I doubt this, the Continuum is a legacy unto itself… its pretty much the grandfather of all these expressive controllers, and the Eagan Matrix is part of that legacy.
also as I said, this is 3 guys… I don’t see they need to make ‘Haken Audio’ last forever as a company entity for the sake of its employees
(besides, the Osmose is not better than the Continuum, and much more mature, and its quite possible people will be playing the Continuum well after the last Osmose is put to sleep)
I think its pretty much as Expressive E have stated…
they were looking for a sound engine that would make use of their new technology, and Haken Audio is the ‘cream’ for this (and they already knew the Haken Audio guys anyway)
also, Haken have been branching out a bit… Continuumini and the Eagan Matrix Module (EMM).
the first, was I think to help fund the move move to a new PCB / DSP board, which has made everything that follows it possible.
but perhaps even more interesting is the EMM, many years back I said to Lippold/Edmund I wanted the Eagan Matrix as a standalone box (pre my eurorack days).
( much later, I told Christophe I was going to cut the keyboard off a ContinuumMini )
they said, it was unlikely to happen…
the reason being… they felt the Continuum surface was an extremely important part of the EM… and you cannot have the EM without presets being designed for it… which you cannot do without knowing the surface !
(so you cannot design presets for a generic mpe controller)
so there has been a bit of a shift in thinking…
and so, likely when approach by EE, they thought it could be an interesting collaboration.
as for more being more mass market, I suspect thats a blessing and a curse for them.
of course, hopefully provides more financial stability, but also a lot more expectation and pressure , falling on only 3 pairs of shoulders.
what we really don’t know is what EE plans are for the future…
Osmose is new for them, and its success, will for sure have them thinking about what next… where to we go? … but if may be even they don’t exactly know where that is… (beyond just doing thing like 61/88 key versions)
we have to remember, a large part of the Osmose market/usp is the keys… the familiar form factor.
there is nothing to say, they could not create a different osmose with a different synth engine, perhaps more familiar, perhaps of their own design.
in many ways, you could see that teaming up with Haken, helped reduce the initial work ,and risk - not having to worry about the synth engine, having something proven and respected already…
but its all pure speculation, and as I say, Id not be surprised if EE hasn’t even made firm decisions yet… Im sure they pretty much focused on delivering the current Osmose, and iron out issues.