Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MIDI Hand Controller
Contactless XY‑Pad- Perform gestures to send MIDI
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MIDI Hand Controller launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2025 · nanassound.com · its alternatives →
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Control your MIDI devices using your lips.
2019 · its alternatives →
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gesture.live▲95Play live electronic music with your hands using your webcam
Aug 2026 · gesture.live · its alternatives →
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Phantomy ▲152Hand gesture control for presentations and beyond
2024 · phantomy.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · midipadapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wired. I bought a Roland FP-90X piano partly because it had Bluetooth MIDI. On my Windows 11 PC, pairing succeeded, but my DAW couldn't see the keyboard, and notes I sent from the PC never made the piano sing. After a regrettable number of evenings, I'd separated this into three independent bugs stacked on top of each other. The first one is the famous one: Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI…
May 2026 · its alternatives →
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Easy to use, portable app to play midi music files on all flavours of Microsoft Windows. Brief Background - Used midi playback way back in the days of Windows 95 for some fun and entertaining apps, but as Windows progressed, it seemed their midi support (for Win32 anyway) regressed in both startup speed and reliability. Midi playback used to be near instant on Windows 95, but on later versions of Windows this was delayed to about 5-7 seconds. And reliability became somewhat patchy. This made working with midi a real headache. Cynthia was built to test and enjoy midi music once again. It's…
Nov 2025 · blaizenterprises.com · its alternatives →
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I'm building a video conferencing app designed to facilitate better remote piano lessons. My hope is to solve a lot of the challenges piano tutors and new students deal with when taking lessons through Skype/Zoom. It leverages WebRTC's data transmission to send media, MIDI state, and (eventually) send sheet music files and other musical data. I'm surprised with how well the MVP has worked and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions!
2024 · keyboardconnect.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pawvis▲101Control your Mac via camera & train gestures, local & FOSS
21d ago · pawvis.app · its alternatives →
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Turn Your Game Controller into MIDI
Feb 2026 · pounding.systems · its alternatives →
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An interactive terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback—written in Rust - minimaxir/miditui
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zesture is launching soon.
2020 · zesture.app · its alternatives →
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