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Hybrid
Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.
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JazzMutant’s Lemur is clearly the most enhanced and innovative controller device ever created for musicians, sound designers and sound engineers, composers, video and multi-media artists, DJs and show control operators. Innovative concept, unique and pioneering multitouch sensor technology, multi target networking plus high performance value combined with ease of use are some but few features that place this next-generation controller in a league of its own.
Innovative Modular Concept
The Lemur is a top of the range control surface that breaks from the prior art on several grounds: first and foremost, let's say that its major innovation consists in its brilliant modular graphic interface concept. Its palette of configurable graphic objects enables you to design made-to-measure interfaces. This endows the Lemur with the unique capacity to adapt its behavior according to the application you are controlling: sequencers, modular synthesizers, virtual instruments, VJ software, 3Danimation tools and light control interfaces.
Pioneering Technology
The Lemur's pioneering concept relies on JazzMutant's unique patented multitouch technology. While conventional mice, touchscreens and tablets are limited to single contact points, the Lemur's multi-touch capacity makes it possible for you to use all your ten fingertips to accurately control multiple user-interface objects at once. No sooner have you laid your hands on it than the Lemur appeals to you straight away, as you cannot be but impressed by its amazing responsiveness.
High Performances and Full Compatibility
The Lemur is provided with a built-in fast ethernet interface, allowing connection to a single computer or to a whole network. The Lemur can send and receive all types of MIDI data, offering out-of-the-box compatibility with any MIDI software. Moreover, it is one of the first hardware controllers that complies with OpenSoundControl (OSC) protocol, an emerging network-based standard for controllers that has numerous advantages over MIDI: low latency, higher data capacity, 32-bit numerical precision and easy configurability. Supported by a constantly growing number of applications, this protocol opens a new era in the field of real-time control and human-machine interfaces.
Ease of Use
The Lemur is also surprisingly easy to use. Not only is it the most powerful multi-purpose controller available on the market, but it is by far the easiest to set up, thanks to its user-friendly cross-platform software editor. Still, beyond this surface simplicity, the Lemur conceals a great number of advanced features that hold the promise of an ever-widening field of exploration possibilities.
Make it Fit You
The controller paradigm introduced by the Lemur brings modularity to a whole new level. Make the Lemur fit you, it fits your gear out of the box.
The Interfaces of Your Liking
The Lemur is the first controller ever to enable you to design the appropriate interface that will precisely fit your needs, fit your hands and your idea of how a controller should work. At last, you can create your own layout, using whatever you need for the software you wish to control. For that purpose, the Lemur comes with a user-friendly interface editor running on your choice of MacOSX or Windows. It gives you access to a whole palette of fancy objects that you just have to drag and drop into an exact simulation of the Lemur's screen. You can move, copy-and-paste, resize them the way it suits you, or even change their appearance. Now is the Lemur screen already full? It is no problem. You can create a new interface. The great advantage lies in that the previous interface is still available. You just have to page Up and Down buttons above the display to flip through your pre-defined interface layouts. You can therefore deal with several working interfaces at the same time, moving faders on one while drumming with pads on another!
The Objects of Your Desire
Let's have a glance at the widget library: there you will find an essential collection of standard user interface objects (pads, switches, vertical and horizontal faders, knobs, LEDs and digital displays, signal scopes) that will enable you to advantageously replace any type of known control device. You will then discover a set of extremely powerful objects such as the MultiSlider, the Multiball as well as the RingArea.
Besides the fact they have the power to control a vast number of parameters at once, these objects present physical properties and realistic behaviors that you can configure at any time even while performing, so that on-screen objects will resist and respond to your motions. With subtler settings, the results mimic real-world objects. With dramatic settings, the objects take on a life of their own. Items can either stay where you drag them, or slide away from your finger as if on ice. These properties can be set up by user-defined arbitrary values at editing time. They might as well be remote-controlled in real-time either by lemur-based objects or by messages coming from an application.
