The composer I work for has had one for a few months now, and its COMPLETELY changed how he writes. The instrument is able to make the sounds he's always heard in his head, but a keyboard couldn't provide. Amazing machine.
This is an amazing instrument, it changes how you use a keybed and makes you re-think your playstyle. It's not for everyone, but it is truly an amazing piece of hardware.
Thanks for reviewing the Osmose. I am a owner who has only been using the Highest note option for key wiggle vibrato. I was unaware that all notes can be available simultaneously until I watched this vid. Because ExpressiveE is a small company there's not enough info out about how deep it really is. Thanks for shining some light on the future of this real instrument!
My osmose only does pitchbend wiggle on 1 note at a time not ALL of the pressed notes at the same time. He says this when he describes the 96 step pitchbend. This is not true. Individual filter per note in a held chord is always available.
I've been using one on tour for the past few months - it's a really enjoyable instrument and has proved roadworthy till now. Still hardly scratched the surface programming-wise... Thanks for your great videos, Anthony!
Osmose is so fun! Doesn’t replace your fav board, but leverages the skills it gave you with an incredible range of new expressions from a keyboard layout. I like the synth a lot also, which is super responsive. Presets have custom macros which allow you change each without the deep dive to learn the powerful engine. Build quality best I’ve ever seen. Just learning the arp now 🎉
Every time I watch this Keybed, I love it and dream to play it... that said, it replace usefully pedals, and more our hands are directly involved to express the melody we play, like for some instrument, like guitare, cello, wind instruments, by mouth, tongue, and others... The adult age of analog synths is beginning 😊
This is one of those synths you could get lost in for hours, at the expense of personal relationships and obligations. Anyway, I was hoping to see Anthony shred on this beast!
Imagine you show an amazing toy to somebody…who looks at what you do…with the hands in deep pockets….Namm seems to be exhaustive to a certain extend. Thanj you very much for putting out another video about this amazing instrument!! All the best and get well soon.
How old is Jean-Michel Jarre now? I feel like this is the instrument that he's been waiting for his entire life! Can you imagine a new massive live performance in Houston or London Docklands based around the Osmose?
When i first saw a ROLI Seaboard I was blown away by what it could do and the expression you could put in was amazing. I saved hard and got one...now THIS comes along and blows that away , especially with its built in synth and fx. I am gonna start saving now ...hope i dont have to sell another body part . 😂😂😂
❤ I love my Osmose. I have had it for one year because I preordered it three years before production started. I used it on my latest forthcoming album. You as a film composer will definitely find use for it. I find recording midi cumbersome but maybe that's because I only use hardware sequencers, none of which support mpe, including the Akai MPC X, which is the sequencer I use with the Osmose.
Anthony, I would love if you got an Osmose and could work on learning and teaching the Eagen Matrix. I got an Osmose last year and use it extensively live, but I really haven’t dug into sound design on it. Your instructional approach would be much appreciated with this complex synth engine.
I was wondering the same thing. Hunted through comments hoping someone would ask, gonna keep checking in to see if there is a response. Wish this comment was pinned up top
Very impressive especially for scoring films/TV soundtracks. It would be nice to have wavetables or typical sine, saw, square you could manipulate and still keep all the functuinality Instead of only having 500 patches.
You can use it as an MPE midi controller as well, and thus use it to control other synths or MPE capable plugins (like Arturia's Pigments for example). You're not limited to the 500 Eagan Matrix patches.
You can program your own sounds - although there are so many options its not that easy. Setting up simple sine saw or square patches is not that difficult though. You really need to play one to understand that the kind of things you are used to on a normal synth are not always what you want on the Osmose. For example it doesn't have adsr in the usual way because the 'envelope' is created by your fingers individually for each key. It does have an enormous amount of different synthesis types available.
this is unrelated but, I just noticed you did the score to the film "15 minutes", my late best friend David's band God lives underwater had a song on the soundtrack (Bowie's "fame"), small world
I like the idea, but at the moment, everything made with it sounds like an Osmose. I'm sure that will change of course, but what I am saying is that at least to me, it is very much its own thing. It really is excellent for cinematics, orchestral ambient and experimental work, but of course there is still room for on, off and maybe a bit of velocity. It's certainly a very cool device.
I would REALLY like to know more about the Osmose's integration with soft synths and Kontakt instruments within a DAW. I wouldn't want to be locked into the keyboard's internal synth engine. Versatility is key. Thanks.
