"Meet Imagine a playful world of unknown acoustic sounds
Imagine digs deep inside the body of real-life instruments, modifies, and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.
Thanks to a playful multidimensional approach, Imagine offers texture manipulations, mysterious unknown sound dimensions that still sound familiar.
multidimensional acoustic tones
Imagine digs deep inside the body of real life instruments, modifies and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.
Thanks to a playful multidimensional approach, Imagine offers texture manipulations, mysterious unknown sound dimensions that still sound familiar.
multi-stage envelope generators
For further expressive possibilities, Imagine contains MSEGs that pack a huge collection of modulations for your sounds.
intelligent modulation system
Behind the scenes, everything is optimized to provide you the best expressive experience possible: no dead zones; sensitivity curves and ranges are continuously scaled.
optimized macros
Significant optimization work has been carried out to allow you to modulate the sound of your instruments in real time, resulting in a unique expressive perspective."
Update: the press release, just in, follows with additional details and some spectacular renders of a conceptual hardware version. Before you get to excited, Imagine is software only:
Expressive E and AAS Team Up on the Imagine Software Instrument: A Playful New World of Unknown Acoustic Sounds.
Imagine lets you easily play with a new variety of sounds—acoustic, organic, and alive from the resonant bodies of real-life instruments.
Paris, France, September 9, 2021 — Expressive E’s new Imagine plug-in instrument captures the qualities of different real-life instrument bodies and modifies and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.
Thanks to a playful, multidimensional approach, Imagine allows you to have evolving textures, including several dimensions to explore for each preset. This unique approach produces mysterious, inspiring, unknown sound dimensions from familiar-sounding elements.
Imagine results from an exciting collaboration between Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS)—the foremost pioneer of acoustic physical modeling software instruments — who provides the sound engine — and Expressive E, a company grounded in the mission of improving the way musicians interact with sounds by creating a much more intuitive and powerful music-making experience.
“At the forefront of a new generation of controllers that provide multidimensional expression, Expressive E’s expertise proved to be a perfect match for our physical modeling technology,” says Marc-Pierre Verge, CEO of Applied Acoustics Systems. “They created a flexible and playful interface based around real-time manipulations that allow one to morph between layers of resonating objects. This inspired their sound design team to create a brilliant library of rich organic soundscapes to explore.”
"This Groundbreaking New Expressive E Product Will Be Revealed Soon.
Paris, France, November 13, 2019 — Expressive E and Haken Audio, two leaders in researching the next generation of electronic instruments, announce their unique collaboration in creating a new product to be unveiled soon. This instrument will be available to pre-order on the Expressive E website for a limited-time, introductory price.
After several years of intense research and development, the Expressive E team visited some exceptional artists from around the world to give them hands-on test sessions with the instrument—in secret. Their expert feedback helped mold the finished product.
Haken Audio, maker of the Continuum Fingerboard and ContinuuMini electronic instruments with expressive control surfaces, has never before entered into a collaboration like this one.
The members of the Haken Audio team each have over 25 years of experience working on experimental sound design. Founder Dr. Lippold Haken began work on the Continuum in the early 1980s, and over the past decade has worked with Edmund Eagan on developing the EaganMatrix, a sound engine inspired by modular synthesizers that’s optimized for the three-dimensional finger movements of the Continuum Fingerboard.
"Some sounds from the Osmose. An initial impression of what it sounds like straight out of the box. This will no doubt be making an appearance on my next solo album on DiN records."
"This is different. It's a new journey to embark on. and I love it. Please hang out with me on my first proper sit down with the production model Osmose. I love how expressive you can be with every patch."
"After a perfect storm of COVID and global parts shortages. The Osmose instrument from Expressive E is now shipping to the backers, next step is full production.
The instrument has an incredibly sensitive playing action with a custom keybed combined with the Eagan Matrix - a highly expressive and complex sound engine offering physical modelling, FM and a lot more besides.
We had a visit from Christopher who's the main product guy for the Osmose to show Gaz Williams where this exicting new instrument has got to.
00:00:00 Start
00:01:59 GPU Sponsor Mac Support
00:02:51 Overview
00:06:15 Eagan Matrix
00:09:01 Sounds
00:11:52 Controller?
