hand controller · live audio + visuals · macOS

Your hands are the controller

TSR-01 puts a DJ filter, resonance, slip reverse and beat repeat under your fingers. No hardware, just a camera. The visuals it draws are the ones you project.

Download for Mac Try it in the browser How it works

The Mac app is coming soon. The browser demo is live now, and the download link goes to the list first.

// 01  In use

Footage

Live · The Carpet Shop, Peckham
Filter + dist
Live set · projected
On the table
how it works

Two hands.
Ten controls.

Each hand gives you five things to move: the pinch, the wrist turning either way, and where the hand sits, left to right and bottom to top. Send any of them to a built-in effect, or out as MIDI to whatever you already play.

H1five controls
  1. 01Pinchthumb → indexCutoff
  2. 02Rot ‹wrist counter-clockwise
  3. 03Rot ›wrist clockwiseResonance
  4. 04Xleft → right
  5. 05Ybottom → top
H2five controls
  1. 01Pinchthumb → indexFlanger
  2. 02Rot ‹wrist counter-clockwiseSlip reverse
  3. 03Rot ›wrist clockwiseBeat repeat
  4. 04Xleft → right
  5. 05Ybottom → top

Layout it ships with. Every row is a dropdown in the sidebar.

Built-in effects

Cutoff / Resonance / Reverb send / Reverb decay / Delay send / Delay feedback / Delay rate / Flanger depth / Flanger rate / Distortion drive / Distortion tone / Slip reverse / Beat repeat / Scene travel

MIDI

Switch either hand to EXT and its controls go out as MIDI instead, to your DAW, a synth, a pedal board. Nothing is locked to the built-in sound.

Bring your hands together. Fingertips of both hands within reach for 0.8 s fires the next scene in Ableton over OSC. FX land on the next bar.
what's in the box

In the signal path

Your audio plays into TSR.link, TSR-01’s own driver, and comes back out filtered. No plugin, no routing.

16 scene FX

Layers that react to your movement and the camera input. Mirror the screen over HDMI and that is the projection.

Demo sessions

A track and the settings that suit it. Play with no DAW and no interface.

MIDI out

Send MIDI out and control anything else with the same gestures.

Lane routing matrix

Any source to any destination, changed from the sidebar. The default is only a starting point.

Built for the stage

Low latency, smoothing that keeps up with fast hands. Made by a DJ who plays it every week.

what you need
MachineTested on Apple Silicon (M1). It may run on older Macs; we have not checked.
macOS11 Big Sur or newer.
CameraBuilt-in or external. TSR-01 is played with your hands; without one it does nothing.
Ableton LiveOptional. TSR-01 processes any audio input: a mic, an interface, a demo session.

Windows: not yet, a port is in progress. Reach out if you want it, or

numbers
< 0.5ms
audio DSP per block
16–29ms
hand tracking per frame · M1 Pro
2
hands · 5 controls each
16
scene FX layers
get it

Coming soon. when it lands.

Two editions: a free download, and Stage for the performance end of it. One payment, no subscription, no licence keys. Leave an email and you'll get the link on the day. Compare them →

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