A Part of Your World
The Lemur communicates with your environment in the most flexible and effective manner. Its fast-ethernet interface ensures a data flow hundreds of times faster than your average MIDI interfaces. Although the Lemur is not a MIDI device, it can behave like one: JazzEditor handles MIDI communication with your software and can even remote-control any MIDI device connected to your computer. This way, a single interface is enough for you to control the track levels of your sequencer with one hand while playing your hardware sampler with the other. You may also connect one or several Lemurs on a local area network and thus control tremendously complex real-time media systems. OpenSoundControl makes it easy to lemurize a whole cluster of computers on the one hand, and to control one single application through a horde of Lemurs on the other.
The Lemur in Action
The Lemur is an all-in-one controller. Thanks to its great versatility, it will quickly become an inseparable companion, whether in the studio or on stage.
The Lemur in the Studio
Mastering Your Digital Audio Workstation
Be it Cubase(tm), Protools(tm), Nuendo(tm), Logic(tm), Sonar(tm) or Digital Performer(tm), the Lemur is the perfect match for any multi-track sequencer you may use in your studio. It is the only laptop-sized control surface to offer a whole set of features that is primarily characteristic of those unaffordable bulky mixing decks. This particularity is highly enjoyable since it gives you the freedom to fully optimize your workspace. For instance, you can have on one page both transport functions and the master level at hand. You might also consider controlling track levels with faders on a second one, while using various bi-dimensional graphical objects to precisely and intuitively pan sources in a 5.1 surround system on a third interface. Relying on the two-ways MIDI communication, you'll be able to automate and retouch your mix as much as you like - touching any widget gives control over it again. Ultimately, you can still display the software MIDI data on LEDs or digital monitors too.
Mastering Plugins and Virtual Instruments
The Lemur discloses even more aspects of its talent when it comes to controlling effects or virtual synths. Thanks to an easy mapping interface system, you will find it easy to interface whatever plugin, from the easiest synth to the most advanced effects. You can rely on the Lemur's mathematical expressions parser and build complex control modules, as well as morph between several presets. Face the great variety of the Lemur's objects physical behavior and you will hear your virtual instruments play in a way you would have never suspected. Dig into the templates that come along with the Lemur and all remaining doubt will definitely be swept away: you will very quickly pull unheard tones out of your old-style synthesizers, rejuvenating your virtual vintage organs and analog gear emulators. Moreover, thanks to its internal clock and time-dependant functions, the Lemur is able to generate any kind of envelopes and LFOs. It harmonizes, generates arpeggios along with astounding rhythmical patterns and melodies. The Lemur also turns out to be an extremely qualified tool for composition, sound design and post-production.
The Lemur on Stage
A Performer’s Best Friend
The Lemur has been specially designed to fit stage purposes. Fully modular by nature, the Lemur reveals itself as the particularly coveted pet that powerful performance applications such as Reaktor, Max/MSP, Audiomulch, SuperCollider, Pure Data or Bidule have been awaiting for a while. With most of that software being natively OSC compliant, you will fully benefit from the Lemur's great versatility. With the slide of one finger you can tweak the 32 bands of a vocoder. You can also intuitively control the most complex polyphonic granular synthesizer just by stroking a Multiball, or even generate crazy rhythmical patterns through the use of the MultiSlider. Exploring the physical properties of the RingArea also amounts to be a lot of fun. By combining it with a drone generator, you can obtain unprecedented organic sound textures.
The Lemur is also a priceless companion when associated to loop-based sequencers such as Ableton Live: have a blast triggering clips with switches, grouping several tracks together if you wish, controlling filters with bi-dimensional objects, generating any type of LFO for effect auto-driving.
Primat Deejaying Pet
Has there ever been any DJ who has not fantasized about building his own personal mixer? When associated with, for instance, NI Traktor DJ studio, the Lemur dramatically increases the number of options in terms of virtual Deejaying. You have total control over the way you wish to set and resize faders and buttons. In other words, you can design the whole interface according to your specific vibe. Relax and let yourself be driven through its own little world: if you are willing to experiment further with the advanced functions of the Lemur, your mighty primat will reveal to you a whole bunch of unsuspected strategies that you can resort to when scratching, controlling filters and effects, shifting pitch, managing cues. The sky's the limit.
