SUPERBOOTH 2024: Intuitive Instruments - Exquis Expressive Controller

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"At Superbooth 2024, Serguei from Intuitive Instruments showcased their latest improvements to Exquis *their expressive controller. *Exquis offers pressure, velocity, and positional sensitivity. Since NAMM, Intuitive Instruments has been working on a new firmware that includes improved sensitivity settings and note layouts based on user feedback. Besides the traditional hexagonal layout, they now offer options such as the harmonic table layout for chord playing and microtonal music enthusiasts. Users will soon be able to customize individual key values via the app, expanding the creative possibilities of the instrument.

Exquis is currently available for purchase on their website. offering a versatile performance tool that can be connected via USB, MIDI, or CV for compatibility with various setups. The built-in app acts as a plug-in host, allowing users to load VSTs, save presets, create tracks, and record loops directly from the keyboard.

Exquis Price: 299 Euros

https://dualo.com/en/"

NAMM 2024: Intuitive Instruments - Exquis - Sounds Only

video upload by sonicstate

"Jim Heywood of Earmonkey Music (check them out) gives us a demonstration of the Exquis exploring its key layout and showing off its MPE expressivity.
Exquis Price: 299 USD
https://dualo.com/en/exquis/"

NAMM 2024 - Intuitive Instruments - Exquis

video upload by sonicstate

"Sonic State caught up with Serguei from Intuitive Instruments at NAMM 2024 who showed us their latest innovation, the Exquis MPE Controller. Serguei explains that the Exquis is a highly expressive MIDI controller compatible with various software, synthesizers, and modular setups. The controller features a unique keyboard layout with a patented note arrangement, providing users with an intuitive and logical structure for playing semitones, thirds (major or minor), and scales. Serguei demonstrated the smooth and expressive capabilities of the keyboard, demonstrating pitch bends and expressive play.

Exquis Price 299 USD

https://dualo.com/en/exquis/"

NAMM 2022 - Intuitive Instruments Dualo

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https://dualo.com

See the Dualo label below for more.

Beethoven - Für Elise remix ( DUALO Cover)

Published on Jul 24, 2017 Thoj

"The DUALO brand offered me the possibility to make a video with their Du-Touch instrument.
Hope you'll enjoy it :)"

The Dualo du-touch S Musical Instrument & Controller Coming to Kickstarter

Dualo new du-touch S - du-pass in Paris

Published on Mar 17, 2016 dualoInstrument



You might remember Dualo from previous posts. It looks like it will be making its way to Kickstarter for funding on April 12. The following are some details and pics from their website:

"A playful and intuitive keyboard

The dualo keyboard is based on an unique key layout, where notes that sounds good together -from the harmonic theory point of view- are arranged next to each other.

The dualo keyboard is very quick to master. Thanks to the dualo principle, scales and chords are represented by geometrical patterns, therefore easy to play and learn. Whether you are beginner or musician, it only takes a few minutes to play and improvise.

All-in-one
Controller

116 pressure sensitive pads
3 touchable sliders
3 touchable buttons
3-axis gyro movement sensor

Synthesizer

116 editable sounds
4-preset memory per sound
1 Muti-effect for each track

Multitrack looper

7 simultaneous tracks
58-song memory, 24 loops each
Metronome, quantizer, score player

The instrument-studio mobile and expressive

Dualo merges the pleasure to play music and the easiness of creation in a home-studio into one unique and self-sufficient interface.
Thanks to its ergonomics, the du-touch empower your creativity and your spontaneity. It allows you to play and compose in any musical style, in a matter of seconds, without the use of a computer.


Compact & mobile

With only 28 cm high (11,2 inch) for 1,2 kg (2,6 lb) and a 8-hour battery life in playing mode, the du-touch will follow you everywhere.

Connected and upgradable

Thanks to du-station software, import and export your compositions to your computer and share them with the dualo community.
Update your du-touch software regularly and enjoy new features and new sounds. Soon, you will also be able to create your own sound bank and load your own sounds. And of course, updates are free and always will.

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MESSE 2014: Dualo Unique French Instrument

Published on Mar 12, 2014 sonicstate·755 videos

"MESSE 2014: Dualo Unique French Instrument Two keyboard hex machine records and plays"

See the Dualo channel below for more.

