Expressive E Osmose

Osmose is the new standard for musical expressivity. Use intuitive gestures to control this standalone synthesizer and upgrade your playing & production skills. Press, bend, shake, strum & more to interact with keyboards & electronic sounds in a new organic way. Whether you’re a veteran keyboardist, a workflow-oriented producer, a daring sound designer, or anything in between, Osmose will take your musical journey to uncharted places.

FEATURES

• 49-key gesture-sensitive keybed (semi-weighted)

• custom expressive sound engine (by Haken Audio)

• more than 500 presets with custom macros

• external MIDI control w/classic & MPE keyboard configurations

• large color screen & ergonomic UI

• built-in MPE arpeggiator & innovative glide control

• custom sensitivity controls

• sleek & rugged design

From its inception, Osmose was designed as a solution to connect musicians with electronic instruments more intimately while still retaining the sound-design abilities of modern-day synthesizers.

Backed by a powerful sound engine made in collaboration with pioneering audio company Haken Audio, Osmose offers more than 500 creativity-boosting presets. Each of them was manually fine-tuned to offer performance and recording-ready macros. Preset curation covers many musical grounds, including modern pop, urban music, scoring, electronic music, sound design, and traditional instrumental music.

Made to inspire, Osmose offers a playful experience based on familiar gestures and thus presents a gentle learning curve. It offers the benefits of MPE instruments without the need to relearn the instrument entirely.

Combining traditional craftsmanship with modern technology, Osmose is the result of more than 10 years of research and development, as well as feedback from world class artists.

Osmose introduces new physical gestures, allowing musicians to interact with sounds and produce music. It does this while not only respecting, but also enhancing the player’s existing keyboard skills. Every note can be articulated independently with unique expressive possibilities.

The EaganMatrix Sound Engine
Offering new levels of expressivity required a seamless interaction between Osmose’s unique keybed mechanism and its sound engine. Logically, 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 itsunique 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.

SPECIFICATIONS

Keybed: 49 full-size keys with three-dimensional 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: Color LCD screen, pitch and modulation sliders
Pedal Inputs: 2 continuous pedal inputs, assignable to sustain or synth parameters
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
Dimensions: 894 x 316 x 87.5 mm / 35.2" x 12.4" x 3.4"
Weight: 8.3 kg / 18.4 lbs
Power: External PSU with lockable connector, 12V, 1.5A, center positive
Software: Software updater for new firmware and library versions A Mac/PC editor to create and edit sounds