First few hours with the osmose synth by expressive-e

no talking, no effects, little editing...
an amazing instrument, that plays amazingly easily when you already know the keyboard.

[@matteogazzolo1]

Came for the Osmose, stayed fascinated by music and playing.

[@guille_zndrke]

Me too ✊🏿😎🔥

[@1ManBassBand]

Ya this dude kills it

[@greybearmusic1174]

This is by far the best show of how to play the Osmose. Fearless, creative, full of wonder, and most importantly… Musical. This was a joy to listen to, and it grabs on the ethos of the Haken Continuum… Let the patch speak to you~ I’m also glad you did not put the name of the preset. This video presentation really keeps us using our ears as we wait for our Osmose to arrive.

[@mtyas]

Thanks a lot for the very kind words, and for finding a good excuse of my laziness (very simple little editing, lighting and camera work). But I'm also a defender of videos not getting in the way, but trying to tell a certain truth. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy your Osmose as much as I am :)

[@lorenzobiondi5727]

My favourite fragments are (list I keep for personal record) The first one 00:00 The one that starts at 07:19 I will use them to get inspiration when mine arrives and I'll be fiddling around with it

[@user-mk4fh2fq7p]

Love the passion. You've impriisoned yourself in your music. There's no escape.

[@mtyas]

best prison of all : Imagination

[@markf.wilson257]

You are amazing! What an inspiration you are. My mom (who passed in 2022) was a natural player-musician like you are...She couldn't read a note on paper but could play in any key and her song selection was unlimited. Your gift has made my heart smile :) Thank you, Mathew, for sharing FYI...her name was Joy for a reason.

[@mtyas]

Thank you Mark for sharing your feelings. It touches me very much and I'm sure your mother incarnated her name in everything she did, and music is just a great way of doing it universally, without verb. Take care and continue to inJoy, that's what life's about !

[@RonFeinbergmusic]

The best demo of Osmose on the Internet!!! Bravo!

[@pailiaq]

I must've watched this whole showcase from start to finish at least 3 times now. you're an inspiration and incredible musician, and this has motivated me to learn the keyboard. Hopefully I'll learn to improvise at a fraction of this level a few years from now.

[@Pulsophonic]

BEst demo of Osmose, no talking, just music...

[@VincentPersee]

incredible musical performance... incredible instrument. I truly believe it's the greastest instrument manking have ever created

[@detlefkiwitt2608]

Amazing player & amazing instrument - a perfect match. Thank you for this demo of both 😄

[@fe_mars7097]

Best example to date of the Osmose, I love how you hear the sound and play the style. Absolutely fantastic showmanship. Thank you for the in-depth use of this synth.

[@MartinLear_CChem_MRSC]

Inspirational playing. So natural sounding. Truly a multiplex of instruments not just sounds.

[@davlippo7]

I have one. Great job showing us how to play it. I'm real curious how two of these could interact so I ordered a second one. Picking two complimentary voices could really get deep, thick and full blown. I'm sure a future Osmose generation will contain two brains but at this price point buying two isn't that crazy. I did MIDI it up to a ASM and stage boards which can complement it with a touch of backing whether strings or pad etc. I was playing with the arpeggiator and it shut down and rebooted so that's bad news. It wasn't the power supply or connection seemed tight. Only happened once but I was freaking out. Shutting down is not an option during a gig. Never liked those silly adaptors not sure why but to save $50 instead of an actual internal supply and real socket. Pro gear shouldn't power this way and yet they still do it even though it's obviously a no no. That's design feature number one. Then there's no USB SS saving port option. Why not? I do not want to use a computer EVER except for OS updates. IF you look at most major manufacturers and they all have the obvious USB port save option and internal power why not follow their lead? They did it for a good reason. It's not like you are outsmarting them so don't do dumb things. Needs the obvious transpose button. Sometimes the portamento/slide icon doesn't show up so the system is unreliable. They need to stabilize the OS and fool-proof it. I have a feeling we are the "beta testers". I hope they can fix everything. The next generation will be far better. Just my opinion. Also the portamento or slide is turned on for numerous voices and with a full octave slide. It can be very annoying if you have to turn those off everytime or adjust it continuously. With only 128 user slots that won't touch editing even half the voices. Either they must be made editable, not sure that can happen currently, or you have to like it the way it is. Or you have to change the voice every single time you use it. Just common sense stuff I'm not sure how they overlook. IF a voice is highly editable and there's 500 or more you must provide a means to the workflow and make it easy, simple and fast. Why wouldn't you? I'm not a fan of complexity and time consumption and repetition, I like to do it once and forget it.

