Play MIDI
with your bare hands.
Your webcam becomes a MIDI instrument. Theremin mode for expressive single-note play, or Poly Pads with 12 floating AR keys and finger-curl detection for polyphony. No gloves, no sensors.
Your webcam becomes a MIDI instrument. Theremin mode for expressive single-note play, or Poly Pads with 12 floating AR keys and finger-curl detection for polyphony. No gloves, no sensors.
No gloves, no rings, no hardware between you and the sound. Sleight publishes a standard CoreMIDI source named Sleight, so it plugs into Logic, Ableton, MainStage, or anything else that speaks MIDI.
Move your hand horizontally to slide along a two-octave scale. Pitch bends continuously. Left hand controls volume, pinch plays the note.
Floating pads appear over your camera view with note labels. Hover a pad, curl your finger to press it. Play up to 4 notes at once across index, middle, ring, and little fingers.
When Logic or any DAW is open, Sleight's built-in synth silences itself automatically. MIDI keeps flowing. You hear only your DAW's instruments.
Minor pentatonic, major, minor, chromatic, or free scale. Vibrato via hand oscillation. Velocity from pinch tightness. It sounds musical even when you improvise.
When Poly Pads is selected, 12 semi-transparent pads float over the camera preview in a grid. Each pad shows its note name (C4, Eb4, F4, etc.) computed from your chosen scale, root, and octave. Pads highlight blue when hovered and brighten when pressed. Adjustable from 4 to 16 pads.
Sleight shows up in your DAW as a plain MIDI input. Route it to a synth in Logic, a pad in Ableton, or your own instrument. Supports MIDI 2.0 (UMP) with 16-bit velocity and 32-bit per-note pitch bend, MPE with per-channel expression, or classic MIDI 1.1. Practice mode keeps MIDI silent while you learn the gestures.
Download the disk image, drag Sleight to Applications, and raise a hand. Signed and notarized, so Gatekeeper stays happy.