God almighty , I am loving mine so much . Really just kind of blows my mind every time I sit down and play it . Has brought me to literal tears a few times . As a 40+ year guitarist and a hack pianist / synthesist , it is simply incredible to get to bring all the touch and wiggle Ive developed over the years of guitar playing to the synth world . Just stunning , I hope expressive e gets all the success in the world ( while also secretly hoping no one else gets one 😏) . I have used it in ensemble stuff and it makes me instantly a better and more creative addition to the group . Incredible in the studio . Sets my soul and creativity alight . I adore it and am nothing short of blessed to have one . It was way more expensive than most of the rest of my synths but feels like the lowest cost to highest value instrument I’ve ever owned and I’ve got some holy grail stuff , especially with guitars . I am thrilled with mine ! !!!! Thx for the vid , keep it quiet tho 😏, zimmer has already spilled the beans ! (I kid , I hope everybody gets one ) . I imagine the new little module version will get some more folks on board ,however , it really doesn’t give the full effect with out the super special key set . I’ve tried a bunch of other wacky , buggy assed mpe interfaces but the keybed of the osmose towers above the rest .

So inspiring! Would love to have a thorough look at the presets. Can't seem to figure out how the HZ Darkness can be in tune when there's no formula containing X that controls the pitch as far as I can see.

Hi, thanks for your work. I have a question: the Octave Slide effects shown at 33:42, would it also be possible on the Osmose Expressive E? I ask for it, because I have the feeling that something like this is perhaps not possible on the Osmose due to its non-sliding type of keyboard. Let me know if possible. Thanks

Nice, but as is often the case with the Haken world, it sounds too experimental for me. First of all, I would like a simple bread-and-butter synth for my Osmose. And above all, where can I get these special synths?

It essentially has the same mechanics as a clavichord. And why it has taken this long for a company to make an instrument like this for sound synthesis is beyond me, but at least we're finally here!

00:44 Early Prototypes 02:08 NAMM Shows 04:40 Early Ideas 05:09 Subtractive Horn Sounds 05:52 Instant Round Pedal 08:36 Pink Panther with Instant Round Pedal 09:36 ARP Axxe 13:06 Mark Rubel and Pogo Studio 15:18 The Pogo Studio Modular Moog 16:42 Tesla Coil Music 19:01 Tesla Coil Performance at EOH2008 21:42 Scott Wyatt and "Risky Business" 24:41 SEAMUS Performance Incident 25:54 "Let's Go" with Tesla Coils 28:20 Symphony Orchestra Performances 30:07 "Quiquagenarium" 32:11 Handel's "Alla Hornpipe" 34:26 Classic Rock Band 35:47 "Auld Lang Syne" a la Queen 37:25 Textured Surfaces 39:33 "Fooling Yourself" Solo 41:34 Vector Synthesis 45:50 Joy Yang and the Interdisciples 52:45 3D Laser Demo

Would you practice traditional piano repertoire on this, or would you use a normal board with high quality samples?

Thanks David Gerard Matthews for a super introduction and historical review of this very important instrument! I appreciate you work. And thank you Lippold Haken for bringing Mr. Matthews to ContinuuCon. By now, many of the most recent Continuucon participants have-thanks to LIppold’s incredible generosity, a copy of my book/CDs “Electronic Perspectives: Vintage Electronic Musical Instruments.” There are some 6 pages in that publication that were cleaned up and restored by Joe Bastardo-my ace graphics artist, from the original 1928 introductory publication for the “ondes Musicales,” later known as the ondes Martenot. I hope to reproduce that complete booklet, as well as the 1937 “Programme” that relates to the use of the ondes Martenot at the Paris Exposition of 1937. Frankly this will depend on my ability to recoup the considerable sum spent to produce EP:VEMI. The web site for that is electronicperspectives.com and a number of interesting artifacts can be viewed/heard and downloaded re not only Maurice Martenot’s instruments, but many others as well at drtomrhea.com and/or KZbin Channel electronic perspectives, including my talk re a history of electronic musical instruments at the inaugural ContinuuCon in Ashevlle, NC. One minor note: Lev Termen’s (Theremin) instrument precedes Martenot by approximately a decade, just to keep the historical record straight. Best, and thanks again! Tom Rhea.

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This is fantastic

what preset are you using when showing off the ARP at arround 6 minutes

Some great insights

Great presentation, Mark, with the evolution and the incredible journey you have working with sound as a higher art there's enough inspiration that will last a lifetime. Keep innovating, creating, and displaying your incredible work.