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

Good points, all. Thanks for sharing.

[@alexanderremizov3dgamedev347]

Played in the background while writing - would be so cool to have a whole improvisation jam from you on this instrument

[@mtyas]

Thanks, I'll try and do some more on the next few months (years), because it's such an amazing instrument.

[@gruntmonk]

Amazing playing, thank you for this... along with the expression, the patches are so different from other synthesizers I've heard... organic.

[@eafortson]

This was fantastic. Great work and thanks for sharing. 2 things I'm excited to see/hear next. 1) Hearing an entire arrangement with each instrument performed by the Osmose. 2) hearing a group composed of 3 or 4 osmose players performing live.

[@mtyas]

HI, thanks. I would love to hear both too. I wouldn't mind participating in number 2 too :)

[@jmeditation]

Chops for days my friend

[@ChandroJi]

This was an amazing Performance @Matthew Tyas, absolutely stunning! 👍 I had so much fun and you really impressed me with your creativity. Thanks a lot for this outstanding Show, the best I’ve seen so far. I have seen Jordan Ruddes with the Osmose but your first few hours impressed me much more! I think, the Osmose is made for you, everything you played had so much vibe and personality! WOW! 👍😊😅

[@mtyas]

Thank You very much. That magic feeling I had during those first few hours was quite unique, and each time I use it, the same things happen. I such a revolution for a pianist like me to at last have a ton more expressiveness and not lose too much of the keyboard feeling. It's sometimes frustrating because I would require a few hours of practice a day to get it just right (mainly pitches), but straight out of the box you can really get amazing results.

[@HowToShopGreen]

For those still considering to get the Osmose or not, this is only the beginning of what this keyboard is capable of. Great performance Mathew. I would love to see or more importantly HEAR more from you. Maybe next time you can MIDI your other devices to the Osmose and see what you can create with them? 😊

[@mtyas]

Hi, yes I'll try and show the osmose controlling other sound sources too soon. I've been playing it with pigments and a few other soft synths, and it's amazing. I need to test it with some of my hardware as soon as I find some time !

[@MarkGlinsky]

you are great my man

[@makeperceive]

Congrats on your new instrument. Sounds wonderful and looks so fun to play.

[@salif130]

Les sons accoutics sonnent d'enfer, super vidéo!

[@CognitiveEvolution]

Thanks, I couldn't get enough of Osmose demos, but this certainly helped. I watched and listened for the full 1:20. It's going to be a long wait before my Osmose comes.

[@robertronblom5581]

At 41:40 you're trying not the prettiest or fattest sound but the most expressive one and i find it absolutely amazing what one can do with a keyboard like this. I mean it is a freaking keyboard, if you know what i mean. I wish you all the best !

[@synthsandstuff]

Great performance Matthew, you became one with the instrument!

[@jjay775]

Beautiful instrument beautifully played. You've encouraged me to improve my keyboard skills:-)

[@oliviermarmotte4351]

super musicien, super musique , super sons, super merci

[@roruidos]

Superb demo, thank you for sharing your music

[@andropolonsky]

Thank you!…i am enjoying being together!..its a pleasure to be a part of your show!…;)..as listener and dancer..)..a little..))

[@eyesintheskies]

I really love your playing, thinking about getting one but I’m primarily a guitarist who dabbles with synths. Don’t feel I’m good enough at keys to be worthy of something like this 🤔 but hayho sure this would sound great even if I played it with my nose!

[@nobodyhome3753]

I could listen to you play all day. In fact I will listen to you play all day. Try and stop me.

[@PeterGarofalo]

excellent , waiting patiently for mine in january 2024.

[@morganmusic1504]

Bravo super vidéo, et juste en mode jam tu nous donne un bon aperçu de la puissance de ces sons. Encore bravo 😊

[@mtyas]

Merci à toi 😊

[@indigoskywalker]

wow, best demo I have seen of the Osmose

[@adorsey3149]

Came here for the Osmose demo and after a wonderful trip through your library, ended up leaving with an iTunes download of “Element 0”. Would love to see the Osmose make an appearance in future recordings on iTunes.

[@mtyas]

Thanks a lot, I'll definitely be using the osmose in my next "serious" productions, that's for sure. I really need to remix the "Element 0" album, I was in a bad state at that time, and never went back to it. Maybe one day !

[@adorsey3149]

@@mtyas I am looking forward to the upcoming recordings as well as the update on “Element 0”. But I am enjoying it as it is. Keep up the great work.

[@qntkka]

Excellent work!