00:15:42 Pedals
00:17:56 Control Section
00:22:18 Macros
00:25:59 Sensitivty
00:33:12 Portamento and Arp
00:36:49 Percussive voices
00:41:47 MPE
00:45:09 Case and Wrap"
And the press release with pics:
"Expressive E is proud to announce Osmose, the new universal standard for musical expressivity. Osmose is a polyphonic synthesizer that unlocks new ways to control sound and features a powerful sound engine created in collaboration with the leading-edge audio company, Haken Audio.
The conclusion of an epic adventure
Three years ago, Expressive E embarked on an ambitious adventure by opening the pre-orders for their standalone synthesizer, Osmose.
Osmose elevates a playerʼs experience by introducing a new landscape of features for musicians to interact with sound and produce music in new ways. It does this while not only respecting, but also enhancing the playerʼs existing keyboard skills. Every note can be articulated independently with unique expressive possibilities, such as those seen in this Osmose gesture compilation video: https://youtu.be/AA5xe7k4OrM
To achieve that goal, the Expressive E engineers set out to industrialize a new generation of expressive keybed which is at the core of Osmoseʼs playing experience. The biggest challenge was to implement all expressiveness-related technologies into the familiar keybed form factor of the piano that musicians have been using for centuries. Creating a new kind of keybed generated many industrial production obstacles and ultimately required a total symbiosis between DSP and hardware to connect all players to Omoseʼs sound through the use of natural gestures.
Expressive E engineers conducted hundreds of on-field test sessions to fine-tune the complex design of the synthesizer. Artists played a tremendous role in the refinement of Osmose by providing precise feedback about playing sensations and helped shape a new ergonomic tool, relevant for musicians from various music scenes and cultural horizons. Thanks to their support as well as the early adopters and partners, the wait is finally over: Osmose has now started to ship.
First deliveries and re-opening of preorders Expressive E are thrilled to announce the delivery of the first Osmose units to early adopters of the project. The first products had already been delivered in late 2022 and early backersʼ shipments will keep flowing continuously.
Expressive E have thus decided to reopen pre-orders on January 5th 2023 for all musicians interested in purchasing Osmose. The pre-order scheme has been reconducted to allow Expressive E to anticipate demand as efficiently as possible and organize their production schedules accordingly. Despite a tense economical environment driven by inflation, component shortages and the resurgence of epidemics, the company will still commit to guaranteeing a $/€1,799 retail price, within the limits of allocated stocks.
Interested musicians can now pre-order their Osmose on Expressive Eʼs website or through an affiliated dealer. [see the dealers on the right]
A new kind of synthesizer From its inception, Osmose was designed as a solution to connect musicians with electronic instruments more intimately while still retaining the sound-design abilities of modern-day and vintage synthesizers.
Backed by a powerful sound engine made in collaboration with pioneering audio company Haken Audio, Osmose offers more than 500 creativity-boosting presets. Each of them was fine-tuned to offer performance and recording-ready macros. Preset curation covers many musical genres including modern pop, urban, film scoring, electronic music, sound design, and traditional instrumental music. Made to inspire, Osmose offers a playful experience based on familiar features and thus presents a gentle learning curve. It offers the benefits of MPE instruments without the need to relearn the instrument entirely.
From the beginning, Osmose has been a collaborative project with artists from many musical backgrounds. They have been involved in the development of Osmose to make it a musical companion to fit their creative and ergonomic needs. Expressive E celebrates these artist collaborations with the release of a video series recapping the Osmose adventure and the reaction of artists to the new, dynamic, inspiring synthesizer.
Shot in Chennai (India), Paris (France), and Los Angeles (USA), the video series features musicians and producers like Flying Lotus, AR Rahman, Jean-Michel Jarre, Mike Dean, Cory Henry, André Manoukian, and Tarik Azzouz. It shows their approach to musical expression, how they interact with Osmose, and how this new synthesizer has influenced the way they play. A trailer for the series is now available on YouTube.
During Q1 and Q2 2023 Expressive E will regularly release clips focusing on each individual artist from the main trailer video. The first three episodes of the series are now available on YouTube. They feature musical icon A.R. Rahman (Grammy winner and film scorer for 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire), jazz virtuoso J3PO (a prolific solo artist and keyboardist for Marcus Miller), and trap beatmaker veteran Tarik Azzouz (a Grammy winner who has worked with Jay-Z, DJ Khaled, 2 Chainz, and many more)."
