library view from Swoosh 2.
Beyond the Mac
Swoosh 2 could send MIDI and OSC, so the same gestures could drive other music software as well as the app itself.
In motion
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