#Expressive e touche update generator

The FX control has potential but it's a slightly odd selection. And you can see it in the presets, which have a samey quality to them because the up and down axes are typically simply mapped to the two synth layers expression channels and the left and right are mapped to effects control. This is the kind of thing that makes breath controllers far easier to use as you don't have to be as precise with the blowing.īut, it seems weird to couple a four-axis expression controller to a synth like this. You can hit the Touché, for example, and let it go and the expression control will rise and fall back to zero based on the lag settings. What it gives you on this is good, in that you have separate rise and fall lag parameters for expression, which makes it easier to play different kinds of instrument simulations. The second bit of bad news is that, bizarrely, it's really only set up to have one primary expression control channel. The bad news is that it is a fairly limited architecture other than the fact you can layer up about six oscillator/resonator combinations. The resonators and combs get you into physical-modelling territory easily enough. The subtractive synth and filter section sounds convincing enough. The Touché is really good for scraping and bouncing hammer-type gestures that are tough to pull off on a keyboard or a pad surface.

#Expressive e touche update generator

The good news on the sound generator side is that, in combination with something like a Touché, it sounds pretty alive. Though this makes it easy to audition different patches, for an instrument like this, I think you really want to be able to save CC setups as presets themselves as there will be situations where you want to remap them for different kinds of instruments. The bad news is that the controller settings seem to be global.

The integration with the Touché isn't very deep other than the default CCs are mapped to it. Though the setup page is called MIDI Learn, it doesn't force you to use MIDI learn: you can just pick the CC numbers from a menu, so you don't have the issue of learning the wrong CC just because you breathed into a controller or wobbled a parameter at the wrong moment. The good news for anyone without a Touché is that it plays nice with other controllers. Overall, so far it's a bit of a good news/bad news proposition. I've tried it with a Touché SE and a TEC breath/bite/tilt controller. I've got it and haven't had a chance to dig into it deeply yet, so there may be things I've missed that will change my opinion.