Beyond the Electric Piano with Lounge Lizard and Osmose – Sounds and Presets
If you’ve just bought the brand new Osmose 61 by Expressive E, you may well want to invest in their AAS Lounge Lizard Expressive Suite!
Sounds and Presets
Lounge Lizard Expressive Suite by Expressive E
It’s a busy week for Expressive E, what with the launch of the new 61-key version of their spectacular Osmose E synth just a couple of hours ago. And they cleverly snuck out their latest Expressive Suite a few days before which truly fits the bigger keyboard range of their new keyboard.
You may recall that Expressive E have been partnering with a number of plugin manufacturers, developing MPE-focused presets that really show off the respective synth’s MPE capabilities, whether you’re using an Osmose or another MPE keyboard or controller.
Following on from their partnership with Synape Audio and their Legend HZ synth, Expressive E have taken Applied Acoustic Systems Lounge Lizard and created 100 MPE presets for it. Lounge Lizard is a physically modelled rendition of two electric pianos, one tine-based, the other reed.
You may think that the very nature of an electric piano may not particularly lend itself to MPE, given that the originals had fairly limited expression capabilities. But when you listen to the demos, you soon discover that being able to assign various modes of expression to a physically modelled EP delivers sounds you could only once dream of.
It takes an unmistakable tone and makes it burst forth from the limitations of the original hardware, and will have you looking at electric pianos in a whole new light. And now, with the Osmose 61, you have the ability to play across the whole range of notes that you could with an electric piano.
As always, you can buy a bundle that gives you the Lounge Lizard plugin and the Electric Expressions MPE sound bank for a discounted price, or if you already own Lounge Lizard, you can buy the patch library on its own. Introductory offers are available until November 19th, 2025.
Azure for u-he Diva by Tom Wolfe
u-he’s Diva is a celebration of the very best of analogue synthesis. It allows you to choose from a range of different oscillator and filter types, giving you the opportunity to create your own virtual analogue synthesizer, the way you want it.
Diva has built quite a following, and now Tom Wolfe has released a set of atmospheric presets for it, using his trademark sound design skills to craft 50, as he describes, airy and atmospheric sounds. If you’re looking for floating vibes and ambience, this should be ticking your boxes.
The pack contains a range of pads and arpeggios, along with many key-type sounds that gather together and form a collection of inspiring and delicate tones, ideally suited for scoring work as well as ambient tracks.
As always, there’s a 5-patch free trial pack available, and the library is fully NKS-compliant for those of you sporting compatible hardware. You can pick Azure up for just £23.99, direct from Tom’s website.
Impulse for KORG multi/poly by LFO.store
Of all KORG’s recent Pi-based synths, the multi/poly ranks up there as one of the best and most popular of them so far. It took the concept of the mono/poly and blew it up into something new and vastly more impressive.
Many hailed it as a modern classic, and when you hear it, it is easy to understand why. It can turn its hand to almost any style and genre, and no matter what kind of music you produce, chances are that the multi/poly would find a home in your studio.
Impulse, from LFO.store, is a real showcase for the multi/poly delivering, as it does, on all sorts of sound types, from leads to basses, plucks and sequences, plus a healthy chunk of arps. It can easily work in most genres, but if you’re into house, electronica and trance, this pack is a must-have.
You can pick up Impulse for just €15 from the LFO.store site along with a raft of other libraries for the multi/poly and more. And don’t forget, this bank is compatible with all varieties of the multi/poly!
Noise Canvas for Arturia Pigments 6 by Anton Anru
Arturia Pigments 6 is just one of the best software synths available today, if not of all time. It is such an expansive, versatile and inspiring instrument that any musician should have this installed on their computer no matter what.
There is little that it can’t do, with its large array of oscillator types, modulation possibilities and intuitive modulation system. I’d love to see a standalone hardware version of Pigments, and you can get somewhere close to that by investing in Arturia’s amazing Astrolab in both the 61 and 88 key varieties.
Here, we have Anton Anru’s latest soundset for Pigments that is squarely focused on the ambient and IDM scenes. Called Noise Canvas, it is surprisingly musical and presents us with 50 lofi, gritty and very rhythmical patches.
Most patches feature plenty of modulations via the mod wheel and macros, and the bank is fully compatible with not just pigments, but also Analog Lab and AstroLab. You can buy it now from the Anton Anru store for just $19.95, and don’t forget that Pigments, along with a lot of Arturia products, is currently on offer in their Black Friday sale!
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