Skoog 2
There is no shortage of weird or strange MIDI controller out there, but I’m very thankful that such things actually exist. I have seen it all, from your traditional controllers with a keyboard layout, to odd shapes and sizes that are meant to be actuated in nontraditional ways. Occasionally there is a design that seems like it would be very useful, such as a cube shaped controller with six sides – but then once you get it in the studio you discover that it is hard to mentally break ourselves from what a controller is supposed to look and feel like. The Skoog 2.0 has perhaps the most fitting name of any odd shaped controller that I’ve seen in a while. It has six sides like a cube and it is mean to be used with two hands. You can wave a single hand over an area to trigger and effect, but you can also squeeze the thing for another type of command. Rarely is anything squeezed on a keyboard or a MIDI controller that we know of. Some say that this type of device would be very useful when trying to activate effects or something with color on an x/y scale. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/11/10/skoog-2-an-accessible-wireless-midi-controller/