FoxBox 2.0.0

FoxBox 2.0: an instrument for your hands

Curve your hands into a C in front of the camera, and strings of light stretch between your fingertips.

• SAUCE: make sounds with no song. A hand's height picks the note; curl a finger to pluck. Two hands play two notes. Twist to bend, shake for vibrato, point up or down for the octave. Seven sounds, melodies to play along with, and 🎲 for a new one.
• REMIX: load a song and remix it with your hands. Hold a shape for beat-locked FX (TEAROUT, RIDDIM CHOPS, WOBBLE, HALFTIME, SUB DROP, BUILD ROLL), fold a finger to cut its band, and ▶ starts just before the drop.
• Frames: make a frame and the last 4 beats loop inside it, picture and sound. Pinch and hold for a moment to change the effect, and turn both hands over for its flip side. Let go and it shatters.
• The library wheel: hold the shaka 🤙 or press L. Spin with your right index, preview and load with your left hand. It reads a music folder, a Rekordbox XML export or your Serato library.
• Board, Visuals and Record: knobs for the sound or the song, five visuals, and WAV or video takes you can drag into Ableton, Rekordbox or Finder.
• Make it yours: Edit shapes in Hands or Beat FX; pluck sensitivity and a left-handed layout in Settings (in FLOW your left hand plays and your right makes the shapes; the library dial moves to your left index). The GUIDE (G) walks you through it with your own camera.

Looking for STUDIO, VISUALS, MASKS or the voice mask? FoxBox 2.0 is the hands instrument only. The full toolkit stays available as FoxBox 1.5.5. Updating doesn't delete any of your files.

Install: download the DMG (macOS 14+, Apple silicon, a camera). Already on 1.5? FoxBox updates itself in the app. This update is bigger, once: about 180 MB, because FoxBox's engine is replaced with a much smaller one. Later updates are small again.

Free up space (1.x users): FoxBox 2.0 no longer uses 1.x's voice models (Kokoro, Qwen3-TTS, DeepFilterNet, Whisper and the aligner), up to ~12 GB. They're the models--… folders in ~/Library/Application Support/FoxBox/models/hub, and every one except models--mlx-community--demucs-mlx-fp16 (REMIX's stem splitter) is safe to delete.

If the camera stays dark after updating, open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera and turn FoxBox on, or run tccutil reset Camera com.smittytech.foxbox.

The stem splitter's weights are Meta's (Demucs), licensed for scientific use only; FoxBox says so before the download.