LEMUR is a handy and modular touchpanel based controller designed for audio and multimedia real-time applications. Our technology associates multitouch capabilities with visual display. LEMUR is provided with an extensible library of User Interface Objects such as faders, switchs, pads, keyboards, strings, etc. A software editor (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux) allows the user to build easily his own interfaces by dragging and dropping objects on the control area. The JazzMutant software editor also provides advanced tools to map and setup objects and control parameters.
Which means that the Jazzmutant Lemur is a completely software-reconfigurable control surface, finally shedding the single-finger restriction.
All the hard or expensive features to implement in hardware, like backlighting, illuminated buttons, motor-driven faders, two-dimentional proximity positioning, and character or graphical statistics displays become a snap when done in software. Along with a software-driven interface comes the usual near-infinate design, colouring, custom layout options, and save/restore functionality.
Up until now I havn’t seen a device which implements all this in a device with the key element Lumur provides: a Multitouch LCD Panel. This permits, contrary to the common LCD touchscreen paradigm of single-point touches, as many fingers on the display as you want, each tracked independently. Which, as luck would have it, makes it actually usable in a live performance setting when you need to tweak multiple parameters at the same time.
The pad has a native 800 x 600 pixel resolution, and uses the Open Sound Control protocol over a simple 100Mbit Ethernet connection to connect to other hardware. No MIDI support here. Pricing and purchase information will be available in Q1 2005.
According to Marije Baalman who also attended IRCAM’s Resonances
workshop they are considering about 2000 EUR.
It made an appearance in the Linux Audio Blog yesterday.