The Lemur and Visual Arts
While the Lemur was primarily designed to meet music players' needs, it has nonetheless been immediately adopted by a constantly growing number of video artists, light control engineers and graphic animation alchemists. And for a very good reason! The Lemur overpowers any existing video control surface, considering it offers, among others, a unique palette of bi-dimensional objects that you will find ideally convenient to move masks, resize clips, rotate 3D models or even fade various layers.
The various objects' realistic physics will spare you the trouble of racking your brains with odd algorithms for achieving lively and organic motions and effects. The MIDI Learn function of software such as Arkaos VJ or Vidvox GridPro makes it disconcertingly easy for them to integrate into the Lemur. Just click on the parameter you are planning to assign and move whatever graphic object on the Lemur: it is ready to go.
Being OSC compliant, the Lemur is maximized to interact with programs and installations based on Modul8, Jitter, Flash, Isadora, Director or Processing. If your project requires to have several of those software running on different computers at the same time, proceed to acquire a cheap router, whisper sweet nothings in your Lemur's ear and it will take charge of everything! You will be able to address private messages to each computer individually and in the mean time synchronize them all by sending broadcast messages. Last but not least, connect a MIDI remote-controlled video merger to one of your computers and the Lemur can mix your various video streams and dispatch them on numerous screens.
The Lemur will also raise your light show control system to the uppermost. Hence it is possible to format MIDI Show Control messages so as to master a lighting console. Controlling transitions between scenes, rotating orbital heads and digital lights in the most intuitive manner are some but few actions that let you figure out what the Lemur can achieve.
JazzMutant's latest update to the Lemur is one giant step in the realm of controlling coolness. From importing fully-packed modules to designing interfaces from scratch, from MIDI assignment to live automation display, the features of Lemur v1.5 make it a breeze to achieve mind-boggling controlling interfaces that will open a world of possibilities.
Revamped Editor
Designing interfaces for the Lemur has never been easier. Version 1.5 features a highly improved JazzEditor, that provides a more efficient way to design your personal interfaces and lets you easily route your control data - MIDI and OSC - to your applications. Customizable window tabs allow you to keep your editor environment well organized.
Group objects, align, change properties, map to a whole range of MIDI messages - not only does the Lemur give you exceptional possibilities, it also comes with the tools to do things in a snap.
The MIDI and OSC tabs let you assign an object or a variable to an existing OSC or MIDI target from a single click. Mapping a Multiball to a couple of MIDI Control Changes is now just a matter of seconds! The Custom MIDI object gives you even more options to allow for complex MIDI mapping involving several objects' states.
Templates and Modules
The Lemur comes bundled with full-featured interfaces to control DAWs, MIDI synthesizers or VJ software. As always, modularity is the key word here, so you can reorganize, remap or expand on these works as you see fit.
With the Lemur v1.5 comes the concept of reusability: you no longer have to design all your interfaces from scratch. The Import/Export feature lets you store your favorite interface components and reuse them in other contexts. With a single click, you can import and reuse that crazy MIDI keyboard you designed for a project months ago. The online User Area lets registered users share and discuss Lemur modules or whole projects, increasing productivity in interface design a great deal.
Modules can be comprised of a single object, or a complex ensemble of objects and variables interacting with each other and neatly packed inside the Container object.
Ins and Outs
Lemur v1.5 can now be remote-controlled via MIDI in addition to OSC. This allows you to emulate any control surface protocol, and keep your Lemur's state up-to-date with your host software.
Record a mix of your song from the Lemur, and play it back to see the automation data on the Lemur's screen. With the Lemur, you're not limited to vertical motorized faders: every single object can be controlled from external input, from alphanumeric monitors to 2D areas and graphical scopes!
More Objects
For your controlling pleasure, we've expanded the Lemur's object list with some cool additions. Along the utility Container object that enables nesting of objects through unlimited levels of hierarchy, you'll find the Knob object, coming in two flavors: one Classic mode constrained between zero and one, and one convenient Endless mode that comes in handy for DAW plug-in selection or Jog wheel control.
