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Expressive E - OSMOSE49

Description

Expressive E, in collaboration with Haken Audio, releases Osmose, the new standard for musical expressivity. This standalone polyphonic synthesizer unlocks new ways to control sound with familiar gestures (press, bend, shake, & more). It features a deep sound-design engine and hundreds of ready-to-use, innovative presets. It also functions as a powerful controller for hardware & software synthesizers.

The EaganMatrix Sound Engine
Expressive E has partnered with Haken Audio to integrate its powerful EaganMatrix sound engine with Osmose. Its modular sound engine combines many types of digital synthesis (including physical modeling, FM, and more), making it a workflow-oriented soundbox. Osmose ships with more than 500 presets, and each of them has been manually customized with efficient macros that open new realms of sound exploration.

A playful playing experience
All the internal sounds in Osmose's large library are tailor-made to take advantage of its unique keybed. Osmose's unique sound identity is a combination of highly detailed acoustic, electronic, and hybrid sounds that will easily add nuances and variations to any music genre. These sounds were carefully crafted to react to a player's slightest movements and make use of the keys' three-dimensional sensitivity in a unique way to create effects such as strummed notes, vibrato, legato, layered dynamics, and much more. As a result, discovering and controlling Osmose's sounds is refreshing and fun!

Built to empower external synths
On top of being a traditional MIDI keyboard controller, Osmose can also interface with computers and other instruments as an MPE MIDI controller. It also offers polyphonic aftertouch support, a Multichannel MIDI mode, and global pitch bend. All of these changes can be made directly from the Osmose interface, with no need for a computer.

Features
* 49-Key keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch
* Full-size keys with 3-dimension MPE control
* 500 factory presets
* 128 user presets
* Filters and sub-filters for browsing
* Customisable sensitivity and velocity curves
* Multi-mode MPE arpeggiator and innovative pressure glide feature
* Digital stereo effects: select between reverb , mod delay, swept echo,analog echo or LPF and HPF delay
* Large colour display
* 9 push encoders
* Includes a Software updater for new firmware and library versions
* Includes a Mac/PC editor to create and edit sounds

Osmose Specs
Keybed: 49 full-size keys with three-dimensional MPE control
Configurations: Standalone synthesizer, MPE MIDI Controller, and classic MIDI Controller
Sound Engine: EaganMatrix, a digital modular engine by Haken Audio
Polyphony: Up to 24 voices
Interface: Colour LCD screen, pitch and modulation sliders
Pedal Inputs: 2 continuous pedal inputs, assignable to sustain or synth parameters; 6.35 mm Jack
MIDI: DIN MIDI In, MIDI Out/Thru, USB Type B
Audio Output: Two 1/4" TS pseudo balanced line outputs, 1/4" TRS headphone output
Power: External PSU with lockable connector, 12V, 1.5A, center positive
Dimensions: 894 x 316 x 87.5 mm / 35.2" x 12.4" x 3.4"
Weight: 8.3 kg / 18.4 lbs