Expressive E Osmose Synthesizer – Overview & Key Features

There’s been a long quest to make keyboard based synths more expressive especially over the past few decades. First, there were wheels, pedals, levers, finally, they added touch strips, breath controller inputs and even keyboard aftertouch.

However, more recently, manufacturers started comming out with MPE instruments. These are MIDI polyphonic expression instruments. That said, let’s take at the Osmos by Expressive E, minimalistic synth , yet powerful.

This is the first out of five videos we made for Osmose. It’s walkthrough so that you can get the big picture of what synth can do.

 

Video Chapters:

Intro (0:00)

Differentiation from Other MPEs (:48)

Sound Demo (2:00)

Video Overview (2:29)

Sound Demo (3:00)

Design (3:19)

Multi-Dimensional Keys (3:34)

Sound Overview (4:06)

Synth Engine Overview (5:08)

Ext MIDI Mode Overview (5:49)

Sound Demo 2 (6:30)

Construction (6:43)

Buttons and Encoders (7:09)

Fader Controls (7:44)

Screen Controls (8:25)

Rear Panel (9:17)

Front Panel (9:47)

Key Design (10:05)

Aftertouch Demo (11:09)

Polyphonic Pressure Control Demo (11:39)

Aftertouch Travel (12:00)

Left and Right Control Demo (12:49)

Playability (13:42)

Macros (14:39)

Sound Demo 3 (15:16)

Sound Demo 4 (15:59)

Sound Demo 5 (16:19)

Pros (17:00)

Cons (20:00)

Patch Playthrough 1 (21:25)

Patch Playthrough 2 (22:05)

Patch Playthrough 3 (22:42)

Patch Playthrough 4 (23:15)

Conclusion (23:35)