Speaking of DAWs, the anticipated surfaceLCD object emulates traditional control surface LCDs, making use of the MIDI input capabilities of the Lemur. This object lets you display track names, parameter changes, timecode, all updated in real-time by your DAW. While your average control surface is limited to one such display, the Lemur modularity lets you populate interfaces with displays, each mapped to different MIDI ports!
Templates designed to control Logic Pro, Cubase and Live are provided in the examples package bundled with Lemur v1.5.
For Control Freaks
Why limit oneself to control a single piece of gear or software from the Lemur? You can now specify up to 8 MIDI In and MIDI Out ports to for the Lemur to communicate with your setup, as well as 8 computer IPs and ports for OSC communication. Each message generating object can be mapped to any pair of MIDI and OSC targets, for tons of possibilities.
MIDI mapping goes way further than simple Notes and Control Changes: make your object send out complex SysEx messages to MIDI gear, increment counters from incoming MIDI clock ticks, or generate your own Lemur clock! OSC messages are now fully customizable too, letting you input any OSC address for objects to adapt smoothly to the software you want to control.
The Lemur’s Features
Hardware Features:
- Multitouch sensing with visual feedback
The lemur's top feature is its unique multi-touch sensor, able to track an unlimited number of fingers at once. This transparent sensor is set on a top of the range industrial-class 12" TFT display. Compared to the average laptop monitors, the Lemur's panel is much brighter, contrasted and it offers a much wider viewing angle. Thus, you can always see what is on display, even under spotlights or in a critical lighting environment.
- Built-in computing resources
The Lemur also embeds an internal CPU, a powerful GPU (graphic processing unit) as well as a FPU (floating point arithmetic unit), which makes it a quite independent pet for your laptop. In other words, since it manages video rendering and other processor-consuming tasks by itself, it will not overload the processor of the computer.
- Robust design
As any electronic device or musical instrument, the Lemur obviously needs to be handled with care. Nevertheless, no worry about that, you can use a Lemur in any situation wherever you are: although it is not unbreakable, it has been designed to comply with industrial product standards and it is robust enough to work in the most critical contexts. Indeed, the whole system is housed in a sleek, robust though lightweight aluminum enclosure. The sensor itself is protected with a vandal-proof coating that resists to scratches and humidity. And since it is glued on a 3mm glass plate, the touchscreen also protects the TFT display from being damaged.
- Fast ethernet connectivity
The Lemur communicates with the host computer using Fast Ethernet connection, thanks to its built-in 100BaseT interface, which means that the Lemur is capable of exchanging thousands of control messages at once with your application. It also means that you can connect numerous computers and Lemurs on a local area network and make all of them party together.
- Instant navigation
The Lemur can deal with a great number of interfaces simultaneously. Thanks to the +/- navigation buttons, you can navigate on-the-fly among those. The Lemur also features an Interface List button that opens a thumbnail gallery displaying all the current interfaces. Thus, you can directly go to the selected interface by touching the corresponding thumbnail. The interface change happens without any latency.
- Fully upgradeable firmware
The Lemur can be fully updated with a new firmware by the user through the LAN interface. A checkout system prevents the system against improper programming.
Object Library:
The object library provides you with a fully customizable range of great control and design elements to create your individual interface.
- Fader
The Fader tracks your finger with a virtual knob and transmits one value corresponding to the position of the knob. The fader can be set horizontally or vertically and resized in both directions. The value as well as its label can be displayed. Other available options include physical model (linear interpolation or mass-spring) and object color.
- MultiBall
The Multiball object assigns each finger to track one of a number of balls in a rectangular space. Balls can either always be visible or only appear when you touch the space. The latter is called ephemeral mode. The multiball supports up to 10 balls and provides 3 parameters for each of those (X, Y and Brightness). Thus, the Multiball object can output up to 30 continuous controls simultaneously! The indices of each ball and the object name can be displayed. The area border color can be adjusted. By balancing the numerous physical properties of this object, you will obtain a wide range of interesting behaviors.
- RingArea
The RingArea is another 2D controller, except that the ball is inside a circular space. Moreover, the ball is linked to at least one attractor, so that it comes back to its point when you release it.
