introduction: legacy midi vs mpe
a word on mpe Osmose is part of a family of MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) instruments and controllers that strive to tear down the expressive restrictions of common electronic instruments. When starting to control external instruments from Osmose, it’s useful to understand the way legacy MIDI communication is s…
config menu
☝️ The config menu has been significantly improved for firmware version 2.0. If you are on a firmware version 1.x, you won't have access to the functionality described below. We recommend an upgrade to version 2.0 to every Osmose owner. If for whatever reason you wish to stay on version 1.0, please refer to this P…
Triggering Osmose's sound engine (the EaganMatrix) from an external device
Osmose’s Augmented Keyboard Action sends MPE+ messages to the internal EaganMatrix sound engine. MPE+ is what Haken Audio calls their optimized extension to the MPE standard (MIDI Polyphonic Expression). You will find more information on its specifities here: If you wish to trigger the EaganMatrix with MIDI mess…
Do Touché or Touché SE support MPE?
Touché and Touché SE don't support MPE. MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is a standard that allows you to modulate the timbre and pitch separately for every single note within a polyphonic performance. Since there is no possible way for Touché to differentiate which note of your real-time performance or a pre-recor…
Does Lié support MPE?
For the time being, Lié is not supporting MPE. This means that you won't be able to separately control the pitch and timbre of individual notes played at the same time, even if you connected an MPE controller to input notes into Lié.
Which means does Osmose offer to control all my existing synths?
Apart from being a standalone synthesizer with an inbuilt sound engine, Osmose can also be used as an advanced MIDI controller for external software and hardware. As such, Osmose is fully downward compatible. It means that with Osmose, you will be able to control any external synth that you are already able to contro…
What are Osmose's advantages even when controlling a synth that doesn’t support MPE?
Even if your synth doesn’t support MPE and if you didn’t go for a Multi-channel workaround, you can still make use of the three expression zones of the Augmented Keyboard action. The three expression zones will work in the same way as if you would use an encoder or a fader on your synth. It means that the pressure yo…
What’s the advantage of MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression)?
Normally, when you tweak the sound or when you bend the pitch of your synthesizer, all notes that you play at that time will be affected in the same way, on a global basis. Instruments that support MPE allow you to control the timbre and pitch of every single note of a polyphonic performance independently from other…
Setting up ROLI instruments for playing MPE Collection sounds
To make sure that the sounds from MPE Collection respond well to your playing on your ROLI instrument, launch ROLI Dashboard and set the Slide Mode to 'Relative Unipolar'. If you are using a Seaboard RISE, please also adjust the touch strips on the instrument as follows: * Glide: 100% * Slide: 50% * Press: 100…
Is Arché supporting MPE?
Arché is not supporting MPE functionality for the time being. The instruments of the Arché Collection, just like a real violin, viola, and cello, are mainly monophonic instruments. On top of that, they feature a duophonic mode, that allows you to play so-called double-strokes on the instrument. You can however not m…
