- Price$24.99
- CategoryMusic
- First releasedDecember 7, 2011
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerLiine
- Bundle IDnet.liine.Lemur
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
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Report an issueLemur is the world's best MIDI/OSC controller for iOS. Benefiting from nearly 10 years of development, Lemur is synonymous with multitouch music control. All these major artists can't be wrong: Daft Punk. Björk, Plastikman, CHVRCHES, Glitch Mob, Sub Focus, Max Cooper, Barker & Baumecker, Orbital and many more.
Version 5.0 introduces the incredible new Canvas object and the Sequencer family of features with rock solid timing.
Canvas — Canvas is a brand new object that lets you script custom widgets with full multitouch support. The object is adapted from the HTML5 Canvas element, which means you can design widgets featuring complex shapes, animation, shadows, and transparency The Canvas object opens the door to a completely new Lemur experience, where the appearance and behaviour of objects can be designed to precisely match the demands of your project. Polygons, waveforms, circular objects and infinitely more are all possible with Canvas.
Sequencer — Lemur 5.0 introduces a family of new features for tight sequencing. This includes three new objects: StepNote, StepSwitch and StepSlider. Each of these provides a different flavour of sequencing and is ready to use right out of the box. The objects do the hard work for you, simply add them to your template and they are ready to control your MIDI instruments.
In App Editor — Design your templates on the fly, without a computer in sight. The In-App Editor, available on iPad only, makes multitouch control truly improvisatory by letting you shape your controller the same way you shape sounds. Virtually every function of the desktop editor application is now available through an intuitive system of iOS menus and widgets. Best of all – it’s easier to use than ever. This means a much smaller learning curve and an immediate initial experience. Any basic configuration, such as a typical bank of faders, can now be created with a few familiar taps and gestures. And any factory template can be adjusted quickly to suit your particular needs.
Skins — Lemur features three new skins, in addition to the classic look. Choose the look that fits your style and get inspired.
LiveControl 2 — Experience the ultimate Ableton Live controller, designed in partnership with master designer ST8. Improvise a riff on the Play page, then switch to the Sequencer page to edit the pattern. Choose a key and scale to guide your melodies and use Quick Chord to instantly create harmonies. Use the Modulate page to flawlessly map any parameter from any plugin to the MultiBall object and take advantage of Physics, LFOs and gesture recording. The Launch page gives you everything you would expect from a clip launcher, and more. We even integrated snapshots and morphing.
REQUIREMENT (for the Lemur Daemon): - OS X (Intel only) 10.5+ - Windows (XP SP3 or 7 recommended)
The In App Editor feature is accessible only on iPad devices.
CONNECTIVITY
Simply connect your iPad/iPhone to your laptop over Wi-Fi and make the connection! Lemur also supports CoreMIDI allowing you to use hardware interfaces such as Alesis' iO Dock or the iConnectMIDI or class-compliant USB MIDI interfaces (with a camera connection kit). You can even control up to 8 computers from one iPad with Lemur!
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 13 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7, 2012 | — | — | 45 | $49.99 |
| July 3, 2013 | — | — | 135 | $49.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15Can’t be connected via WiFi on iOS 12, I guess it’s caused by the new network permission system. Lemur never asks me WiFi permission, so it doesn’t have the right to use WiFi.
Hmm, are they really back? I used this for years to control my live performance plugin host, Gig Performer, but support seemed to have disappeared, making me very nervous. Are they really back?
This is probably the most advanced touch screen interface for osc/midi you’ll ever find. My favorite aspect is the ability to script and make customizations that other midi apps like this cannot do. Their website has Lots of libraries to get you started. There is a wonderful Facebook community and new lemur forum to get some help from other users in the community. The editor is not perfect by any means. You’ll be frustrated at times. But they are still better than some of the tools I used to use to make AAA games. Long Live Liine!! Long Live Lemur!!
Just tried using this app again for the 4th time over 6 years. This time the editor will not function if your using an external monitor on your Mac. Cause nobody does that right 🤣 The entire system is buggy and doesn’t have a hint of user friendly or support included. Last update was a year ago and no response from devs on buggy non functioning editor. Had they spent a little time refining this app it could have been awesome and very useful. Could even release new versions for more money. Simple fact is the dev had a good idea 8 years ago and it was a flash in the pan that never went anywhere due to laziness and a lack of caring about the customer experience. Steer clear unless you want to waste hours of your time and need a healthy dose of frustration. My hope is one day someone comes out with a decent control surface app🤪 This guy gets kudos for great ideas that went know where due to lack of follow thru or perhaps they are just lazy 😂
I’ve been using Lemur since 2017 along with Midi Kinetics Lemur Templates, love them. Lemur has usually been pretty stable and a cornerstone of my workflow. However, due to the lack of any kind of update and technical support to deal with new software issues is ABSOLUTELY INSANE. If you don’t already own Lemur I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO NOT BUY IT. I work as a studio tech in LA and over the last year I’ve received numerous complaints from clients about weird issues with lemur on newer macOS’s that have no fix. To anyone at Liine who might read this, please I’m begging you to update your software and to give your costumers technical support.
I love lemur, but this app has not had much love in years. If only this had ableton link support, it would truly be the most powerful controller out there.
I’m still very much loving this app, and I use it quite often on my iPad Pro without many hitches. Although, the major bug I struggle with constantly is when selecting a different page in a template- it doesn’t switch to the page until a second tap on the screen is introduced, which oftentimes messes up another parameter in the selected page. Any chance for an update soon?
But the developer has no problem taking my cash. Cant make the app work without installing the outdated Lemur daemon (Windows7) which you cant get when the download link is broken. Check the developers website before you purchase and you will see that he has abandoned ship.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.