[@mark35mi]

Brilliant. Bravo!

[@faober3594]

Awsome, mine should also arrive soon. I am disappointed at the fact I mostly ear physical modeling (in all other osmose videos also) sounds and very little “traditional” synth sounds. Eagan matrix is powerful toool to do any kind of sound and of course with mpe physical modeling really comes alive but I really hope they introduce more different sounds to it or at least let users share their own patches in a pool. nice playing ::)

[@mtyas]

Hi, yes I'm sorry about my sound selection, I used the "acoustic" sub genre while browsing the sounds for the first hour (at least), so I do agree that it's not very representative of the extent of sounds delivered. I wasn't really meaning to show the sounds, mainly trying to express the "feeling" of this new keybed from a simple pianist point of view.

[@faober3594]

Sounds awsome friend. Thankss

[@lukebogacik2793]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@ChittysMusicGear]

Amazing performance!

[@AngryPhotoGuy]

wonderful playing.

[@marcbrasse747]

Want one!

[@mtyas]

I understand :)

[@SebticSmile]

awesome - you are already at one with that beast!

[@neilloughran4437]

Really nice stuff.... I'm a few mins and it sounds wonderful. I have seen a few people use the left controllers to great effect... I'm thinking an expression pedal will be a great addition to expressiveness too...

[@mtyas]

Yes, I need to test it with pedals very soon :)

[@neilloughran4437]

@@mtyas yes especially for volume swells... :D

[@ssonpli6819]

Great demo !! cant wait to get mine monday 👌👌

[@bobfrye448]

Best sound demo yet. Waiting for my shipment email!

[@nickmowery_music]

When did you guys pre-order it? Back in 2020?

[@bobfrye448]

@@nickmowery_music way way back very early in Dec 2019

[@Thoracius]

been wanting one of these since I found out about it. most of these sounds I'd consider "funny." Cheesy, not very serious sounds. Like sounds like Crispin Glover music or something from Doug. But I guess that just means there's room for making more serious sounds. Does make me a little nervous that the sound engine isn't up to the task, but I guess there's no shortage of fantastic MPE compatible synths it can be used to control.

[@hunterfrederick2731]

Some of the osmose sounds are so organic and amazing! It’s hard to believe it’s all synth.

[@PeteKowalsky]

I'd ask how you like it, but it's painfully obvious that you're in heaven within the first 30 seconds LOL! I'm really bummed I had to cancel my pre-order 18 months ago. Live and learn - I'll pick one up sometime. If it's half as inspiring as the music I've heard here in your video it will blow my mind! That bit around 38:35 REALLY reminds me of W. Carlos stuff - superb, sir! That's quite the "Key Pit" you have there haha - will you toss out some other gear now that you have your Osmose? Looks like you have some well-loved gear there. P.S. You showed amazing restraint by not playing any Mario tunes with the patch at around 1:03:20. Not sure I would have fared as well! Thank you for sharing this - I feel almost like I snuck into a private show or something. Fantastic playing!

[@mtyas]

Thanks Pete, yes love at first touch, that's for sure, and it's a beauty to the eye too (which I never thought affected me). The classiness of it's design imposes us to respect it, and it's faithfull sensitivity deserves us to treat it with equal sensitivity. It was actually quite a mystic sensation sometimes. I'm really bad at selling gear, and I don't think the osmose covers up any other synth anyway. I don't have many polysynths, and most of my midi controllers are mainly for live gigs (that also come in useful in my spaceship). I'm not sure about using the osmose for many gigs yet, at least not for all the noisy messy gigs I do :) Thanks for the kind words, and I do hope you'll enjoy the osmose sometime in the future

[@microfx]

Good keyboard skills! You seem to be having fun with this one!

[@devondetroit2529]

He’s having an autistic fit

[@adamborkowski5649]

💪💪💪💪💪 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@daniX12345]

Es como el animoog pero real!

[@HowToShopGreen]

I would pay to see you live.

[@mtyas]

I do play live, but not with this spaceship, and not really the same music either.

[@endofgary]

Incroyable

[@devondetroit2529]

Interdasting comment fren

[@PutItAway101]

1:49 I want Jon Anderson to get one of these and do a whole album singing over that preset

[@mtyas]

oh YES !

[@bazbeat]

Yessire!

[@Johnnyjawbone]

Clueless tourist here. It's literally designed explicitly for expression. I've just watched multiple videos of seasoned musicians all glowing and smiling from ear to ear when playing it. I guess there's no pleasing some people.

