Michael Gill

This may have been covered elsewhere but Synapse seems to be incompatible with Windows 8, and I need to know if there's a new way to get Kinect data into Max 7 on my OS. What I'm trying to do is use hand position data converted into MIDI instructions to control a monophonic synthesizer built in Max, with motion along different axes of the frame controlling different assignable parameters such as pitch, velocity, filter frequency/type, LFO etc.

Would any of you wizards out there care to lend your thoughts as to how I could achieve this? Synapse is four years old, surely there's something else out there now? I'm using Kinect model 1414 for Xbox 360, on Max 7.2.0.

This may have been covered elsewhere but Synapse seems to be incompatible with Windows 8, and I need to know if there's a new way to get Kinect data into Max 7 on my OS. What I'm trying to do is use hand position data converted into MIDI instructions to control a monophonic synthesizer built in Max, with motion along different axes of the frame controlling different assignable parameters such as pitch, velocity, filter frequency/type, LFO etc. 

kinect-motion-data-into-max-7-on-windows-8

Hi. I have two externals for the Kinect that you can use with Max and Windows.

dp.kinect for the original Kinect for Windows 

dp.kinect2 for the 2nd generation Kinect for Windows (XBox One) 

Both of them have trials and include a demo patch. Full wiki and reference doc is line and linked from above.

Hi. I have two externals for the Kinect that you can use with Max and Windows.
dp.kinect for the original Kinect for Windows https://hidale.com/shop/dp-kinect/
dp.kinect2 for the 2nd generation Kinect for Windows (XBox One) https://hidale.com/shop/dp-kinect2/

Kinect motion data into Max 7 on Windows 8