Air by ReceptionAudio

ReceptionAudio

A commercial macOS instrument for hybrid, film, and game composers.

Air by ReceptionAudio is built around one question: how can programming tempo feel like conducting? You conduct a MIDI cue live with a mouse or trackpad, Air plays it into your DAW, and the performance comes out as a tempo map. It's an evolution of the original idea I had in 2014 with Air Conductor.

Air builds on more than 10 years of work in real-time conducting and beat-following algorithms, including research cited by the University of Technology Sydney.

  • macOS
  • MIDI
  • Real-time tempo
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Diagram: a tap on the trackpad sets the pulse, Air turns it into a tempo curve, and MIDI fans out across channels to the DAW