playing ambient/chillout on the jazzmutant lemur

[sarys73]

wow i want one

[PcRoX123hackedACC]

@sarys73 who doesnt :(

[kingofska108]

At first I thought this was like a portable reason or something but basically correct me if Im wrong. It's just a super complex controller with all the controllers wrapped into one?

[tonvibration]

You´re right. The Jazzmutant Lemur is just a very flexible controller (Midi/OSC), that allows you to build your own controls.(!)

The sound is generated elsewhere - in your DAW (e.g. Reason, Ableton, Logic, Cubase.....whatever....)

My control templates, presented here, are just examples...

[ChumpJoe]

I still don't get how you get the sounds on there.

[tonvibration]

The Lemur doesn´t make a sound, it is just a controller. Like a light switch, that doesn´t make the light but passes the information (on/off) to the bulb...

The sound comes from virtual Synths in my computer which I control with the Lemur. You can play the same melodies by programming your computer with a mouse, but it will be less intuitive/direct.

Now that the sound is done "virtual" the control becomes free for the first time in music history! Thats the new thing on controllers like this...

[ChumpJoe]

awesome. thanks!

[23fx232323]

very nice stuff toontrack some very good/clever ideas too,

gonna cach you some :)

[aeopmusic]

The lemur looks cool and everything but will it make your music better?

[tonvibration]

Well, don´t know if the Lemur makes my music "better"..... guess not.

But it definitley changed the way i make music and therefore the result. I use more FX-controls and go sometimes deep into parameters i would´nt "explore" without that visual feedback on a programmable touchscreen interface... on the other side building that controls takes time you got less for making music.

So - no - a Lemur doesn´t make you a better "musican"... but you get new ideas of interaction-it"feels"good:-)

[raizumichin]

It most definetly gives you the tools to become better.

[tonvibration]

Yep!

....but on the other side the Lemur is more a tool for tool-building. It is YOU that make the tools (control-templates) out of an empty box. So the tool-building becomes a part of the creative process.

That´s unique on controllers like the Lemur or the Monome..... and Max4Live goes in the same direction - musicans become more and more engineers. (of course there are many geeks who have done so before, but now it becomes mainstream....interesting times we live in)

[dougdmelo]

made me feel peacefull :)

how much does it cost?

[KennYA51]

nice

[Macariotron]

Great job, both technically and musically.

[tonvibration]

wow, thanks :-)

[BrianWilliamGreen]

really nice, ive wanted a lemur for awhile now.

[hungryhippoedwin2]

you make it sound easy.

haha.

great job.

[bboyspaz]

Seriously awesome. Liked it much!

[brainstormoperations]

Not only a nice tune, mate.... but a very VERY good walkthrough with what you did, HOW you did it, and with which control interface, and so on. If this is your first vid as you had mentioned... I am extremely excited to see how you continue to bring me closer in on the Lemur; BEFORE I get one. But learning what to do before from videos like this are very enlightening.

[resomat72]

Nice tune, mate! I like the sound.

Thanks for the tutorial. Hope there will be more.