Nimbus turns your webcam into expressive MIDI CC controllers. No gloves. No sensors. No nonsense. Two hands, twelve channels, real-time tracking.
MediaPipe pipeline at 30Hz, full RGB. No calibration, no markers, no gloves. The laptop camera you already own is enough.
Continuous auto-exposure, dynamic crop, optional 720p mode for older machines.
MediaPipe hand landmark detection finds every joint and fingertip per frame. Openness, pinch distance, rotation, snap, and custom gestures are all derived in real time.
One-euro filter, configurable dead-zone, sub-pixel temporal smoothing.
Smoothed CC channels with adjustable response curves, gain, and dead-zone. Right-click any synth knob, wiggle your hand, mapped.
Standard MIDI Learn. Works with Serum, Vital, Massive X, Diva, Pigments and anything else.
Ship with a library of ready-made gesture mappings. Hand openness, height, X position, distance between hands, pinch, and snap — all pre-wired and ready to assign to any parameter.
Record any hand pose or movement, name it, and map it to a CC channel. Choose trigger mode for on/off switches or scale mode for continuous control. Your vocabulary, your rules.
A virtual piano keyboard on the canvas. Curl individual fingers to play notes. Pair with the arp laser for BPM-synced sequences — 16-step sequencer with per-step note assignment via a built-in piano picker.
Six virtual strings on the canvas. One hand picks and strums — pinch like you're holding a pick and sweep up or down across the strings. The other hand shapes chords by signing numbers 1–5, each mapped to a chord from a 12-chord library. Two hands, two roles, one instrument.
Drag sliders and knobs onto the canvas. Grab a slider with a fist grip and slide along the line. Pinch near a knob and twist your wrist to rotate. Each one maps to any CC channel with adjustable range.
“I bought it on a Tuesday and used it on a record by Friday. The latency just isn't there. It feels like the synth is reading my mind — or at least my left hand.
No subscription. No "Pro" tier hiding the good stuff. No upgrade tax in 18 months. Pay once, own it, get every future update for free.
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