playing ambient/chillout on the jazzmutant lemur

live electronic ambient performance on the jazzmutant lemur controlling 3 synths in ableton live. I talk about what these controls do at the end of the video - mostly it´s about playing midi notes. Shure, with an gear like the lemur you can control also other interesting stuff (as you see in many videos here), but for me even the way i play midinotes changed and i just wanted to show that. Especially the "scalomat", a modul i built. You can download the Scalomat here:
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemuruser_moduledetails.php?id=92&PHPSESSID=3ef...

More music at my homepage: http://www.tonvibration.de

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• jazzmutant
• lemur
• electronic
• ambient
• chillout
• music
• live
• performance
• scalomat
• tonvibration

[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...

[PcRoX123hackedACC]

@sarys73 who doesnt :(

[sarys73]

wow i want one

[ChumpJoe]

awesome. thanks!

[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)

[raizumichin]

It most definetly gives you the tools to become better.

[23fx232323]

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

gonna cach you some :)