Lemur Beta 2.0

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:32 pm

Nick the Zombie wrote:Pretty astounding stuff. My wallet would come to life and shank me in my sleep if I bought one, though.

ze2be wrote:Well, just for the pimping aspect of it

Try to tell that to his evil wallet

sans soleil · Post by **sans soleil** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:37 pm

ya...i have to mention touchOSC for the itouch/iphone...kind of like having a 1/4 lemur for 4 bucks.

http://hexler.net/touchosc

i use it thru osculator and it's amazing.

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:59 pm

sans soleil wrote:ya...i have to mention touchOSC for the itouch/iphone...kind of like having a 1/4 lemur for 4 bucks.

http://hexler.net/touchosc

i use it thru osculator and it's amazing.

DAMN! You gotta tell me where you got your iphone for 4 bucks...

(yes I do know about contracts where the first payment is 1€/$, calculate the total please)

sans soleil · Post by **sans soleil** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:20 pm

nbinder wrote: DAMN! You gotta tell me where you got your iphone for 4 bucks...

ya...assuming you already have one of those things, of course.
(actually i didn't pay for mine (itouch)...i got it as a back-to-school promotional thingie when my wife got her new macbook...mneh)

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:07 pm

sans soleil wrote:ya...i have to mention touchOSC for the itouch/iphone...kind of like having a 1/4 lemur for 4 bucks.

I'm glad that you can tell yourself this and be happy...

I've been doing custom Lemur setups for people for a while now, and for me (and I reckon my clients as well) the benefit of using the Lemur with our setups is that it transforms so well into whatever you have programmed for it, be it clip launching capabilities well in excess of the MonoDeckII, weird sequencing setups (of which I have done... far too many, hehe ) or just really tailored midi environments. Nothing out there comes close to that, I reckon the closest thing possible would be the monome, but I wouldn't want to control the effects for my shows with a monome. YMMV.

The physicality of the Lemur is great, in fact many people don't see that on youtube videos, but it's actually a fantastically tactile experience working on the Lemur - drawing sequences into a Pad array with a sweep of your hand, or flicking Multiballs across the screen isn't "not tactile", it's the opposite. It doesn't transmit a mechanical "click" into your finger when you program your beats, but honestly that would be terribly annoying if it did!

gah, I hope this helps a bit at least.
Andreas
btw, ze2be, I have a new (old) video on youtube of me doing some live looping with my man Esben. I thought you might like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhqcRXLnnvQ
a.

Nick the Zombie · Post by **Nick the Zombie** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:21 pm

Machinate, that video is fucking SICK. Definitely on my favorites list, and will be linking to it from my blog. That little drop you do at 1:19 with the low pitch growl effect (I imagine some kind of delay?) was quite well timed.

- Nick

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:22 pm

As I already told you I love the song... so amazing.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:24 pm

cheers guys - I'm waiting on some much newer video with more subdued and errie content from Esben too. Hopefully I'll have it online in a couple of weeks once I chew my way through the 30 gigs of HD!

Nick the Zombie · Post by **Nick the Zombie** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:26 pm

Machinate wrote:cheers guys - I'm waiting on some much newer video with more subdued and errie content from Esben too. Hopefully I'll have it online in a couple of weeks once I chew my way through the 30 gigs of HD!

Looking forward to it! It's pretty clear that you guys work really well with one another.

nbinder · Post by **nbinder** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:31 pm

And let us know about any album releases.... (I didn't miss that, did I?)
(can't afford to get you guys here)

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:31 am

Machinate wrote:cheers guys - I'm waiting on some much newer video with more subdued and errie content from Esben too. Hopefully I'll have it online in a couple of weeks once I chew my way through the 30 gigs of HD!

You're just the bees knees of programming, but I'm sure you already know that. Have you ever done a lemur layout for Tracktor? That's really becoming my DJ software of choice, especially with the Pro version, but none of the current hardware controllers seem to cover everything you would need for a 4 deck layout.

I love Esben's stuff. In fact it's the only stuff to date that I stole from myspace using soundflower cause the man doesn't sell his tracks. Very cool and humble guy too.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:29 am

beats me wrote:Have you ever done a lemur layout for Tracktor? That's really becoming my DJ software of choice, especially with the Pro version, but none of the current hardware controllers seem to cover everything you would need for a 4 deck layout.

DJ Kabuki, wonderful drum and bass dj, uses a 4-deck lemur layout, which is also available on the JazzMutant website, IIRC. He had done a lot of work with it, really intelligent layout and mapping, etc. I don't use Traktor, so I can't say, but who knows, I may be getting into Serato once that Ableton thing happens, hehe.

beats me wrote:I love Esben's stuff. In fact it's the only stuff to date that I stole from myspace using soundflower cause the man doesn't sell his tracks. Very cool and humble guy too.

Indeed, and a great friend to boot. Make sure to steal the tracks off his personal website too, he has a bunch of pre-master things there as well.

http://esbenschack.com/blog/

- I'm the biggest fan of It's No Use. That track makes me grin for some reason.

ze2be · Post by **ze2be** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:40 am

Machinate wrote: btw, ze2be, I have a new (old) video on youtube of me doing some live looping with my man Esben. I thought you might like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhqcRXLnnvQ
a.

Tight!

You got it there, keep on working with that guy

holiday · Post by **holiday** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:04 pm

[quote="Lo-Fi Massahkah"][quote="holiday"]
do you do specialization performances with that set up?[/quote]

I do special performances in my home studio.

I'm more of a hobbyist geek than a performer.

.m[/quote]

I actually mean to right "Spacialization," not specialization. Typo. You were saying you use Max MSP/Jitter in conjunction with the Lemur? Is that right? I am really interested in that process.

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:04 pm

holiday wrote:You were saying you use Max MSP/Jitter in conjunction with the Lemur? Is that right? I am really interested in that process.

I am a rookie doing some sequencer stuff. What do you wanna know?

.m