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Kinect Hack Turns Your Body Into a Music-Making Machine

23.06.2011
The Kinect is the hacking gift that keeps on giving. Whether it's recreating the Minority Report interface, generating holograms, or just making life a bit more comic, the Kinect has been hacked six ways from Sunday. And yet, the great hacks just keep rolling in. Ryan Chalinor, a programmer at Harmonix Music Systems, , a toolkit that makes it easy for someone to control Ableton Live, Quartz Composer, and MaxMSP using a Kinect.

Inspired by YouTube videos of others using the Kinect to make music (especially ), Chalinor decided to use the experience he had programming Dance Central for the XBox and create a way for people to easily connect the Kinect to tools already used by musicians. He created it as a performance tool for Burning Man, and has now released it as a free software package for other people to use.

If you're interested in giving Synapse a try for yourself, all you need is a Kinect and a copy of one of the programs it works with. It's compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows. For an example of what you can do with Synapse, Quartz Composer and Ableton Live, check out the .

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