WTF is MPE? 🤷‍♂️ | feat. Pigments, Serum, UVI Falcon, Surge, and the Sensel Morph

Howdy Doody, Buckaroonies! Today we're here to talk about MPE, why it's cool, and check it out with Arturia Pigments, Xfer Serum, UVI Falcon, and the FREE Surge.
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0:00 WTF is MPE
3:09 MPE in Pigments
7:11 MPE in Falcon
8:38 MPE in Serum
9:23 MPE in Surge
10:10 Closing Thoughts
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[@drrodopszin]

With MPE pianists can finally be musicians as well. Welcome in the team folks!

[@VenusTheory]

Laughed way too hard at this

[@jloiben12]

This is great

[@chrisholmesproductions]

Would love to see a 2022/2023 version of this video, especially talking about other controllers

[@unrue1048]

I swear i learnd more about sound design and stuff in the 3 months since i know this channel then in the 6 years i've been producing.

[@VenusTheory]

That's awesome, glad to hear the channel has been so helpful!

[@SenselInc]

Such a clean and clear explanation. Thanks as always Venus Theory!

[@VenusTheory]

🙌

[@CypiXmusic]

Concise and clear, yet exploratory! Well done :)

[@mac0285]

The most expressive patch in this video is the one under your lip. Seriously though, those are great sounding patches you made that make me want to explore MPE!

[@GuidoGautsch]

Just came across your channel via your Iris 2 review and really dig it. MPE looks like a ton of fun. I picked up a Touche SE a while back and while it's not MPE, it does give you a lot more expression over your soft synths, especially their presets in Lie. This looks like it's a whole other level!

[@VenusTheory]

I got to play with the Toche myself at NAMM this year and that thing is really cool. I have the Expressive E instruments, but haven't really been able to use them as they kinda require the Touche to really work well. That said yeah proper MPE is really mind melting with the kind of possibilities it opens up. I'm really excited to see where it goes in the next few years!

[@exaltron]

Great vid, I'm so excited to start working with the Morph! Minor issue with the vid is we can't see your mouse pointer so sometimes when you say "let's do x here" it's not clear where you clicked.

[@PraneetTulshyan]

great video! i'm quite intrigued by the Embodme Erea Touch and it's MPE capabilities.. gonna try out these virtual instruments with it soon!

[@jonathanredman8497]

Like many say here, Venus Theory is excellent at explaining. His demoing and instruction is so much more professional than Manufacturers.

[@BrewskaySA]

Yeah I was thinking about buying the MPK Mini 3 but now I am just gonna save up and buy Sensel Morph! This is awesome and looking at some of the bundles that they offer it seems like this is both a value buy and a luxury buy! Thanks for putting me on to this one!

[@BodyOfPlayMusic]

This is so sick, thanks for such an educational video!!!!!

[@tjosselin]

Thanks for the explanation. I will try the same with Geoshred on iPad. Question: I understand the live MPE now, but what about recording the midi created live in any controller in a DAW, Cubase for example? Possible ? Easy?-)

[@biggnomo825]

That demonstration in Pigments reminded me A LOT of Mario Galaxy, when you finished the level but didn't grab the star.

[@AllHailTheNoise]

That serum patch alone is what sold me on this lol

[@VenusTheory]

FM with MPE in general is a lot of fun for really crazy sound design and one shots - that's one of my favorites to explore with things like Surge!

[@chrisw1462]

If you already have an iOS device, there's a touch MPE controller you can get for free. GeoShred has a fully customizable MPE touch keyboard / MIDI controller. GeoShred Control, customizable touch controller only, is free. Full GeoShred with over a hundred preprogrammed (and customizable) sounds is $25 US.

[@KiR_3d]

Hi! What's the best DAW that supports MPE? I've found that my FLStudio doesn't...

[@citadelo5ricks]

Have you tried Ableton Live Microtuner (MPE) with UVI (MPE) and got it to work?

[@Thmusic7]

I have a key lab 61K MKii. Does that have MPE capabilities?

[@mageprometheus]

Good one. One day we will be able to wire this stuff into our minds. Perfect articulations.

[@VenusTheory]

Google Glass: MPE edition. That, I'd love to see.

[@mdoerkse]

Denis Villeneuve wants you to score his next movie.

[@spacefacts2553]

what do you think about the sensel morph being discontinued? what would you choose as a replacement? thanks!

[@VenusTheory]

I am very very very very very very sad haha. I think at the moment, I'm considering the Joue Pro as an alternative but I haven't had a chance to try one yet. In the meantime, will be clinging to my Morph until it absolutely dies on me.

[@davmar9923]

Interesting. I believe my Roli Block should be capable of controlling MPE capable VST plugins.

[@NeonPLotus]

Thank you. I was going to look at a roli for this, but now I’ll check out a sensel morph. May as well get used to a flat interface, since my other main daw is Logic Pro.

[@VenusTheory]

Definitely recommend it! The ROLI is nice but it always felt a bit weird to me, and the people I know that own one also said it fell apart in ~1 year. (speaking about the smaller one, not the big giant ones just to be clear) Unless they've fixed that, I can't say I'd look at buying one.

[@NeonPLotus]

@@VenusTheory the smaller one was what I was looking at. The block. I wasn’t ready to invest in the larger one, rise, or the seaboard. Those two things are way too expensive. Since Logic pretty much demands you use an iPad, and there’s also sidecar on the new Macs (so I should be able to use the iPad with bitwig, as well), getting use to a flat, non-tactile surface, just makes sense anyway. I’d been looking at the Sensel, so you sold me on it.

[@JeiShian]

"What instrument do you play?" "yes" looks sweeet ! It reminds me of the Roli Seaboard. Some of the sounds reminded me of the Arrival OST too :)

[@VenusTheory]

You know it haha. And thanks! Love the Arrival OST.

[@vroteg]

Roli

[@JeiShian]

@@vroteg Oops I've fixed my comment. Thanks!

[@JeiShian]

@@VenusTheory Me too, and I love your well thought out presentation of these things :)

[@lowpassman]

Hi Is the pigments supports Ploy AT ？

[@Britske84]

Thanks. Now I want a morph.

[@aako-dd1ly]

I don't see how this can be implemented into music. I'm trying but I just do t get it

[@RUMImusic]

With Live 11 you can use MPE with the midi clip editor. So you dont need to buy a mpe controller. :)

[@StevePaulSounds]

seriously? please be a musician.

[@RUMImusic]

@@StevePaulSounds please tell me what a musician is? I would love to know that.

[@berserker2551]

Eargasm 7:55

[@photicsonar]

What ios app do you use?

[@dtrelzmusic]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@KozmykJ]

Yup Cam , it's all your fault. Saw the Morph in one of your previous videos ... and now I'm down that rabbit hole too. It's a long way to the bottom. 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 Curse that G.A.S.

[@VenusTheory]

Well worth it though - super handy little device, and of course MPE is badass.

[@michaelmilano4457]

serum

[@DBPawlan]

Don't you think that your explanations of how to actually implement MPE in Pigments is a little rushed?? Almost like you didn't want someone to actually follow what you were doing.

[@paulmoadibe9321]

wow... no need to play with nobs anymore, now, if only they would lower those prices a bit......

[@VenusTheory]

With Black Friday coming up though, you just might be able to get a deal!