Star Trek-style Digital Touchpad (Lemur) + Live

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peterkirn
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Star Trek-style Digital Touchpad (Lemur) + Live

Post by peterkirn » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:07 pm

This discussion has come up elsewhere, so thought I'd bring it here to the source . . .

The really, really cool digital touchscreen Lemur is coming:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php ... &Itemid=44

But it uses OSC. My feeling is the best way to do this would be to write a simple Max/MSP patch (if you own it) or Pd (since it's free) to convert to MIDI . . . which might help map to Live more easily anyway.

But hey, while we're at it, you can control Live with this crazy QWERTY keyboard, too -- look out Simpler:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php ... &Itemid=44

Anyone controlling Live with OSC devices?
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Post by fatrabbit » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:15 pm

That looks hot... but for that price no way... obviously it's new, so it'll be expensive... but when it's a lot cheaper or i'm rich, yes please.
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Post by sqook » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:59 pm

Seems like it'd be easier just to buy a touchscreen and run live from that..
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Post by hugolp » Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:10 pm

2000 euros thats just ridicolous! Thats just a toy for the rich now.

Hugo
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Post by hoffman2k » Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:16 pm

Plogue bidule supports osc now. maybe usefull for some stuff, but this lemur thing is way to expensive.
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Post by Lo-Fi Massahkah » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:05 pm

sqook wrote:Seems like it'd be easier just to buy a touchscreen and run live from that..
Expensive - yes! But a touchscreen usually can't deal with you operating several controls at once since it works like a mouse(driver)...
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actually

Post by deepdirtydub » Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:47 am

the lemur is designed with a special touchscreen that can "pickup" or "sense" multiple points on the screen ... basically allowing you to do many things at once .. check out the videos of the unit in use there is a guy playing keys on the lemur

hopefully someday these things become cheaper and gain the ability to control midi not to mention if somehow you could allow the audience to see what you are doing with your controls it would add so much to a regular laptop performance.

i cant wait to see what the future has in store for us folks.
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