"In this series of videos, we explore some of the presets for the Moog Sub 37 that comes with every Touché.
Touché ships with Lié, its companion software. Lié is a host of plug-ins and comes with tailor-made sounds and configurations for a selection of synthesisers, as well as tools to make your own software and hardware presets.
Those hardware presets for Touché are templates that make your experience truly plug-and play with hardware synthesisers from Moog, Dave Smith, Korg, Roland, Nord, Yamaha, Novation, Elektron, Arturia, Waldorf...
For a selection of synths, the hardware presets for Touché are one step further, matching some of their factory presets.
All hardware presets can be saved in Touché's internal memory, in order to use Touché in standalone, without any computer.
"The goal of the Expressive E team is to make the whole experience with Touché even more plug-and-play at each update, to make sure that using Touché is both fun and intuitive.
That’s why Expressive E announces Lié v1.2. This version expands the preset library of Touché both for hardware and software synths, in an effort to provide the user new creative options and new ways to explore the capabilities of Touché’s versatile and precise sensitivity.
The update also brings new features to Lié that will ease even more the process of setting up Touché, creating new sounds and playing with the instrument.
SO WHAT'S NEW ? Expressive E is making a step further with the hardware presets. The new presets are based on the factory presets from a selection of modern synthesisers, and now feature full parameter mapping instead of just CC renaming, making the experience even more plug-and play than before.
Expressive E is adding new third-party plug-ins to the list of software presets for Touché. Already included were Native Instruments Massive, Prism, and Razor, and Lennar Digital Sylenth1. This update brings new presets for Native Instruments Monark, U-He Diva, Reveal Sound Spire, KV331 Synthmaster, and Arturia Mini V, SEM V and ARP 2600.
Touché and Lié ships with a great number of sounds tailor-made from scratch for Touché. With Lié 1.2 Expressive E adds 50 new presets to the list, all ready to be played out of the box with the bundled player UVI Workstation.
New Features of Lié :
Automatic Firmware Update : Prompts the user to upgrade their firmware if Lié detects that the version of Touché is too old. If the user accepts, the process starts immediately, no need to browse for a file or do anything else.
Manual re-calibration : Touché auto-calibrates itself each time it is powered. With Manual calibration, Touché will re-calibrate each time you press and hold the two buttons at the same time until the LEDs stop blinking.
Improved plug-in scan : Prompts the user to scan for plug-ins if the plug-in list is empty when Lié opens. The scanning process is now much more stable.
Other minor improvements : Cancel button added in the preset modification window, toggle on/off for the preset modification window, and bug-fixes.
Expressive E is planning to release an open beta for the Windows version of Lié. Subscribe to the list of beta-testers to get early access to Lié for Windows, and help Expressive E improve it !
Please note that this Windows version of Lié will only be compatible with Windows 10."
You might remember Expressive E's innovative Touché controller introduced last year at NAMM. The last post I had on them was actually back on January 25 of 2016. You might have wondered why they went dark for a bit. Well it appears they were busy making improvements as well as working with UVI.
"At the last NAMM Expressive E announced Touché, a unique instrument with a sensitive and tactile approach of synthesizers. Expressive E took time to refine their offer, and they have several things to announce:
- Lié, a powerful software
- An exiting partnership with UVI
- A brand new website
- Engaging video content
TOUCHÉ
Touché gives you a unique tactile approach of both software and hardware synthesizers, shaping and controlling their sound with a simple pressure of your hands. It feels natural and gives you a powerful connection with music.
Touché controls your synthesizers with four independant shi ings : Two vertical and two lateral shi ings. The four shi ings are extremely precise, reactive and sensitive. This opens up a wide variety of genuine instrumental gestures : progressive slides, subtle vibratos, percussive taps, hand-made LFOs... Each of the four shi ings can be independently mapped to one or several parameters of your synthesisers. To help you with this, Touché ships with Lié, its companion software.
LIÉ
Lié is a powerful software with a simple design. You can launch it inside DAWs supporting VST or AU plug-in formats. When you launch Lié, you can immediately start playing with the factory presets, or build your own sound from scratch.
The Browser shows you the list of the factory presets, as well as those you’ve saved yourself.
The Slot Center is an easy to use slot- based interface, with 8 assignable slots.
