SOUNDS AND PRESETS
Expressive E - News and Rumours
You want all the latest news, rumours and everything else there’s to know about Expressive E? We're happy to oblige: On this page you’ll find everything at a glance – and it’s always up to date!
UNDERSTANDING MIDI
What is MIDI? A Guide to Understanding MIDI
08 Jan · Have you ever pondered the question, "What is MIDI?", we find out about the different aspects of MIDI and where they come into play.
SOUNDS AND PRESETS
Sounds and Presets: The Best Presets of 2024
18 Dec 2024 · This week, I take a look back through my Sounds and Presets column to pick out the best presets that we featured in 2024
Expressive E Osmose: Interview With Hans Zimmer
12 Dec 2024 · Hans Zimmer talks in a documentary about the use of Expressive E Osmose in his film music projects. Very interesting!
SOUNDS AND PRESETS
Sounds and Presets: The Arturia Polybrute 12 Finally Gets Great 3rd Party Patches!
04 Dec 2024 · Scott McAuley Sounds delivers one of the first Arturia Polybrute 12 specific sound banks, and Expressive E releases the Legend HZ Expressive Suite.
GAME-CHANGING
Game-Changing Synths: 7 Modern Synthesizers That Are Transforming Music-Making
29 Nov 2024 · These modern game-changing synths are changing the way we make and play music.
SOUNDS AND PRESETS
Sounds and Presets: Hive 2 Presets from Expressive E and New Sounds for Atomika
23 Oct 2024 · Plenty of variety this week as we check out new MPE presets for u-He's Hive 2 from Osmose manufacturer, Expressive E and a new Piano library for IK Multimedia's Pianoverse.
MODERN SYNTH CLASSICS
Modern Synth Classics: 9 Incredible Synthesizers We’ll Still Be Talking About in 30 Years
20 Sep 2024 · These are the modern synth classics that we’ll wax nostalgic over in decades to come. Did your favorite make the list?
Software Deals
Software Deals: MPC Expansions, Output, Flux, Pulsar Audio & more
06 Aug 2024 · In this week’s edition of Software Deals, stock up on AKAI MPC Expansions for an amazing price! Other bargains are coming your way from Flux, Output, Pulsar Audio, and Expressive E.
SOUNDTRACK SYNTHS
Soundtrack Synths: Get That Blockbuster Sound
07 Jun 2024 · Modern big-budget movie scores are full of synths. Get the soundtrack synth sounds of Dune, Furiosa, Oppenheimer and more.
The Best Synth for You Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type
17 May 2024 · Unsure what the best synth is for you? Use psychology to help you pick the perfect one.
Osmose + Kilohearts, Woodwinds & Experimental Drums!
20 Mar 2024 · Quite a variety of new sounds and samples including a superb expansion for Osmose, Woodwinds for action and spaced-out beats!
Software Deals: Save on Steinberg Cubase, Ableton, Softube, & more!
09 Jan 2024 · No matter if you prefer Steinberg Cubase or Ableton Live: You can now score amazing deals on both DAWs! Check out the software deals of the week.
Synth Deals from Expressive E, Elektron, Arturia, and Polyend
03 Jan 2024 · We get the year started with an array of Synth Deals ranging from grooveboxes, hybrid synths, and useful Eurorack modules for your setup.
Best Synths of 2023: UDO, Roland, Behringer and More!
13 Dec 2023 · We look back at a phenomenal year and reveal our pick for the best synths of 2023 with Roland, UDO, Expressive E, Behringer and Groove Synthesis.
MPE synthesizers – sensitive sound machines
22 Nov 2023 · Are you looking for your first expressive synth? We've got the best MPE synthesizers from ASM, Haken Audio, Expressive-E and many others for you!
HOT TOPIC – Osmose: Game-changer or eMPEror’s new clothes?
12 Jan 2023 · The Expressive E Osmose keyboard is creating an industry buzz. In the first of our HOT TOPIC features, we asked our synth experts for their opinions.
Superbooth 2021: Expressive E releases multidimensional acoustic tones in Imagine
10 Sep 2021 · Expressive E and Applied Acoustics Systems have got together to produce Imagine, a new software instrument that digs deep inside the body of real instruments.
Noisy: Expressive E gets out of character with a raucously expressive synth
18 Dec 2020 · An unexpectedly fruity software synth from Expressive E. Noisy looks surprisingly groovy and offers an expressive dive into physical modelling and subtractive synthesis.
Expressive E and Haken Audio tease a “groundbreaking” new product
13 Nov 2019 · Put Expressive E and Haken Audio together in a room and you'd have more performance expression than a contemporary dance workshop. They've got something new to show us and it's going to be fabulous.
NAMM 2019: Arché – physically modelled strings for authentic expressive control
18 Jan 2019 · Expressive E the makers of the weirdly wonderful Touché wobbly MIDI/CV controller has introduced Arché, a suite of virtual instruments that model the acoustic qualities of three stringed instruments.
Touché SE: affordable version of the wobbly block USB expressive controller thing
17 Sep 2018 · Become one with the Touché SE wobbly block controller and you'll be gesturing your control over all your software instruments. This USB only version is a great price for a fabulous amount of nuance and ...
Superbooth 2017 Show Report: Why this is the most exciting music trade show on Earth
26 Apr 2017 · Here's a round-up of the cool things our resident synth specialist Robin Vincent found at the electronic music technology synth-fest that is Superbooth 2017.