Jazzmutant introduces dexter and announces lemur 1. Cycling 74 updates software for jazzmutant lemur mixonline. Countless artists, from bedroom producers to major stadiumtouring acts use lemur to create and perform. The lemur projects software development philosophy emphasizes stateoftheart accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency. Jazzmutant lemur customizable multitouch controller. Jazzmutant would like to thank all the people involved in this. Lemurs touchscreen interface can be reconfigured in software, can track the positions of many fingertips at once and can transmit either midi or highresolution osc open sound control messages. A the lemur input device is a highly customizable multitouch device from french company jazzmutant, which serves as a controller for musical devices such as synthesizers and mixing consoles, as well as for other media applications such as video performances. Jazzmutant lemur dead did the ipad kill it, or was it. We were enamored with the lemur itself as well as the thoughtful template which we found provided a huge amount of control over the ableton environment. It established a lot of basic paradigms that would appear on other platforms. The true innovation of the lemur lies in its unlimited touch points.
Access templates from top artists and the lemur community. Lemur music is your complete source for double bass and cello instruments, bass bows, strings, amps, pickups, speakers, sheet music, gig bags, accessories for the double bassist at. The lemur app can control dj software, live electronic music performance. The jazzmutant lemur brings the dream a step closer to reality. Note that jazzmutant company does not longer exist and development of the os is now passed to the software house liine, from which you can download all the necessary patches, drivers and software for connection with the computer. The app is well worth checking out and if you can track down the units secondhand they are still damn cool. Jazzmutant decided to stop manufacturing the lemur last year, which left many of us wondering what was to become of the fabulous software that was miles ahead of anything else out there. The touch screens were a bit iffy on those, it was early technology. With the groundbreaking lemur controller jazzmutant have revolutionised the way in which performers can now interact with light, video and sound.
The lemur input device is a highly customizable multitouch device from french company jazzmutant, which serves as a controller for musical devices such as synthesizers and mixing consoles, as well as for other media applications such as video performances. Computing and multitouch technology, being the firstever company. Search engine and data mining applications and clueweb datasets. Installation is a doddle, but be aware that with the arrival of version 1. But the lemur project continued to evolve in the shadow. Lemur software bespoke software developers, hampshire, uk. I modified the bumbalizer template and i am using a custom mixer with clip manipulator. First of all the user community which exceeded our wildest expectations in creating the most amazing templates.
Lemurs multitouch technology makes it possible to use all ten fingertips to accurately control multiple userinterface objects simultaneously. Each target has 16 midi channels with all standard midi messages, so youre total number of bidirectional control messages just on the midi side is over 16,000. Apple should buy this company and bundle it in logic for ipad. The jazzmutant lemur is one of those futuristic pieces of gear that everybodys interested in. Jazzmutant lemur coming to the ipad about time or too. Today jazzmutant has announced the upcoming release of a new firmware for their lemur multitouchscreen controller. Template for user library template cords creamware pro12 asb 8 years ago. For software updates, examples, and other supporting software, visit the jazzmutant web site at. The lemur was retired last year, as adoption of the ipad by musicians reached critical mass. The lemur has 8 output targets, which can each send osc and midi messages to a different program, or sets of programs depending on how your software is set up. Jazzmutants lemur combines both touchsensitivity and a completely.
Jazzmutant lemur reborn as an ipad app first look synthtopia. The four voyager units and two behringer mixers allowed daft. This short tutorial will show you how to connect your lemur device to vvvv via the osc protocol. The lemur offers an unrivalled package of intuitive features beneath a futuristic multitouchsensitive surface, and as result has won fans across the globe including the groundbreaking musicians richie hawtin, bjork and ryuichi sakamoto. Jazzmutant lemur and derivative touchdesigner 077 on vimeo. The lemur device from jazzmutant is a tangible multitouch interface, that allows you to create your own interface and send your data via midi or osc. At the aes 2006 convention in san francisco, cycling 74 demonstrated version 1. Lemur software limited free company information from companies house including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. Stantum technologies has announced that the jazzmutant lemur the gorgeous multitouch music controller is dead heres the text of their announcement since 2002, jazzmutant has been a acknowledged pioneer in the field of creative computing and multitouch technology, being the firstever company to develop and bring to the market a product featuring a multitouch screen as early.