I NEED to know when firmware 2.0 is being released! I love my Osmose so, so much. It has changed me as a player (and a person 😂) and I remain deeply in love, but I NEED more patch management functions and I NEED pressure glide and arp over MIDI. I'm driving a GS Music e7 polysynth (as well as the EaganMatrix) and with those updates, this thing instantly becomes the greatest MIDI controller of all time, period. I will bide my time... Thank you, you brilliantly talented designers and engineers for creating this magical instrument!

Thank you for these insides. Such things are very interesting to me 🌻

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

I’m right on the fence with this. I want expressiveness, I also want to improve my key playing, not by more functionality on the key bed but by practicing and learning more theory and such. So I want both. People tell me if I want to learn to play keys better, don’t get an Osmose. I tell myself I can dial down the sensitivity and play it like a piano and then go nuts with the settings and get weird. If I could get your thoughts on that Josh, I’m ready to spend I think.

If you want to skip my personal story and go straight to VCV Rack and my plugins, skip to 10:00. QR codes for links to VCV Rack, the HC one plugin, and the VCV Forums is at 1:00:59.

Having watched this 3 times now I think I’m ready to buy an Osmose. Such a great demo/performance thanks so much Josh.

I said I only used free modules in the demo, but I lied: at 22:00 I added Reverb, which only comes with Rack Pro. No worries, though, there are plenty of good free reverbs.

Timings and credits for all the pieces you played would be awesome if you could please compile this information for us! 🙌

Great work Christophe!

That JJP melody is so "Prog"! Great story about Rob's Ondioline. I'll should revisit the Jenny oscillator...

Yes, please?🤣 The Mahling presets are fun. I put up some audio on YT a while back... but it's the same exact kind of audio manipulation as you hear in this video, except using the Mahling sample, which is analysed and in the Continuum already. It would be great to plug other samples into those presets. It would be helpful to have a pdf with screengrabs showing where each function is, that we would use, in the usual order of operations. How to load or import a sample, and then how to listen, how to select the desired region, and then each step after that, which button or knob does what. The artistry of it, we can figure out on our own. This video is great as an overview of what you've accomplished so far. It looks ready for people to experiment with. I'm not on FB, so I'll check the Haken website this summer. The graphics look fine. It's editor software, which doesn't really have a live performance aspect, so I wouldn't worry TOO much about making it perfect. I can see it would be helpful to have Christophe's experience using it🥺, so I'm looking forward to it.

What a game changer product !

Great speech !

Incredible, I want an Osmose now!

Great video! What midi controller is mapped to the osmose? Looking to do the same thing.

is this software somewhere available to tryout?

Will any of this appear in the EaganMatrix?

I appreciate the work of Christophe very much and eagerly waiting for the implement in the new Haken firmware.

Josh Madoff is fantastically entertaining, a terrific teacher and totally brilliant! Loved the video!

Beautiful, Josh!

Thank you for the video! I'm really interested in creating a speciality synth based on EaganMatrix (Osmose flavour). Anyone knows where can I get any reference materials, maybe synths presented by Ed in the video?

Great demo! 👏👏

Amazing. I would just double the guy who commented at around 27:00 - a transpose function from the Osmose menu is currently lacking. Also, the option to change the tuning system from the Osmose menu would be absolutely amazing.

Inspiring to see and hear, thnx!

Brilliant!

re: the "Gestural" vis a vis "Organic" discussion - very reflective of similar things that Vlad Kremer of Soma Labs talks about as what informs the design of his instruments as well. Even to the extent that some of the Soma Labs instruments do not have MIDI out (MPE or not).

Fantastic talk for a fabulous instrument.

Well any kind of further software development is for the better. A part of me, however, oddly feels a bit uneasy about going against the puritanical idea of the Eagan matrix. Exploring the special sounds in the Osmose and treating them like a monolith definitely has its charm. I just hope the whole sound design philosophy carried to the Osmose doesn’t get watered down. 🫢

Be still my Ratio heart

Oh! That grand finale is SO on point. Perfetto! 🤌

Woohoo!

Lol! I have my Osmose on a tilted keyboard so my audience can see what's happening. :)

YOOOOO hell yeah

Revolutionary ideas!

Thx a lot Guillaume, you just taught me how to start with patching that beast without resorting to the user guide! Merci l'ami !

Hey Christophe, thx for this presentation! This is mind-blowing. Any news on the release date for this update?

it looks/ sound amazing, are there any existing osmose patch based on that ?