- MultiSlider
The MultiSlider object tracks movement across an array of sliders (up to 64). You can 'wipe' all the faders to a set value with one horizontal gesture. This is pretty hard to do with real or virtual faders. It also includes a gravity mode which allows the MultiSlider to emulate the physics of an object similar to a plucked string anchored at the left and right sides of the array of sliders. Your fingers pluck the string by lifting it up in one or more places. The values of the sliders ramp up to meet your fingers and track them as they move. Lifting your finger(s) from the surface releases the string, and its subsequent behavior is determined by the Tension, Friction, and Height values.
- Pads
The Pads object is a two-dimensional array of buttons that are triggered by touch. They are intended to trigger events instead of represent state, since they eventually return to an 'off' value after you touch them.
- Knob
Coming in endless and classic flavors, the Knob object feels right at home mapped to synth controls, or serving as a rotary selector for plugins and instruments in your favorite DAW.
- SignalScope
The SignalScope displays values of other objects and variables on your Lemur. The 'trace' shows a recent history of the value of what you are monitoring.
- Switches
The Switches object is a two-dimensional array of toggle switches whose values are reversed when you touch them. Switches can be used to represent and transmit one or more on-off states.
- Monitor
The Monitor sends no data when you touch it. Its purpose is to display values from other objects or information sent to the Lemur by your computer.
- SurfaceLCD
The SurfaceLCD object emulates traditional control surfaces' LCD, making use of the MIDI input capabilities of the Lemur. This object lets you display track names, parameter changes, timecode, all updated in real-time by your DAW.
- LEDs
A display object that turns a set of LEDs on and off.
Software Features:
- User-friendly software editor
The Lemur is provided with JazzEditor, a cross platform (Mac/Win) interface builder. This software enables to create interfaces consisting of graphic objects on your computer and to store them in the Lemur. The number of interfaces that can be included in a single project is not limited: it only depends on the number of objects. Indeed, a Lemur project can contain up to 1024 interactive objects and 1024 mathematical expressions.
- Easy and advanced configurability
In addition to the editing features, the JazzEditor also provides a comprehensive hierarchical overview of your project. It also offers a full set of options to customize each object: dimension, shape, appearance, status and behavior.
- Mathematical Expressions
One of the most powerful features of the Lemur is its mathematical expressions system. Thus, you just have to use arithmetical or logical operation to alter the objects' value range or behavior. You can also create as many additional control messages as you need, which can be pretty useful when you want an object to control several items at once. This mathematical expression system features a full set of logical and arithmetic operators, and you can create your own user-defined functions.
- OpenSoundControl compatibility
The lemur is the first control surface to comply with OSC protocol. Thanks to this protocol, the Lemur is capable of:
- sending 32-bit floating point values
- encapsulating up to 256 values within a single message
- controlling several computers at once with broadcast messages
- being controlled back by the application
- MIDI support
JazzEditor also works as an OSC to MIDI messages converter. OSC floating point values that come from the Lemur can be converted into any kind of MIDI datas (note-ons, Control Change, Program Change, MIDI Clock, sysex ... ), and sent out to a physical or virtual MIDI port. Although MIDI protocol is not as flexible and accurate as OSC, it allows the Lemur to be used in conjunction with almost software instruments and sequencers. Additionally, the state of objects on the Lemur can be remote-controlled by all types of MIDI messages.
Technical Features:
- Physical characteristics
- Size: 36.8cm x 29.46cm x 3cm; 14.5" x 11.6" x 1.2"
- Weight: 2.5 kg; 5.5 lbs.
- Display
- Size: 12"
- Resolution: 800x600 pixels
- Type: TFT LCD
- Connectivity:
- Computer interface: Ethernet (100-baseT), OpenSoundControl
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- P3 800 Mhz or greater, 64 MB SD-RAM
- Windows XP SP 2
- CD-Rom Drive
- Ethernet Interface
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- Power G3 or earlier based computer
- CD/DVD drive to install from the provided CD
- MacOS 10.3 (Panther) minimum
- Network Adapter (Ethernet/Wifi/Airport/USB/Firewire)
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