Each of the 8 slots allows you to map a parameter from your synthesizer to one of the four shi ings of Touché.
You can then adjust your sensitivity with min/max values and sensitivity curves.
The scope displays the pressure you’re applying on Touché.
You will find these three parts in either software or hardware connection scenarios, with slight
differences :
Playing with software
To control software synthesisers, Lié works as a host of virtual instruments with VST or AU format. Once hosted, you can access the virtual instrument’s interface directly from Lié, and quickly map parameters with Lié’s Speed Mapping features.
You can then save your configuration in a software preset that will appear in the browser.
Playing with hardware
Hardware synthesisers are controlled with Touché’s built-in CV and MIDI ports. Lié lets you configure what Touché sends through its CV and MIDI ports.
When working with MIDI, you can select the CC numbers of your synthesisers that you want to control, and assign them to one of the four shi ings of Touché. To make this workflow even easier, Lié ships with INIT presets for a selection of hardware synthesizers, replacing the CC numbers with the actual names of the parameters instead.
When working with CV, Lié lets you choose the voltages that Touché sends for each CV port individually, on a -10/+10 Volts range.
Hardware configurations can then be saved in a hardware preset that will appear in the browser. You can even flash these presets into Touché’s internal memory, and play with your hardware synth without any computer.
UVI
To fully exploit the instrumental potential of Touché, Expressive E made a partnership with UVI.
UVI was awarded multiple times for their industry-leading instruments, effects and sound libraries. Their flagship instrument, Falcon, is highly respected by some of the world's leading composers, sound designers, musicians and producers.
Expressive E used the powerful sound engine from Falcon to design over 100 exceptional presets. They offer a wide array of sounds, from agressive leads to soft pads, and a rich variety of playstyles.
These sounds will ship standard with every Touché, ready to be used within UVI’s player UVI Workstation.
Here’s a video showing Touché in action with some of the presets they have made:
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2017 Expressive E
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Pre-sales for Touché will open the 01/19/2017 at 10:00 am (PST) on Expressive E’s upcoming new website www.expressivee.com at a price of $399 US."
The new controller with EaganMatrix sound engine from Haken Audio and Expressive E first announced here has arrived.
"Osmose embeds Haken Audio’s unique EaganMatrix sound engine: From virtual analog to FM synthesis, physical modeling and everything in between, never has a synth engine provided so much potential for expressive control. Explore an infinite landscape of incredible acoustic and electronic sounds.
Unlock the true potential of your favourite hardware and software synthesizers when you combine them with the amazing expressive capacity of Osmose. Even if your synthesizer does not respond to polyphonic aftertouch or MPE, Osmose can still control it.
Piano Mode
Osmose is perfectly playable as a classic keyboard controller, sending simple velocity messages.
Poly Aftertouch and Global Pitch Bend
Control your synth with Osmose’s Initial Pressure dimension and with polyphonic aftertouch. Every key can also control the global pitch bend of your synth.
Multichannel, MPE, MPE+
Osmose is fully compatible with the major MIDI protocol addition for polyphonic expression. Use MPE+ for the most advanced and accurate response.
Standalone Configuration
Your MIDI configuration can be set up directly from the in-built screen, without the need to connect to a computer."
Playlist:
Discover Osmose
Discover Osmose I Artist play session
Expressive E - Discovering Osmose with J3PO (prototype unit)
Expressive E - Discovering Osmose with Virtual Riot (prototype unit)
Expressive E - Discovering Osmose with Jordan Rudess (prototype unit)
Using Osmose as MIDI controller
Osmose gestures video (played with a prototype)
"🔥🔥🔥 Discover Expressive E free 🎁 original presets for #NATIVEINSTRUMENTS #MassiveX synthesizer! These presets are available for #Touché and Non-Touché users and can be used with or without Touché. Download link 👉🏼 www.expressivee.com/massive-x
This new 20-preset collection harnesses the advanced sound-design capabilities of Massive X and offers users the next level in articulate playability.
📌You don’t already have a Touché or Touché SE?