Dualo du-touch, a new musical instrument

Published on Mar 2, 2013 dualoInstrument·19 videos

"Dualo presents du-touch, a new musical instrument. Find out why Cyril Atef (-M-, Bumcello, Congopunk) and Fixi (Java) decide to adopt this instrument.
Want some more ? www.dualo.org"

Dualo showed their instrument at Modularaquare back in October of 2011.

"The dualo principle was invented in 2007. It is an alternative arrangement consisting in putting the notes that sound good together next to each other according to the traditional harmonic theory.

The dualo principle :

makes easier the learning of musical technique : one chord = one shape, two shapes make a scale,
makes the improvisation easier : the keys that sound well together are placed next to each other, speeds up the learning of notation : the notions of chord, scales and degree become geometrical shapes easy to memorize and play, makes practice easier : the fingering for scales and chords are the same in every key, allows great virtuosity : the alternation of both hands and the notes arrangement allow to play very fast and very precisely, makes notes reading easier : the notes on staff lines are played by one hand, the notes on spaces by the other hand..."

Les rencontres Modularsquare - samedi 8 octobre 2011

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Thème du jour : les fabricants Français de synthétiseurs et de contrôleurs MIDI se rassemblent chez Modularsquare

"Avec :

- Dualo
- Da Fact
- Undead Instruments
- Mutable Instruments
- Eowave
- Feeltune
- YuSynth
- Benard Magnaval

Merci à tous d'être passé !

modularsquare.com
twitter.com/Modularsquare
Facebook : cherchez "Modularsquare""

Modular Square to Host French Manufacturer Event in Paris

"October 8, 2011 : Electronic French manufacturers to meet at ModularSquare near Paris / France. [French below]

Revolutionary MIDI controllers, new grooveboxes, home made synths and detonating multi effects... For a few years now, the French have unveiled their know-how in the field of analogue synths and other electronic music instruments. Who are the makers of this new electronic French scene? Do they represent a fresh new generation searching for new sounds and innovative new ways of expression?

Dafact, Dualo, Feeltune, Eowave, Mutable Instruments, OTO Machines, Undead Instruments, Yusynth...

Modularsquare has organized a meeting with these manufacturers and high-level amateurs. This will be a unique opportunity to try new tools and to meet the guys behind the French manufacturer scene.

Meet us Saturday, October, 8th at Modularsquare 2pm-7pm. Free entrance.

Modularsquare.com
- Where : 6 rue Marceau - 94200 – Ivry-sur-Seine (near Paris/France)
- How to come : Métro line 7, station « Pierre et Marie Curie »
- Contact : cyril@modularsquare.com - +33/(0)1 45 15 41 95
- Follow us on Twitter & Facebook

[French:]

Le 8 octobre 2011 : les fabricants de la french touch électronique se
rassemblent chez Modularsquare Contrôleurs MIDI révolutionnaires, groovebox nouvelle génération, synthétiseurs maison, multi- effets dévastateurs... depuis quelques années, des français dévoilent leur savoir-faire en matière de synthés analogiques et de contrôleurs dédiés à la musique électronique. Qui sont ces fabricants de la French touch électronique ? Reflètent-ils une tendance française à la recherche de sons nouveaux et de moyens d'expression innovants?

Dafact, Dualo, Feeltune, Eowave, Mutable Instruments, OTO Machines, Undead Instruments, Yusynth...

Modularsquare vous propose une rencontre inédite avec ces professionnels et ces amateurs de haut niveau. Une occasion unique d'essayer de nouveaux instruments et de faire connaissance avec les acteurs de cette nouvelle vague « Made in France ».

Rendez-vous samedi 8 octobre dans le showroom de Modularsquare à partir de 14h. Entrée libre.

Modularsquare.com
- Adresse : 6 rue Marceau - 94200 - Ivry-sur-Seine
- Pour vous y rendre : Métro ligne 7, descendre à Pierre et Marie Curie
- Horaires : de 14h à 19h
- Contact : cyril@modularsquare.com – 01.45.15.41.95
- Suivez-nous sur Twitter & Facebook"