The Lemur is a priceless companion when associated to loop-based sequencers such as Ableton Live: enjoy triggering clips with switches, grouping several tracks together, or controlling filters with bi-dimensional objects, generating any type of LFO for effect auto-driving. The Lemur provides you with unmatched satisfaction when it comes to realize your ideas of performance: Touch Your Music.

Fully modular and sturdy by nature, this controller 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 those software being natively OSC compliant, you will completely benefit from the Lemur’s great versatility. With the slide of one finger you can tweak the 3 2 bands of a vocoder. You can also intuitively control the most complex polyphonic granular synthesizer just by stroking a Multiball, or even generate crazy rythmical 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.

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, plus 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 and the many many more of your previously unrealized mixing concepts.

The Lemur discloses even more aspects of its talent when it comes to controlling effects or virtual synths. Thanks to an efficient mapping interface system, you will find it easy to interface whatever plugin, from the most 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 never suspected. Dig into the numerous templates that come along with the Lemur and immediately pull out unheard tones of your old synthesizers, and rejuvenate your virtual vintage organs and analog gear emulators. Thanks to its internal clock and time-dependant functions, the Lemur generates any kind of envelopes and LFOs as well. The Lemur is able to harmonize and create arpeggios along with astounding rythmical patterns and melodies and finally turns out to be an extremely qualified tool for sound design, composition and post-production.

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 under your hands.