Expressive E has released a free synthesizer preset pack that does not only require one of its unique Touché or Touché SE controllers. The deep modular nature of Massive X lets its users interact with its sounds much more expressively than on traditional subtractive synthesizers, making it a perfect candidate for the sound design talents of Expressive E’s team. Their free presets utilize Massive X’s macro controls with multiple parameters per macro, sophisticated programming, so users can immediately shape the sounds in creative ways with the turn of a single control. Even after the initial sound stops—for instance with short pluck or bell sounds—the macros that single control continues to put out volume and timbre changes with no need to re-trigger the note.
🎁 This Massive X 20-preset download is free to anyone who registers an account at Expressive E’s website: www.expressivee.com
Owners of an Expressive E Touché or Touché SE controller will have an even more precise and supremely tactile experience with these sounds. The devices’ four-axis control surface offers the highest degree of touch and pressure sensitivity for both the most subtle and most aggressive parameter changes.
While anyone can open these free presets directly in Massive X, Touché and Touché SE owners can open them Expressive E’s Lié plugin host software. This allows the user to manipulate up to eight of Massive X’s macros at once with a single hand, making rhythmic manipulation of the sounds much more varied and physically intuitive. Each of those Massive X macro controls manipulates multiple parameters, making these synth sounds extraordinarily dynamic when used the Touché or Touché SE.
Touché and Touché SE hardware ships with more than 200 sounds powered by UVI Workstation software. These sounds are custom-designed to perfectly complement the controllers’ four-directional movements. Lié also includes presets for more than 30 popular software and hardware synthesizers from brands such as ARTURIA, KORG, MOOG, NOVATION, ROLAND, UH-E, and others. These free MASSIVE X presets are Expressive E’s latest sound design effort but by no means the last.
They are available now, along with the Touché ($399) and Touché SE ($229), at www.expressivee.com
✏️ presets, 🎶 Music, 🎥 video created by Theo Galienne"
Shot beginning of March 2020 at the Expressive E office, this video is giving a sneak peek at the current state of 8 sounds that our in-house sound designers are programming using the EaganMatrix by Haken Audio, the synth engine that will be internal to Osmose.
Audio recorded at 44,1kHz, 24bit with a Native Instruments Komplete Audio Mk1 without further processing.
While development of the industrialized prototype is going according to plan, the unit shown is still the same prototype unit that appeared in earlier videos. Creating it involved 3d printing techniques as well as manual labour by our engineers, meaning that you can see some irregularities in the keybed. The final, industrialized model will certainly not show such tolerances and will feature a flawless, even keybed
2. Osmose sound design work in progress #2
Shot at the Expressive E office, this video is giving a sneak peek at the current state of 8 sounds that our in-house sound designers are programming using the EaganMatrix by Haken Audio, the synth engine that will be internal to Osmose.
3. Osmose sound design work in progress #3
Shot beginning of March 2020 at the Expressive E office, this video is giving a sneak peek at the current state of new sounds that our in-house sound designers are programming using the EaganMatrix by Haken Audio, the synth engine that will be internal to Osmose.
Audio recorded at 44,1kHz, 24bit with a Native Instruments Komplete Audio Mk1 without further processing.
While the development of the industrialized prototype is going according to plan, the unit shown is still the same prototype unit that appeared in earlier videos. Creating it involved 3d printing techniques as well as manual labor by our engineers, meaning that you can see some irregularities in the keybed. The final, industrialized model will certainly not show such tolerances and will feature a flawless, even keybed, compare the renders on our website: www.expressivee.com/discover-osmose
Credit:
Performed by: The Elements
Video: Samsara prod http://samsaraprod.com/
Expressive E - Discovering Osmose with Junkie XL (prototype unit)
Published on Feb 12, 2020 Expressive E
"Osmose was made by musicians, for musicians. We’ve been on the road asking some of our favorite artists to try our prototypes."
Expressive E - Discovering Osmose with Kaela Sinclair (prototype unit)
Published on Feb 12, 2020 Expressive E
"Osmose was made by musicians, for musicians. We’ve been on the road asking some of our favorite artists to try our prototypes.
'Kaela Sinclair is a singer-songwriter, musician, and producer, based in LA with Florida roots. A classically trained instrumentalist and vocalist, she creates cinematic pop music with a deep and unusual touch. In the last two years she has released two EPs, and is currently working on a full-length album, coming into a mature, but decidedly unconventional sound. Sinclair joined French electronic band M83 in 2016, and within weeks was performing on the main stage at Coachella, gracing the likes of Glastonbury Festival and Jimmy Kimmel as well as touring four continents over the course of a year. Her vocals and arranging can be heard on M83’s latest album, DSVII which came out September of 2019. Sinclair has also spent significant time touring with Australian pop artist Troye Sivan, as a featured singer and synth player.'"
