I picked up a DK at a very good price but barely touched it. I was away last weekend though, ill the weekend before and then dealing with Coronavirus shit so staying calm. But still, a little surprised at myself. I usually have this immediate love for new synths and then after a couple of months things change.
Anyway, in a way this is saving the preorder. At the moment, I’m thinking I’ll stick with the DK for a few weeks more. If it doesn’t click then that will sold to fund the final payment of the preorder and I can go through the whole roller coaster again with the Osmose
I’ve at least had experience with Expressive E. The Touche was a lovely piece of hardware and I can easily imagine 49 mini touche’s being a wonderful experience. But as a Live user, it will be a bit of a downer (for me). Perhaps it would give me the excuse to get a hold of Logic. I think that supports MPE and I can get it at a student rate too…
Not sure if its been mentioned Already but Expressive Es website has been updated with an RRP of 1800 euros and a winter delivery. Can’t recall what the last preorder delivery update was but with everything going on it wouldn’t surprise If they pushed out to mid/late Q4 this year.
Interesting, never thought of that. It would perhaps not be too dissimilar to Kickstarter when they’ve made an arse of funding and beg for more. Those scenarios are almost always “give us more cash or you get nothing” type situations. Can’t see Expressive E going down that route mind you!
I guess it depends on contracts and what materials game already been brought in fire manufacturing?
The delivery and price are if you order it now. There’ll be different batch with different delivery dates. For now they don’t seem to suffer too much delay from the Covid-19, they sent an E-mail confirming this.
No you’re right, you can’t, I thought that because @J0n35y was referring to winter as a delivery date. On the website it says available in winter but it’s probably for release to public, it’s not an indication of what’s happennng regarding the preorder delivery.
New update from Expressive E. UI starting to really take shape from the looks of things and the new sound demo’s are nearly exactly what I’ve been hoping to hear from Osmose.
I’ve no idea where I will put this thing when it finally ships, but it’ll sure be nice to figure it out when the time comes. Ideally, I’d like it right in front of the Continuum with which it shares so much.
Ah, I missed that announcement. The Slim Continua seem to be the ‘next version’ of the two full-fat editions that have been in productions for so long. They aren’t doing the “full size” units, but the Slims are the same lengths as the two full-sized variants. Me, I wish I could afford a Slim, as it addresses some of the design issues I had with the old version (some sort of display, and proper left and right analog outputs). Still, it isn’t going to prevent me thoroughly enjoying the Continuum I have now. It’s still one of the most important and inspiring instruments in my studio.
In Part 3 of the Superbooth Home Edition you can find:
Christophe Duquesne showing the “La Voix du Luthier” with a Continuum: 0:13:50
Nothing new here, as far as I understand. I like that approach really much to add these kind of special speakers in an electronic setup for an even more instrument like feeling. I only listened to it in a loud environment on Musikmesse Frankfurt yet. Christophe is really a smart and kind guy.
Ed Eagan showing the slim line Haken Continuum: 1:40:46
He says that the presets for Continuum, Continuum Mini and EE Osmose are compatible while they are at the same time designed for the specific instrument. Interesting.
(the video on the superbooth site shows markers for the different parts in the video)
The current newsletter. I am looking so much forward to the instrument - although I have to wait a little bit longer. The final design looks fantastic to me - both in design and functionality.
I’m actually fine with waiting until mid-fall 2020 instead of this summer as originally planned. This gives me more time to knock the rust off my piano skills. Granted I was never a virtuoso on the piano in the first place, so the de-rusting process should be fairly quick for me.
This book happens to be on sale today so I’m ordering. It contains 12 piano etudes as part of the study of the Indian Melakarta system. I cannot think of a more appropriate piano lesson book to work with on the Osmose.
The stuff about key branches is the first time i read about their design philosophy on this:
key branches
The long black extensions behind the key is part of the key mechanism itself, forming one long lever. We call these extensions “branches”. With their high-sensitivity settings, chromatic glissandos and new approaches to playing are now possible.
Also interesting news is the material science technique using a “microscopic polycarbonate texture” to give both a smooth feel and a grip at the same time to the keys.
And heres an enlarged view of the angled mod and pitch controls:
EDITED: The blip on the bottom here is for the headphone output and volume control.
Was also looking at the connections on the back:
Aside on the "Elements of Indian Music" Book
Interesting that this book is for both keyboard and classical guitar practice. I know you play guitar too, Governor Silver. Mel Bay strikes again. I found a sample page:
And two audio samples: Classical Guitar Piano
