"Wildwood Lightning is a handmade digital sampler, sequencer and synthesizer designed and produced by Wildwood Soundworks in Penn Valley, California. It provides the following features:
Sampler - record your own samples or use standard WAVE files.
Sequencer - compose on up to 16 channels with channel mute and solo.
Synthesizer - produce polyphonic audio with a sample based synthesizer.
Touch Pads - play notes, select chord and drum patterns and strum with touch sensitive pads.
Display - view notes and channels or navigate menus to select from numerous features.
Multiple Views - create and update your songs using piano roll, song or step views.
Multiple Menus - discover features and create or edit your song with 14 menus.
"More expressive performance can be achieved through various technologies and techniques such as velocity, channel aftertouch (pressure), polyphonic aftertouch, and MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). These features allow compatible synthesizer instruments and controllers to mimic the subtle dynamics of acoustic instruments.
In this video, musician, producer, and sound designer @AndrewLonghurst demonstrates his approach to expressive sound design, showcased through his collection of presets for Ensoniq ESQ-1 by Cherry Audio. He provides demonstrations of each technique using the new Expressive E Osmose CE MIDI controller and discusses his choices for setting up these advanced modulations in a preset.
These techniques can be widely applied to other Cherry Audio virtual instruments. Be sure to check the product feature listings and documentation to determine which instruments specifically support some or all of these methods. Additionally, consult your MIDI controller documentation, as compatibility for channel aftertouch, polyphonic aftertouch, and especially MPE can vary significantly in this evolving market.
"⚡ Roma Modulare 2026 is here! The ultimate Expo in Italy for synthesizers and music production welcomes you to Rome!
Explore 1200 square meters of indoor exhibition space to touch and test synth and pro audio products, enjoy captivating live music, and discover the latest trends and innovations in music tech. Get your tickets now!"
L'Opificio Italiacamp - THE LOCATION | Roma Modulare 2026
"We're warming up the engines for Roma Modulare 2026 at L'Opificio Italiacamp, happening September 18-19!
Let's explore the main exhibition area dedicated to synthesizer and music production. Get ready for an immersive experience with pro audio gear, eurorack setups, and captivating live music, all part of our meticulous event planning."
Press Release follows:
Roma Modulare 2026 announced as international synth and pro audio fair at unique new location in central Rome with early bird tickets already available
ROME, ITALY: organisers of Roma Modulare 2026 are proud to announce that the international synth and pro audio fair in question is to be held on September 18-19, 2026 as an unmissable two-day expo in central Rome, representing a journey into electronic music devices where creativity, passion, and experimentation meet at a unique new location — L’Opificio Italiacamp itself being billed as a centre for culture and education, born out of an urban regeneration project in the Ostiense-Marconi district that is one of the most vibrant areas of the capital city — boasting 900 square metres of exhibition space swarming with leading manufacturers of synthesizers and professional audio gear keen to show their latest wares, while early bird tickets are already available for anyone wishing to attend…
Organisers of Roma Modulare 2026 are on record as collectively stating: 'We live in an age where division is the norm, but making music requires unity. Today, the word ‘unity’ takes on a meaning that can profoundly shake and transform our roots and our habits. We want to continue strengthening the community of artists and creatives, who, together, make a valuable contribution to Italian and international music production everyday.'
"Home Concert 83 - a deep ambient liveset from my studio in Wuppertal.
Bass-heavy textures, slow evolving pads and hypnotic drones performed live with UDO DMNO, Moog Matriarch, Moog Sub37, Sequential Prophet 10, Waldorf Iridium, Virus TI and Expressive E Osmose. Software: Ableton Live 12, Zebra 3, TAL-J-8.
All patches, sounds, sequences and arrangements were made by a (cat assisted) human. No AI tools were used in the creation of the music, video and artwork.
"So I own the original Osmose – bought it used for slightly over 1000 € – and while it's fantastic, sounds very cinematic, dark (see this video [below] • 35 Expressive-E Osmose Presets – Let's Pla... ) and is nothing like any of my other synths … other than does have some problems. Nearly impossible to connect via MPE (especially over a single USB cable), very obscure settings and a sound engine that you need an engineer's degree to even start to understand. So when the CE was announced, I had a question or two 😁
0:00 What the Osmose CE does
7:18 Eagen vs Control-E
11:08 Who is it for?