Expressive E - Discovering Osmose with Mike Dean (prototype unit)
Published on Feb 12, 2020 Expressive E
"Osmose was made by musicians, for musicians. We’ve been on the road asking some of our favorite artists to try our prototypes.
Mike Dean is a legendary producer, working with major artists across the American hip hop industry such as Kanye West, 2Pac, Scarface, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, Jay-Z, Nas, Beyoncé & Jay-Z, Madona..."
Playlist:
Noisy 2 - The next-gen MPE synth
Noisy 2 - Hear It in Action
Noisy 2 - Walkthrough Video
Press release follows:
After the successful launch of Osmose, MPE expert company Expressive E continues to expand its sound ecosystem with Noisy 2. Built for expression, Noisy 2 offers a new MPE mode that goes way beyond regular MPE integration. Its workflow was built for intuitive and expressive sound design, unleashing novel playing possibilities. To match its next-gen MPE abilities, Noisy 2 is powered by an outstanding sound engine based on new acoustic and analog resonators. This synth was made to be expressive with any MPE or classic MIDI controller and brings a brand new expressive experience for sound designers and musicians.
Unlocking new playing gestures for MPE users
At the heart of its MPE mode, Noisy 2’s expression blocks offer new playing possibilities for MPE users with trig modes.
Inspired by its Osmose experience, these Trig modes are a new, powerful, and playful way to trigger envelopes: add sound impulses by accelerating your gesture downwards (push), upwards (lift), or alternating up and down (shake) at any point within the key’s travel.
Listen to the new musical possibilities unlocked by Noisy 2’s MPE mode here.
Easy expressive sound design
Noisy 2 has been built to make the expressive sound design experience fun and intuitive.
Its workflow enables musicians and sound designers to intuitively choose their own way of interacting with the sonic dimensions of any preset. With a few clicks on the expression blocks, users can find the perfect balance between Pressure, Aftertouch, and the envelope generator to refine their personal expressive playing experience.
Producers and musicians can now integrate new motions into their projects by sculpting sounds directly with their hands and fingers.
On top of deep MPE integration, Noisy 2 offers various ways to simply and creatively add motion to sounds. With both classic MIDI and MPE controllers, the Expression Control section can now deeply alter each layer of Noisy 2 and its two FX slots with a simple turn of a knob.
Peter Zinovieff talks about modern musical interfaces
Published on Jan 6, 2016 Expressive E
"The inventor of one of the most famous synthesisers of all the time, the VCS3, talks about Expressive E' s new musical interface..."
And some info directly in via a contact at Expressive E:
"I work for a young company named « Expressive E», located in Paris.
We are developing a new kind of musical controller named « Touché » which will be unveiled for the first time at the NAMM SHOW 2016.
Touché, is an innovative controller, a revolution in how you play with software and hardware synthesizers by offering extremely precise and sensitive gesture controls.
Its wood surface was designed to react to the smallest vibration, the slightest pressure of your hand, allowing synth players to shape sounds spontaneously as with an acoustic instrument.
A great number of artists (Adrian Utley (Portishead), John Baggott (Massive Attack, Robert Plant) , Rone, Matt Robertson (Björk), Peter Zinovieff, etc.) already agree on the fantastic potential of this product : Touché appears as a breath of fresh air in the world of MIDI controllers!"
Update: Expressive E will be at NAMM booth #4807 for those attending.
You'll find a PDF of the Media kit here, captured to the left as JPEGs starting with the second image down.
Playlist:
Touché SE : Play, Produce & Perform - Expressive E (music: Arthur Bouflet, produced by Noside)
Presentation: Touché SE from Expressive E - sonicstate
Expressive E Touché SE hates on Dawless™ - Carl Mikael's Cabinet of Curiosities Update: Touche SE Unboxing - Enrique Martinez added to the playlist
"Expressive E, the company behind the innovative and unique expressive instrument Touché, are announcing Touché SE, a refined, USB-only version for software applications.
