I’m guessing
Each key can have its own velocity curve
Each key can sense left/right pressure and forward (pushing) pressure.
And it’s very square
And they’ve made stuff up to claim a patent that in reality isn’t so special ?
And it’s very expensive.
And they’ve given them to well know musicians / influences in exchange for positive comments.
And I’m very skeptical/cynical at this time of day.
And it’s probably very good.
I agree, especially if Osmose comes with built-in synth engines like the current generation of Continuums.
Both Haken Audio and Expressive E seem to be the type of company to use high quality parts/components, no cost cutting with particle board, plastic, etc.
ROLI used to make a Seaboard with built-in synth engine for standalone operation. That was priced more in the $2000 range. Thus the new Expressive E-Haken instrument would be closer to that range, unless they have a partnership with the likes of Medeli (semi-secret parent of ASM) to reduce manufacturing costs.
Either way, I would hope nobody is expecting Arturia Micro pricing. 
Nothing new here yet? This one’s caught my interest.
Marketing is pretty well done 
First full picture of that thing I’ve found so far.
It should be available during Sommer 2020. 1.800€ and people preordering will get a 40% discount.
Looks awesome.
Looks really great-- tempted! I won’t preorder as that’s quite a wait and I would prefer to see reviews of build quality, feel and bugs first. It’s quite a generous preorder offer though.
Instant pre-order for me at the discounted price. Hopefully no issues arrive as they move to mass production. It looks fantastic.
You can use it as a MIDI keyboard for any MPE enabled softsynth. Not sure if there is any incentive for them to add more synth engines directly in the box?
They could charge for it. There certainly will be more EaganMatrix presets, that engine is very customizable.
I agree with you this is an Instant pre-order – seems like a few people may be agreeing, the Expressive E web-site is pretty bogged down.
Took me nearly an hour of slow loading and refreshing, but my reservation order went through finally 
This might deserve it’s own thread, but I hope ROLI is able to have strong holiday sales. We need more competition and innovation in this space. No single product will rule them all.
Hmmm… can’t decide on this one whether I think its amazing or meh!
It sure looks great though. Lovely design.
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Not been able to load the page at all today. Do you happen to know how long the pre-order is set to run?
Thanks. I have a feeling I’m going to have to make room for one of these.
As an Ableton user, if they can get a solid vst or something that will make life easy to integrate with the DAW then it becomes massively more appealing. I could never be arsed setting up the Roli in Live (a hassle for me). The Touche was a little better and easier for the end user but still not 100%. Interested to see and hear more.
Very cool. Though I’m pretty sure I won’t write better tracks if I get one. It’s not usually the lack of keyboard expression that stops me from getting shit done.
But it does seem lovely and I can totally see why I’d fall in love with this one if I ever tried it.
As I’ve said many times on this forum, getting a Haken Continuum utterly changed (and improved) my music. I did indeed write better, as it gave me an exciting and expressive new medium for which to write.