{"id":829,"date":"2012-08-18T20:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bebetterstudios.com\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2014-11-03T01:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T06:05:36","slug":"waldorf-micro-q-lemur-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bebetterstudios.com\/blog\/waldorf-micro-q-lemur-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldorf Micro Q control mapping for Liine Lemur"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a busy summer, there’s a lot of exciting things happening at Be Better Studios! Expect some big launches and releases in early fall. In the meantime, I thought I’d take the time to share some stuff about Liine’s wonderful Lemur app for the iPad. I was never one of the lucky ones to have an original Jazz Mutant, but as the old adage goes: “good things come to those who wait”. \u00a0Now-a-days this custom controller environment is available for the iPad at reasonable price of around $50. I picked it up earlier this summer from the Apple app store and in addition to all the great Live and MAX uses, I recently discovered a use for this tool that I don’t see enough people writing about. This is the ability to make custom controller interfaces for your hardware synths that may be lacking in knobs, faders, or buttons.<\/p>\n

Many of you who have been producing synth based electronic music for years, may have a collection of synths that you purchased at a deal, favoring cost savings over buttons and knob ratios. The truth is many of these instruments sound great out of the box with many having presets created by some of the industry’s best sound designer. However; as your own style of music develops, programming your own unique sounds through a little LCD window and a couple knobs can be a great source of frustration, forever preventing you from getting to the bottom of any advanced synth engine that may lay under the hood.<\/p>\n

I had a discussion with another local electronic musician just the other day, and he had suggested that a factor contributing to the sudden renaissance in analog synths might simply be that your typical analog synth is more likely to have 1 knob per function layouts. I would agree with this theory because to me roughly 75% of what makes a good synth is the interface. You will simply get a different sound if you have a friendly programming interface, than if you have to wade through a hundred little LCD screens to make edits to the sound features, or if you are programming a synth with a mouse in your DAW.<\/p>\n

Liine’s Lemur is great solution to adding the missing controls to your hardware synths. Of course, a proper midi specification in your synth will be required and unlike a normal hardware midi controller, the Lemur app will not run out of knobs, faders, switches or buttons. \u00a0In addition to building templates yourself, the Lemur community already has a lot of templates available for free that you can start from. I’ll be making and releasing a few myself and you’ll be able to download them on here the website as they become available or are updated. The first one I have to share is one for the amazing Waldorf Micro Q. \u00a0Programming this instrument through the Lemur interface has breathed an entirely new life into this instrument. I’ve been programming this synth for years, but using this interface has helped me produce sounds I’ve never heard from it before. It makes me wonder how many vintage synths are out there on ebay that this app could bring back to life…<\/p>\n

Here are some screenshots:<\/p>\n\"Waldorf<\/a>\n

\u00a0Master controller page where most performance features are available for tweaking<\/em><\/p>\n\"Waldorf<\/a>\n

Filter page with access to the parameters of both filters and common filter modulators<\/em><\/p>\n\"Micro<\/a>\n

Modulation page where you can control the common modulation sources and the arppegiator<\/em><\/p>\n

Click Here<\/a> to Download Waldorf Micro Q Lemure Template v 0.8 template*.<\/p>\n

Simply open it in your Lemur editor on your PC and transfer the project to your Lemur instance on your iPad app from there. You can connect to your Micro Q via a wireless adhoc via your DAW or a dedicated iPad midi interface. I use the Alesis I\/O dock and connect that directly to the Micro Q, this interface works great and I would highly recommend trying the dock if you haven’t yet already. And that’s it, tweak away! Don’t forget to save your settings on the Micro Q.<\/p>\n

*Please note, that this template is still in progress, although it is highly usable. I’m still working on a better implementation of the drum mapping and the multi-mixer. Feel free to ignore those pages in the template for now, or go ahead and build on them yourself via the Lemur editor. Have fun!<\/p>\n

Additional links:<\/p>\n

Liine’s website:\u00a0http:\/\/liine.net\/en\/products\/lemur\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Waldorf website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.waldorf-music.info\/en.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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