Touché SE (“Software Edition”) is a new instrument for adding expression, depth and musicality to software synthesizers and plug-ins. It responds to both the lightest and the most intense gestures, giving users immediate, intuitive control of their sounds. Musicians, producers and sound designers can unlock instant, real-time control of multiple parameters at once, creating complex and evolving new sounds using intuitive slides, taps and touches of the Touché SE control surface.
Touché SE shares the same build quality, patented mechanism and sound library as the classic Touché, refined with USB-only connectivity for software applications, and a new polycarbonate touch-plate. Expressive-E have expanded the sound library to include more than 200 factory sounds, pre-mapped to take full advantage of Touché SE’s extensive control capabilities, as well as including more than 200 presets for third-party VST instruments.
Additionally, Touché’s companion software Lié allows users to easily host and unlock the true potential of their third-party VST instrument library. Users can quickly map parameters to the Touché SE interface, creating sounds and performances with an expressive depth they may never have realised their software was capable of.
Touché SE retails at just 229$/€ and is available for orders worldwide starting Monday 17th of September 2018.
KEY FEATURES
- A beautifully engineered hardware control instrument with a patented mechanism, capable of reacting to the slightest touch over multiple simultaneous axes of movement.
- Includes more than 200 professionally designed software instrument sounds, fully mapped and ready to play.
- Control multiple plug-in parameters at once, using intuitive gestures to produce extraordinary shifts in sound.
- Conveniently browse sounds using physical buttons on the hardware.
- Host your own third-party VST plug-in instruments and unlock hidden depths of expression. Over 200 presets for
popular VST software synthesizers are also included.
- Touché SE is USB bus-powered and compatible with both Mac and PC."
"NOISY by Expressive E is here!
To quote Expressive E - "A hybrid between physical modelling and subtractive synthesis, Noisy uses the principles of acoustic resonance to bring life to both electronic and acoustic sounds. Noisy was designed to generate highly playable, multidimensional sounds, whose textures and articulations can be easily combined and manipulated."
Sit back and enjoy as I play through a selection of NOISY's very expressive and diverse patches! As always, feel free to leave a comment below and hit the Subscribe button/turn on notifications to get my latest videos as they're released!
More info on Noisy can be found at the Expressive E website here:
https://www.expressivee.com/61-noisy
- All sounds in this video are coming from NOISY
- All compositions and improvisations in this video are original"
Remember the videos featuring EMS' Peter Zinovieff and various artists discussing the upcoming controller from Expressive E? Here it is. Below is a NAMM floor demo of the unit. Pretty cool device!
Some initial specs:
1 wood skin
4 expression controls with mechanical force feedback & sensibility adjusting
4 CV/Gate Output (3.5mm) with -10V / +10V maximum range
1 MIDI input & 1 MIDI output (3.5mm jack with MIDI adapter)
1 Type B USB port
1 Encoder-pushbutton & 2 buttons
4 Multicolor LEDs
Dimensions : H x W x L = 60 x 102 x 250 mm
Weight : 1kg
And a NAMM floor demonstration:
[NAMM] Expressive E Touché
Published on Jan 22, 2016 Audiofanzine in English
"Here's a demo of Touché by Expressive E at the NAMM Show 2016."
NAMM2016: Touché - The Super Sensitive Expressive Device
"Expressive E is releasing a new bank of presets for its unique expressive instrument, Touché. Named “Mercury”, this expansion is the first of its kind from the company, and widens the range of sonic possibilities ofered by the combination of Touché and Lié, Touché’s companion sofware.
The Mercury expansion adds 80 new presets to Lié, with a strong focus on electronic and dance music genres. Here’s Expressive E own words :
'With Touché and the Mercury expansion, you will explore dance music genres within one gesture. One sound can take you from heavy basses of trap music straight into the realm of electronic dance music’s “taser” leads.
A misty arp can turn into rhythmic synth chords, and a sof pluck can become an aggressive stab, with just a touch of your hands. From Deadmau5 to Major Lazer, from DJ Snake to Avicii, the Mercury expansion takes inspiration in today’s greatest stadium-filling hits.
Our expansions ofer a unique multi-dimensional sound layering, exploiting all the depth of control that Touché puts in your hands. Each preset is carefully designed and finely adjusted to be sensitive to the slightest gesture. It lets you experience a genuine instrumental interaction with your music, shaping its texture intuitively.'
