{"id":148954,"date":"2025-05-26T19:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=148954"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:10:13","slug":"skapa-sound-intros-air-proximity-midi-cv-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/26\/skapa-sound-intros-air-proximity-midi-cv-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Skapa Sound Intros Air Proximity MIDI\/CV Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-148990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-728x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-728x399.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-320x176.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-547x300.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developer <strong>Gavin Day<\/strong> let us know that he&#8217;s been developing a proximity-based MIDI controller, the <strong>Skapa Sound Air<\/strong>, that&#8217;s designed to provide infra-red gestural control in a beautiful hand-crafted, natural wood housing.<\/p>\n<p>The Air lets you control instruments via both MIDI and CV simultaneously, with clear LED feedback.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-148991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio-728x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio-728x409.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio-534x300.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infra-red proximity detection, enabling you to control the parameters of your synths with a wave of your hand.<\/li>\n<li>LED meter showing your parameter level. Designed to be easy to see, whether in the studio or in a live setting.<\/li>\n<li>Lockable parameter level with a simple hand gesture.<\/li>\n<li>Output to both MIDI and CV simultaneously &#8211; both using 3.5mm mini-jack sockets (MIDI requires mini-jack to 5 pin DIN adapter).<\/li>\n<li>MIDI channel programmable (channels 1 to 16).<\/li>\n<li>MIDI Control Change (CC) setting programmable between 16 values.<\/li>\n<li>CV output range 0V to +5V.<\/li>\n<li>USB powered (USB-C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>Air<\/strong> is currently in development. Details on pricing and availability are to be announced. See the Skapa Sound <a href=\"https:\/\/skapasound.co.uk\/\">site<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air lets you control instruments via both MIDI and CV simultaneously, with clear LED feedback.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/26\/skapa-sound-intros-air-proximity-midi-cv-controller\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skapa Sound Intros Air Proximity MIDI\/CV Controller<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,10],"tags":[4397,30604,35750],"class_list":["post-148954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controllerism","category-midi-controllers","tag-gestural-control","tag-midi-controllers","tag-skapa-sound"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skapa-sound-controller-in-studio.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148993,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148954\/revisions\/148993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}