12:15 Classical Touch
14:13 Price & Availability
14'42" Eagan Updates"
35 Expressive-E Osmose Presets – Let's Play Synths #50
"The Osmose always gives me tons of ideas and it sounds very cinematic. While doodling with it the other day, I was thinking a lot about the game 'Inside'. So here are 35 Osmose presets accompanied by some 'Inside' scenes."
SynthFest France 2026 was held April 17–19. You can find coverage via the SynthFest France label.
"► Thank You 101 Music | 3IS Education | A2D Sounds | ACE | Age Music Belgium | Akai Pro | Alex Nadzharov | Algae | Ambient Memory | Anasounds | Artists & Relationships | Arturia | ASM | Audeze | B4 Distribution | Baloran | Down the Patches | BEATSURFING | Benoit Widemann | BF Synth | BLEASS | Bitwig Studio | Bjooks | Bll Instruments | Charlotte Dubois | Calm | CIYLab | Heart of Sound | Collision Devices | CSFI | cyma form | DAWless Tools | Drift DJ | EmbodMe | Enjoy Electronics | Entropy & Sons | Eowave | Ewen d'Aviau | Euterpe | Expressive E | Erica Synth | FCPro Audio | France MAO | Frap Tools | Fred's Lab | Fulgur Synthesizer | Forge-TME | Glou-Glou | Haken Audio | Hainbach | Heritage Synthetizers | Hell Modular | HLABS | ITEMM | Ingmar Koch | JC Digital | Diary | Kaona | Kiviak Instruments | Kodamo | KORG | KA pro | KR magazine | L1V3 | Lagoon | The Voice Of The Luthier | Larix-Electro | Leaf Audio | Liquid Sky | Macbeth | MidiBen | Morphor | Musical Entropy | Mvk Synth | Nanopolis | North | Novation | NRSynth | Oberheim | Orbiton | Ohmforce | Paulee Alex Bow | PWM | ph-modular | Polytek | PPG | Pural Modular Synthesizer | Project Home Studio | Pylobolus | RBaudio | Ryme music | Travel Piano | Sequential | SACEM | SACEM University | Schneidersladen | Sonicware | Sp3ctra_ | SSL | Studiologic | Synclavier Music | Silence | SyntTesla | SynthAnatomy | SynthFood | SyntheGrall | SynthR | Synthstrom Audible | Teenage Engineering | Theater of the Fleuriaye | Thingstone | Theresyn | Things | Tom Geffray | Tony T-Steel | TouellSkouarn | UNAC | City of Carquefou | Vintage Synths & CO | Wee Noise Makers | Yamaha | Waldorf Music | Wavesequencer | Woodbrass | Usynth.
► Directed by Maxime Bichon, pictured by Maxime Bichon, Thibaut Charbonnier, with the participation of Gaspard Rouaud, Eva Buffa, Eva Bone Leloup, Penelope Galtier.
► Music ATOEM - Erase Mode, Deep Forest - Ghostly Disco, Dogs & Cables - Shallow Brains, Charlotte Dubois - The Electric Hands, Hainbach - Live from SynthFest 2026 - All rights reserved.
► Acknowledgments to Pierre-Jean Tardiveau / Syntesla and Hans Zimmer.
► Special thanks to all the benefactors, the technical team of the La Fleuriaye de Carquefou Convention Center and the visitors."
"2 hours through FEZ Berlin on the final day of Superbooth 2026. Synths, controllers, AI tools, quick conversations, a few things nobody has on YouTube yet — and Loopy Pro live in the wild."