Expressive E says that the presets from the expansion were designed using the renowned UVI Falcon sound engine (which already powers the factory presets included with Lié), and all sounds are playable within UVI’s free sound player Workstation, included in Lié’s installer, or directly within UVI Falcon.
You can purchase the new Mercury Expansion on their website, with a retail price of 39,99€ / 39,99$ : http://www.expressivee.com/mercury"
Expressive E gives us a quick tour of the Osmose 49-Key Synthesizer & MPE MIDI Controller at the 2023 NAMM show.
Expressive E Osmose is the new standard for musical expressivity. Use intuitive gestures to control this standalone synthesizer and upgrade your playing and production skills. Press, bend, shake, strum and more to interact with keyboards and electronic sounds in a new, organic way. Whether you're a veteran keyboardist, a workflow-oriented producer, a daring sound designer or anything in between, Osmose will take your musical journey to uncharted places.
Get more for your money with an exclusive Osmose bundle from Kraft Music. These package deals include the accessories you'll need to get the most out of your new synthesizer, all for one low price. If you have any questions, please contact us. Our knowledgeable sales advisors will be happy to assist in choosing the bundle that's right for you!"
Jordan Rudess shows off the Expressive E Osmose 49-Key Synthesizer & MPE MIDI Controller at the 2023 NAMM show.
Expressive E Osmose is the new standard for musical expressivity. Use intuitive gestures to control this standalone synthesizer and upgrade your playing and production skills. Press, bend, shake, strum and more to interact with keyboards and electronic sounds in a new, organic way. Whether you're a veteran keyboardist, a workflow-oriented producer, a daring sound designer or anything in between, Osmose will take your musical journey to uncharted places.
Get more for your money with an exclusive Osmose bundle from Kraft Music. These package deals include the accessories you'll need to get the most out of your new synthesizer, all for one low price. If you have any questions, please contact us. Our knowledgeable sales advisors will be happy to assist in choosing the bundle that's right for you!"
"Here is my very first look at the highly expressive Osmose synthesiser and MPE keyboard from Expressive-E. These are my very first impressions after a few hours getting familiar with the keyboard."
"Arché simulates the physics of a real bow striking real strings in painstaking detail, leading to a level of realism that has never been heard before in simulated string instruments, played with a keyboard interface.
Combining Expressive E’s unique algorithms with their patented Touché controller gives keyboardists an extraordinary opportunity to harness the evocative and powerful sound of the greatest solo string instruments in a way that sounds accurately articulated and is natural and immediate to play, either in the studio or on stage.
Although designed for the fullest integration using Expressive E Touché and Touché SE controllers, users can also enjoy most functions of Arché using standard MIDI keyboard controllers.
These three new software instruments are available for purchase exclusively on Expressive E’s website. The complete Arché Collection retails for 120€/$, with individual instruments available for 49€/$ each."
Playlist:
What is Arché ?
Arché Collection - Physically Modelled Strings
Start playing with Arché
Go further with Arché
Arché Violin
Arché Viola
Arché Cello
"Multiply the possibilities with the Phase Plant Expressive Suite: 400 MPE presets made for Phase Plant by our expert sound designers, made for Osmose and compatible with any MPE controller!
We’ve partnered with Kilohearts to expand our expressive ecosystem with expert MPE sounds for Phase Plant.
In this video, you'll learn more about our MPE expertise, the concepts behind presets and the 4 banks of the Phase Plant Expressive Suite: discover the digital textures of 'Stripes', the analog vibes of 'Delicious' or the cinematic soundscapes of 'Onirica' Vol.1 & Vol 2...
"Made for Osmose and compatible with any MPE controller, the Expressive Phase Plant Suite (400+ MPE presets) is now available on our website ! Discover the digital textures of 'Stripes', the analog vibes of 'Delicious' or the cinematic soundscapes of 'Onirica' Vol.1 & Vol 2. Which one inspires you the most?"
Video playlist:
Phase Plant Expressive Suite - Overview
Phase Plant Expressive Suite - MPE Preset Demos
Phase Plant Expressive Suite - Soundscape MPE Preset Recipe
Phase Plant Expressive Suite - Sax MPE Preset Recipe
Imagine digs deep inside the body of real-life instruments, modifies, and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.
