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OSMOSE The advent of MIDI Polyphonic Expression has opened up whole new dimensions (quite literally) to making music, allowing aspiring producers to control many forms of expression with each key press. However, while there are now a broad variety of MIDI controllers and software synths that will allow you to tap, glide and slide your way to a more expressive performance, we haven’t seen many stand-alone hardware synthesisers that can do the same. Until the Osmose. With a custom expressive sound engine designed by Haken Audio, the Expressive E’s Osmose comes packed with more than 500 presets, each of which includes customisable macros. Each of its 49 semi-weighted keys can then be tapped and pressed to trigger different sounds, shaken to deliver vibrato, stroked to bend pitch or even strummed. And…