0:00 Intro 0:56 Neuzeit Instruments — https://www.neuzeit-instruments.com w/ / jan0ritter 6:05 Dato Musical Instruments — https://dato.mu 8:34 True Cuckoo Interview — https://www.truecuckoo.com 10:44 Roland Future Design Lab – Tone Explorer — https://articles.roland.com/tone-expl... 16:15 Roland Future Design Lab – Project LYDIA — https://articles.roland.com/introduci... 23:53 True Cuckoo Live Gig — / truecuckoo 24:09 BoBeats on the Circuits — / @bobeats 25:46 Expressive E Osmose CE — https://www.expressivee.com (played by Tomasz Bura: https://linktr.ee/tomaszbura) 37:50 BLEASS — https://www.bleass.com 48:47 Exquis Controller (Intuitive Instruments) — https://dualo.com/en/exquis/ 1:00:00 Entonal Studio (Node Audio) — https://entonal.studio 1:08:12 Tonebank (Node Audio) — https://node.audio 1:16:39 Mõnai by VOID9 — https://void9.com 1:27:12 Showing Loopy Pro — https://loopypro.com 1:27:51 Microrack — https://microrack.org 1:33:01 El Tigre Soundsystem — / eltigresoundsystem 1:33:58 Nord Electro 7 — https://www.nordkeyboards.com/product... 1:47:00 Zoom LiveTrak L-12 Next — https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/digital-mi... 1:50:29 Zoom LiveTrak L-6 Max — https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/digital-mi... 1:52:40 Focusrite ISA C8X — https://us.focusrite.com/products/isa... 1:55:02 Modular Audio Tools MAT 16X8 — https://www.modularaudiotools.com
"On the Friday of Superbooth 2026, we dropped by the @ExpressiveE booth to chat with Christopher and Tomasz about the all-new Osmose CE controller and the Ctrl-E plugin that comes with it.
The Osmose CE is available now in 49 and 61 key formats!"
"Expressive E talk us through the Osmose CE, a MIDI controller version of the Osmose that comes bundled with an array of MPE-capable software instruments."
"Tomasz Bura, artista de Expressive E, nos presenta en SuperBooth 2026 el Osmose CE: la versión sin motor de síntesis del aclamado Osmose, ahora disponible en 49 y 61 teclas, pensada para llevar toda su expresividad a cualquier DAW, plugin o sintetizador externo.
El Osmose CE conserva exactamente el mismo keybed expresivo del Osmose original, capaz de detectar presión, inclinación, vibrato natural, gestos de pitch y un note-off expresivo que permite moldear cada nota como si se tocara un instrumento acústico.
Lo que verás en la demo:
🎹 Control MPE total: cada tecla responde de forma independiente a la dinámica y al movimiento lateral.
🎵 Pitch bend por tecla: efectos vocales, de violín o de instrumento acústico imposibles en un teclado convencional.
🎛️ Polifonía expresiva: puedes mantener cuatro notas y modular solo una de ellas.
✨ Press Glide: un gesto exclusivo que permite deslizar entre notas usando presión.
🎼 MPE Arpeggiator: patrones donde cada nota mantiene su independencia expresiva.
🔊 Ctrl-e incluido: un ecosistema de sonido expresivo con más de 900 presets que combina motores propios de Expressive E con instrumentos de desarrolladores externos, todos diseñados para reaccionar orgánicamente al teclado sin mapeos previos.
🎚️ Aporta expresividad incluso a plugins y sintetizadores que no soportan MPE.
Tomasz lo utiliza en directo, en estudio, como compositor para cine y publicidad, para música de relajación y como músico de jazz. En sus palabras, este instrumento ha cambiado por completo su lenguaje musical.
Disponible ya en tiendas a 999 € (49 teclas) y 1.199 € (61 teclas)."
"Superbooth 2026 // SNIPPETS // Expressive E // Osmose 61 Keys
A short excerpt of the DEMO.
Superbooth 26
Superbooth 26 from May, 7th - 9th, @ FEZ convention center Wuhlheide, Berlin.
Atmosphere"
1. Introducing Osmose CE — Trailer
2. Osmose CE - The New Generation Of MIDI Controllers
3. Osmose CE — Overview
4. Osmose CE — DAW Control with Ableton Live
5. Osmose CE — DAW Control with Cubase
6. Osmose CE — DAW Control with Logic Pro
Osmose CE // A MIDI Keyboard That Feels Alive // Review & Tutorial
"The Osmose is the polyphonic synthesizer from Expressive E. It has an amazing gesture sensitive keys, sensitivity controls, and much more. A synthesizer that takes musicianship to another level"
"Join me for a keyboard walk-around at NAMM 2026, where I explore some of the most interesting new keyboards, synthesizers, and music technology on the show floor.
In this video, I take a closer look at standout instruments from Spectrasonics, Kurzweil, Expressive E, Nord, Moog, Korg, Mellotron, and more—highlighting what makes each one unique and why keyboard players should care.
Whether you’re a pianist, synth player, composer, or producer, NAMM is where the future of music gear takes shape, and this walk-around gives you a firsthand look at what’s coming next.