For years ableton users pined for dexter support for live, but jazzmutant clearly had bigger plans. It would seem that competing platforms have evolved and pushed this once groundbreaking multitouch controller out of its niche. The lemurs pioneering concept relies on jazzmutants unique patented multitouch technology. Just a thought having of course never used a jazzmutant. Its a customisable touchscreen interface that can be made to do just about anything. This endows the lemur with the unique and protocol independant capacity to adapt its behavior according to the application you are controlling. Lemur software provides bespoke software solutions to clients in hampshire, across the uk and internationally within europe. For the united states and canada cycling 74 distributor for jazzmutant 379a clementina san francisco, ca 94103 usa. The companys second offering, dexter, follows in the lemurs footsteps. As an audio tool, the lemurs role is equivalent to that of a midi controller in a midi studio setup, except that the lemur uses the open. You can now use one lemur to control more than one application or piece of midi gear at a time, or even a number of applications residing across different computers within your network. When jazzmutant introduced its lemur multitouch graphical control surface, the typical reaction was shock and awe. Lemur software benefits from nearly 10 years of development, and has been finetuned to provide maximum performance on ipad.
Lemur is a professional ios controller app that doesnt cut any corners. Viewing 1 post of 1 total author posts june 14, 2012 at 7. Live performers are no longer limited by a single mouse click that does one task. Technology has evolved very quickly and the lemur hardware development was stopped. Jazzmutant has introduced the dexter daw controllera lemurstyle, multitouch control surface that mimics the look of your daws mixer and lets you control it by touching its user interface on dexters screen. Control dj software, live electronic music performance software, studio.
The eyepopping price was shocking, and the look, feel, and function were awe inspiring. And then i might have spotted something similar in the frontofhouse at flughafen tempelhofs fly bermuda show, for richie hawtin. Jazzmutant provides multitouch controllers for daw, live music and visual media performance. The jazzmutant website highlights v2 software for the hardware, although we assume that hardware is no longer made. With the new version 2 firmware update jazzmutant are taking the lemur to another level of control, flexibility and intuitive operation. Lemur, the professional midi and osc controller app that doesnt cut any corners, has. For a start, its expensive, and it can be complex, too.
The controls borrow heavily from the look pioneered by the jazzmutant lemur controller, shrunk down to a fraction of the size and price. Liine lemur is a multitouch gui programming software for musician originally made by jazzmutant it has finally been ported to the ipad by liine in 2012. Jazzmutants lemur combines both touchsensitivity and a completely customisable interface, to create an entirely new breed of midi controller. Jazzmutant lemur touch screen control surface lemur alto. The lemur owners manual revision of 31 october 2005. A prime example is touchosc, which offers a multitouch control interface in a style similar to the jazzmutant lemur, and is ripe for expansion to the. Any software or hardware that can be controlled by midi or osc can. Home forums digital dj gear jazzmutant lemur for sale this topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 7 years, 10 months ago by phil morse. A selection of different controller objects of varying familiarity can be. How the biggest electronic acts play their music live. Note that this machine is the original jazzmutant lemur, not the ipad version.
The lemur has been made into an app for ios and android by the company liine founded by richie hawtin. In addition, jazzmutant has also announced version 1. From our offices in liphook, hampshire, our software development team focuses on delivering worldclass and bespoke solutions for customers, large and small, in a variety of sectors including automotive, retail, service and leisure activities, to name just a few. At that time, many synthtopia readers wondered why jazzmutant did not port the lemur software to the ipad. The alive 2007 set used ableton live software on custom made supercomputers for the show. The buttons trigger live the big buttons are scene changes, and the little buttons are clips. These days the likes of ipad can deliver much of both the hardware and software functionality although i admit, not yet to the same extent. For example, the indri search engine provides accurate search for large text collections out of the box, and data is stored in an accessible manner to. Jazzmutant lemur a knob is a knob is a knob its one of the first things we learn when we are little babys you can press it, squeeze it, turn it round and sometimes it makes sound autch a fader is different i think on this flat surface lemur. Whether youre connecting over a hardware midi adaptor ios only or over wifi, lemur gets the message across flawlessly.
A template for windows that enables the use of the ableton live api on lemur. The dexter, therefore, came to life ostensibly as a kind of plugandplay solution for several existing software production platforms. A host of new object features allows users to really interact with sound and manipulate it in real time like never before. Minimoog voyager rme units were also implemented for the live performances. Then we went on to griid on the ipad, and now were back to lemur, but on the ipad. With touchosc available for a couple of quid off the app store, together with the projected price of the ipad well under half of a jazzmutant lemur or dexter even for the most expensive model ipad, could the ipad be potential jazzmutant killer.
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