The Lemur came to life through Guillaume Largillier (CEO), Pascal Joguet (CTO) and Julien Olivier (Lead Software and Hardware Architecture). Their common passion for music and technology experimentation started growing in the mid-90′s, when the two were studying electronic music composition at the Bordeaux National Music Conservatory. “At this time, although we had access to digital samplers and synthesizers, the tape recorder was still the corner stone of the Studio – making electronic music was still about cutting, gluing and looping analog tapes.

Lemur’s multi-touch technology makes it possible to use all ten fingertips to accurately control multiple user-interface objects simultaneously.  With Lemur, manage an unlimited number of interfaces for any of your needs; design your own custom interfaces with JazzEditor or download and fine tune ready-made interfaces from the web. Simply said, no other piece of hardware controls sequencers, modular synthesizers, virtual instruments, VJ software, and light control in one single piece of technology. Lemur becomes what you want it to be.

JazzDaemon is a background application running on your host computer that handles MIDI communication between the Lemur and any number of MIDI applications or devices connected to your host computer. This single interface allows you to control the track levels of your sequencer with one hand while playing your hardware sampler or virtual instrument with the other.

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*Update: The Lemur will be discontinued end of 2011