A custom, Star Trek-style touch screen interface for music? Jazz Mutant’s Lemur sounded improbable when it was first announced last fall. It’s real, though, and shipping from Cycling `74 in the next few weeks at a price that’s a bit more probable for high-end touch tech: US$2500. That’s likely to put Lemur out of reach of garage bands, but multi-touch could be the future for digital music making and computing in general. Traditional touch screens like the cute new Nokia 770 only let you touch one location at a time, making them a minor improvement on a mouse. But the Lemur is as pricey as it is partly because you can touch multiple locations at once. You could even play keyboard on it. My colleague in San Francisco went hands-on with this baby and met its creators last week; other “touching sessions” are coming soon. Verdict: heavy, pricey, but a glimpse of what’s to come.
https://gizmodo.com/jazzmutant-lemur-23452
-Peter Kirn from create digital music regularly checks in with Gizmodo with the latest, oddest, and priciest in music tech.
Hands-on with JazzMutant Lemur [CreateDigitalMusic]