I had the same doubt, but then bought one and Im amazed by it. It'll depend on the synth of course... I got with it NOISE 2 MPE synth (also from Expressive E or partnered with them, and it's really nicely set up to respond to it. KONTAKT isn't MPE compatible (although on the seaboard help pages there are work arounds that make it work, a multi instrument thing) but even the synths that aren't polyphonic mpe can respond to the natural finger wiggling pitch bend the osmose that is very musical. and Im discovering that the arpeggiator is really powerful and interesting, the keybed is so damn sensitive, you can do really amazingly subtle drum rolls on just one Kontakt kick drum sound (for instance), where pressure is linked to ratchet (arp gets faster gradually), aftertouch to subtle pitch shifts, so that you get an amazing musical, live drum roll under your fingers that barely start with the gentlest of caresses and go from there. BRILLIANT. like having a top notch drummer's chops under one finger. difficult to describe but I feel Im only just scratching the surface of what is possible. The synth engine is wild (although Im still finding some of the sounds a bit synthetic, (unapologetically so, mind), and for floating, subtly evolving beds and pads, or expressive bass sounds, or sound design textures that come out of your fingers just floating gently on the keyboard, its AMAZING. the trick here is the keybed, for me. Im classically trained and have really taken to the way it's set up. I also bought the MPE enabled AURAS instrument from Slate and Ash and it's nicely enjoyable to play around with too. It really is a different beast and I feel like it's an instrument that deserves learning, like any other. Anthony has another video about hooking it up to CV controlled analog synths with the Haken CVC and it's amazing what it can allow you to do. For a synth legend who's seen it all to say that the Osmose keybed allows him to get NEW sounds and ideas never before possible out of an ARP or MOOG, that's a real achievement.
I really wasn't impressed with the Osmose E when it came out but this..... wow!!! What a demo!! It's in a class all by itself!!! (And tell that guy it's MARINELLI not Martinelli LOL!!!)
You don't even know what it's called, you've always hated on this instrument purely because you don't even understand what it is or what it can do. Stick with your "cat" vids, something that is probably more inline with your skillset.
and thankfully not black on black color of rolli in a dark studio!… - but none of this is really new but really nice take on MPE Now can we have a $2000 88 key version please!
What is wrong with these sales people? I had to scroll to the end to hear Anthony play and is was way too short. You are so patient with these folks. Onwards to the next demo.
Anybody know what stand they have screwed into that back of the Osmose? I've been waiting for them to release something like this but maybe it's 3rd party? Nothing on the Expressive E website that Ive found.
Its a great synth, I have one and love it. However some of the things being said here are exaggeration or just wrong. 'it reads your mind' oh yeah really! 'there is an analogue delay with all of the aliasing you would expect from an analogue delay' ha ha Just let the synth speak for itself.
There will always be something better on the other side of the fence. For me, I'm glad that the Osmose exists, because the Continuum I couldn't afford in a lifetime! And it's still blowing the mind of every musician entering my studio. Compared to any ususal keyboard, this thing is completely nuts.
Kebu did a great use of the keybed on one Video. I'm sorry for the guy but this was horrible to listen. Stand great players to adopt it, as You said You will put your hands on it, would be great to take Your lesson!
I almost put in a down payment on one of these last year, but I realized I didn't have a good enough space for it. Gonna sort out my layout a bit more and hopefully get one of these sooner or later.
Well well John Hurd . Exists realtime expressive playing music. Exist professional musicians semi half professional musicians and kinder garden semi half playing musicians.When piano playing comes on our planet they just say to as you can play with two hands and without no +/- oct. switches either for every other styles. Interesting is possible to and is good to switch between one side to another side of the prof.fantasy keyboard and then go to piano keyboard playing or just to say going to piano sound. Hmmm something is missing. We all have to have possibility to play and have our own practice then buying this kind of professional new future specific keyboard. You can make keyboard from one octaves to all octaves at the same time we can use it like a master keyboard .Happiness . At the same time why have more keyboards if you can have only one professional keyboard and have free space in the studio room for other equipment . Sorry for my Tarzan english . I am from ..........
The composer I work for has had one for a few months now, and its COMPLETELY changed how he writes. The instrument is able to make the sounds he's always heard in his head, but a keyboard couldn't provide. Amazing machine.
you work for a composer in 2024? lies.
@@guy24733 what the fuck is that supposed to mean?
@@kds58 That job has a limited life span I'd say 1 to 2 years more max
@@guy24733 why come to such an inspirational video to spout negativity? the mind boggles
@@guy24733 you're probably the dumbest person I've come across in my whole internet journey
If Anthony wasn't doing these NAMM videos I doubt I would know about these new technologies and devices for several more years. Thanks Anthony! 🎶👏🎵
That'd be just fine, I have to save up a lot of pennies. 😸
This is an amazing instrument, it changes how you use a keybed and makes you re-think your playstyle.
It's not for everyone, but it is truly an amazing piece of hardware.
