Expressive E today introduced the Touché SE (“Software Edition”), an cheaper version of its Touché expressive MIDI controller that’s tailored to using with software synths.
Like the Touché, the new SE responds expressively to both soft and powerful gestures, giving you intuitive control over your sounds.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
Musicians, producers and sound designers can unlock instant, real-time control of multiple parameters at once, creating complex and evolving new sounds using intuitive slides, taps and touches of the Touché SE control surface.
Touché SE shares the same build quality, patented mechanism and sound library as the classic Touché, refined with USB-only connectivity for software applications, and a new polycarbonate touch-plate.
Profit from an expanded library of sounds with more than 200 factory sounds, pre-mapped to take full advantage of Touché SE’s extensive control capabilities, as well as more than 200 presets for third-party VST instruments.
Additionally, Touché’s companion software Lié allows users to easily host and unlock the true potential of their third-party VST instrument library. Users can quickly map parameters to the Touché SE interface, creating sounds and performances with an expressive depth they may never have realized their software was capable of.
Pricing and Availability
The Touché SE is available now for US $229.
Still no win7 or win8 support and drivers???
Windows 7 is about 10 years old and Microsoft is stopping all support in January 2019. Indeed, they stopped mainstream support in 2015. Windows 8 has about 7% of the Windows user market share and declining. Why should a developer waste their time on these for new products, especially a small company with a niche product?
“Windows 8 has about 7% of the Windows user market…”
Seems true, but it looks like Windows 7 is “accounting for 41.8% of the user share of all personal computers and 47.3% of all those running Windows”.
(ref: https://www.itworld.com/article/3199373/windows-pcs/windows-by-the-numbers-windows-10-marches-on-but-pace-may-be-a-problem.html?page=4)
Interesting, isn’t it?
Win 7 is the best OS ever I run this in my studio since 5 years without any problems… Why I should change to win 10? Why I should change such a smooth running system?
That’s a very legitimate question but, to be fair, it’s one for Microsoft not Expressive E.
It is a bit difficult to find which vst plugins have been interfaced so far. On their site, you are told to go to the download page. To do that, you need to create an account. But once the account is created, they ask you to register your product before you can get access to the info.
So I still do not have my answer…
Herisson, you can see it on this page I think : http://www.expressivee.com/eesounds/software-preset
Linux ARM support please?
Anyone get the original? Thoughts and usage?
Glad to see they offered a more economical route.
Next question is: can you route this USB MIDI to 5-Pin DIN, for hardware through a host with a USB MIDI interface also connected? Or did they cripple t so you can’t forward the data, and it only works with select softsynths through their proprietary interface? This is a major selling feature (or marketing secret).