[@philippegabathuler7121]

😮

[@garymorton7211]

Beautiful. Are any of the voices in this video native to the machine, or all they all supplied by outside sources?

[@100haymaker]

These are all Osmose voices.

[@bobfrye448]

Wonderful demo. Would be better only if you could share a time line with notations as to which voices are played, when

[@mtyas]

Yes, I should have done that, but I'm lazy :)

[@theturtleproject]

one question, how do you get into that chair , love the video and playing is awesome btw

[@mtyas]

I can't remember... If only I could get out, I could maybe try again :)

[@theturtleproject]

@@mtyas ha, na stay there , just order food and grab a bucket :)

[@caesarsheadache]

Amazing playing and fantastic as a demo of the device making me consider it. Can I ask if you are playing the presets purely as a standalone synth? Or are you playing in Daw mode? I prefer dawless instruments in general. Don’t get me wrong. Fanstastic to be able to tweak etc but merely prefer to this this on the unit not looking at a computer screen. This, what am I watching here? You playing onboard presets or is it computer connected. Would appreciate this knowledge to know if I need one myself. Regardless I thoroughly enjoyed your playing and than you for posting 👌🔥🔥🔥🤘

[@mtyas]

This is without a computer connected, just as a sound recorder. The USB cable is plugged in because I just did the firmware update, but for this video, it wasn't connected on the other side. I actually just tested it as a controller since last week (and loved it just the same, once you've adapted the patches to the mpe CC's each sound deserves) This is just me playing for the first time on the presets

[@caesarsheadache]

@@mtyas Cheers Matthew. Sounds like I must have it and did reach out already to get my climb the upcoming waitlists...Enjoy 🤘

[@bobrobertson9547]

Somebody let this poor guy out of that cupboard.

[@BillyMcBride]

You play nice melodies all the time. I wonder if you noticed any spikes in volume between sounds, that is to say, do the sounds play nice with each other as you change them from one to another? Great playing once again!

[@mtyas]

I had very little differences in sound levels (much less than on my ContinuuMini). It's normal to have the sensation that they are different, because the sound are so expressive, and programmed differently (assigning the velocity, 1st pressure, second pressure to so many different options), that it's hard to keep them in the same range. But I find they've done an amazing job on that front. I used the same gain, very little if not none volume changing during the whole performance of this video, so that shows you a bit the consistency.

[@blvcklumni6518]

❤

[@krazywabbit]

Well done! While this is out of my budget, perhaps I can emulate something with Analog V.

[@mtyas]

Hi, Thanks. Yes, hardware is really a much hyped luxury these days. Analog V, the korg collection, or Roland Cloud could give you plenty enough. Even just a daw with a few controllers.

[@judethree4405]

Best demoing of this unit so far on KZbin.

[@havenrab]

This Shit is sick

[@CharlesFerraro]

The song at 15:30 is pretty great. 38:17 is a hidden gem

[@mtyas]

Thanks, I was feeling quite inspired on this session, I think the sounds and feeling helps a lot :)

[@CharlesFerraro]

@@mtyas haven’t finished the vid yet so I’m prob going to edit my comment with more timestamps

[@MrBinsique]

Super! Thé one you play, Are their only preset from the Osmose?

[@mtyas]

Yes, it's only the included presets (and only a fragment of them)

[@dirkkeersmaekers4343]

😍

[@RitaElaineHeltonBarker-uz4sz]

Needs 88 keys for me to buy it

[@empatikokumalar8202]

sanki müzikle nefes alıyorsunuz ve dolayısı le veriyorsunuz gibi derinlerden çalıyorsunuz.

[@alejandrocarrilloguerrero]

Aja

[@vlouz64]

😂😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😁

[@kokakolagodcomp-vi2yv]

when you coughed, i couldnt hear anything, maybe put the mic closer to your mouth

[@jettsom]

Great skills but I’m not overly impressed by the sound engine. I was hoping for more I think. Nothing that a good VST can’t do. As an expressive tool it’s great though. I still have concern about the longevity and build quality of the instrument. We shall see.

[@JohnGauge790]

I think they nailed it. Organic, clean, pliable and something to build on/evolve.

[@johnbeckett8367]

Great Playing !!!!!

[@nalaeel219]

I thought you were having a seizure for a moment there.

[@judethree4405]

It seems that pitch bending happens on accident quite a bit.

[@philaiken249]

It is a setting called pressure glide that interpolates between 2 pitches within a set range, allowing full control of the speed of the glide or even holding it at a pitch in-between. It can be adjusted, or indeed shut off. It is one of the coolest features.