Apple Sculpture, Lemur Touchscreen Ripped Off: Visual Comparisons of “Sincerest Form of Flattery”
Separated at birth — or fresh off the photocopier?
In the case of Lemur touchscreen versus Mono Touch, it’s pretty obvious the creator of the Mono Touch software just worked on cloning the exact layout of the Ableton Live template on the Lemur. David Cross points us to this comparison from the Ableton forums, as created by axou:
And speaking of copying, some readers were confused when I said a leaked shot of the “Prologue” synth from Cubase SX4 was … inspired … by Logic Pro’s Sculpture. But, then, I’ve spent a lot of time staring at Sculpture programming sounds. Maybe it’ll help if you see them on the same screen. Note the unique curvature of the raised background, the faux-silver knobs, and the exactly-copied effects switches. The knobs alone I’d say were both copying hardware, but the particulars of the switches and the background are just too specific to be accidental. Then again, after seeing the Mono Touch, I have to give Steinberg credit: at least Prologue is just ripping off individual elements, and admittedly on an entirely different synth, though it’s still … uncanny, shall we say?
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Does that sculture GUI remind anyone else of this:
http://www.penmachine.com/images/word_toolbars.jpg
September 11, 2006 @ 6:02 pm
Kaden
I dunno…I can see a lotta ‘Plex’ in the prologue GUI.
September 11, 2006 @ 6:53 pm
velocipede
Good interface designers create. Great interface designers steal!
September 11, 2006 @ 7:49 pm
Kaden
…which is why there’s such a proliferation of not knobs these days.
September 11, 2006 @ 9:47 pm
Damon
Ya, it’s an approximate imitation. All so see some MOTU MX4. Course, when you are aspiring to (or grouping yer synth with) a synth like Sculpture, you are setting your self up for comparisons. And that means the approximate imitation better got some serous sound. A slow looking car that goes slow is not a let down, but a fast looking car that goes slow, is.
September 12, 2006 @ 2:41 am
groffhibbitz
that is a complete and total copy of the lemur interface. They even copied the buttong a slider colors ans specific placement on the screen from the free ableton lemur template from their website.
September 12, 2006 @ 11:59 am
foosnark
The Mono Touch is a definite clone. The other thing, meh… it looks like half a dozen different plugins to me, and I’ve never used Logic. ::shrug::
September 12, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
kokorozashi
For the record, I was convinced by the previous post’s comments. I wrote before I looked closely. While it is true, as I said, that widgets can be painted realistically in a finite number of ways, these similarities are, as PK said, uncanny.
September 16, 2006 @ 5:34 pm
humpback whale
It seems as though the creator has wised up, as the grossly impractical MonoTouchLive is now being offered for free.
September 16, 2006 @ 11:46 pm
Create Digital Music » Mono Touch Live Lemur Clone Now Free
[...] You can read DJ Grobe’s comments on the original story. Basically, he says he didn’t originally intend to make money off of it and has removed the price. He then goes on to make a very strange argument, that his interface is closer to Tetris than Lemur. That’s just silly; as others have pointed out the button-for-button layout of the Lemur template, down to the color of individual buttons, was translated into his design. You can see for yourself, side by side. But I am happy that he’s making this free. [...]
September 17, 2006 @ 9:31 pm
Lee Ching
After read this article, i ivestigate a little:
“it’s pretty obvious the creator of the Mono Touch software just worked on cloning the exact layout of the Ableton Live template on the Lemur”
Not real, the layout showed in the picture, its riped from this monotouchlive pictures, and created on the lemur.
http://www.jazzmutant.com/download/Examples_V1.5.zip
This file have all templates provided by jazzmutant, included live.
Just download jazzeditor, open the ableton template provided by jazzmutant, and you can see the layout no have any realtion to monotouchlive.
http://www.jazzmutant.com/download/
More here:
http://www.jazzmutant.com/workshop_templateslist.php
Who rip who? : )
That lemur picture its sended from some bad guy :)
Here can see video with lemur and guys form jazzmutant runing another ableton template:
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2901
September 23, 2006 @ 7:25 am
Lee Ching
Some guys not understand the layout showed on the lemur picture, its created, based on the monotouchlive layout…….. from user of lemur called axou.
EXAMPLE:
groffhibbitz
that is a complete and total copy of the lemur interface. They even copied the buttong a slider colors ans specific placement on the screen from the free ableton lemur template from their website.
My final words about this article:
This comparative really sucks and its malintentioned.
September 23, 2006 @ 7:51 am
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