I fucking love my Lemur (not so much that I wish they fit 'an extra port' or anything) coz it's just what I needed to be able to take my new live setup to Japan. I was dreading trying to keep within my poxy 20kg limit on the baggage with a laptop, 3 midi controllers and possibly other gizmos too.
Enter my new best friend. It's a multi-touch controller which you design your own control layouts which then send MIDI or OSC to the program of your choice via an ethernet cable. People literally drool over it whenever I've used it so far though it's about 5 years old - I just didn't ever have the money to get one. Nice what selling your soul in a 9to5 can get for you in exchange!
This clip doesn't really do justice to either the setups I've built or just how intense it can get playing with one... mainly coz it was shot on a stills camera by a rather drunk friend during a particularly dull first minute of a set with zero monitors to listen to what I was doing:
Me stroking my Lemur in Nagoya from Ronin on Vimeo.
I was initially trying to keep my cool when I bought it in January as if it wasn't working for me I was gonna sell it and cut my losses. Like I said, it works wonders for me though it's bad points are a lack of tactile sumink to grab whilst doing the rave-face and the fact you have to be constantly accurate where you put your fingers. This also means that if you lie it flat on a table you stare down at it the whole time, and it's potentially even more boring for the audience than if I was just staring at me laptop!