Thanks for reviewing the Osmose. I am a owner who has only been using the Highest note option for key wiggle vibrato. I was unaware that all notes can be available simultaneously until I watched this vid. Because ExpressiveE is a small company there's not enough info out about how deep it really is. Thanks for shining some light on the future of this real instrument!
I teared up at @10:02 . This thing is incredible! So expressive. What a time to be alive!❤️🎹💯🙏🏼
Yes, what a time @
My osmose only does pitchbend wiggle on 1 note at a time not ALL of the pressed notes at the same time. He says this when he describes the 96 step pitchbend. This is not true. Individual filter per note in a held chord is always available.
You didn't tear up, lies.
I've been using one on tour for the past few months - it's a really enjoyable instrument and has proved roadworthy till now. Still hardly scratched the surface programming-wise... Thanks for your great videos, Anthony!
I very much like how open you are to modern, innovative directions in the synth world!
A synth made for Vangelis. Stunning.
you're so warm man. Really amazing personality.
Osmose is so fun! Doesn’t replace your fav board, but leverages the skills it gave you with an incredible range of new expressions from a keyboard layout. I like the synth a lot also, which is super responsive. Presets have custom macros which allow you change each without the deep dive to learn the powerful engine. Build quality best I’ve ever seen. Just learning the arp now 🎉
Every time I watch this Keybed, I love it and dream to play it... that said, it replace usefully pedals, and more our hands are directly involved to express the melody we play, like for some instrument, like guitare, cello, wind instruments, by mouth, tongue, and others...
The adult age of analog synths is beginning 😊
This synth is absolutely amazing WOW!!!
Thank you for this wonderful presentation 🙏🏼
This is one of those synths you could get lost in for hours, at the expense of personal relationships and obligations. Anyway, I was hoping to see Anthony shred on this beast!
Imagine you show an amazing toy to somebody…who looks at what you do…with the hands in deep pockets….Namm seems to be exhaustive to a certain extend. Thanj you very much for putting out another video about this amazing instrument!! All the best and get well soon.
I love my osmose! So so expressive.
Amazing wonderful synth.
Get one man ! Ive had mine for almost a year now and I absolutely love it!
How old is Jean-Michel Jarre now? I feel like this is the instrument that he's been waiting for his entire life! Can you imagine a new massive live performance in Houston or London Docklands based around the Osmose?
75
He actually has one. There’s a YT video somewhere made in the last year of him showing the synths he keeps in his studio now.
When i first saw a ROLI Seaboard I was blown away by what it could do and the expression you could put in was amazing. I saved hard and got one...now THIS comes along and blows that away , especially with its built in synth and fx. I am gonna start saving now ...hope i dont have to sell another body part . 😂😂😂
Great video and a really exceptional presenter.
Absolutely love mine!
Amazing!
The guy in the green shirt who turns up in the background at 4:40 seems to have a good time with the Osmose too 😂
🤣
jammin' & headbangin' ❤
Cool stuff. Very innovative...all though it seems like a lot could go wrong.
thanks Antony for these great videos
🔥🔥🔥
Good job on the demonstration Bro 👍🏿
Great work, Josh!
Love my Osmose!
thank you Anthony!!
❤ I love my Osmose. I have had it for one year because I preordered it three years before production started. I used it on my latest forthcoming album. You as a film composer will definitely find use for it. I find recording midi cumbersome but maybe that's because I only use hardware sequencers, none of which support mpe, including the Akai MPC X, which is the sequencer I use with the Osmose.
The Osmose, actually an instrument that there is no way around.
Anthony, I would love if you got an Osmose and could work on learning and teaching the Eagen Matrix. I got an Osmose last year and use it extensively live, but I really haven’t dug into sound design on it. Your instructional approach would be much appreciated with this complex synth engine.
Anyone know what arms are mounted under the Korg nanoKONTROL2 on the back of the Osmose? Looks great.
I was wondering the same thing. Hunted through comments hoping someone would ask, gonna keep checking in to see if there is a response. Wish this comment was pinned up top
Very Good video
Very impressive especially for scoring films/TV soundtracks. It would be nice to have wavetables or typical sine, saw, square you could manipulate and still keep all the functuinality Instead of only having 500 patches.
You can use it as an MPE midi controller as well, and thus use it to control other synths or MPE capable plugins (like Arturia's Pigments for example). You're not limited to the 500 Eagan Matrix patches.
@@chaosme1ster Oh! Thanks.
You can program your own sounds - although there are so many options its not that easy. Setting up simple sine saw or square patches is not that difficult though. You really need to play one to understand that the kind of things you are used to on a normal synth are not always what you want on the Osmose. For example it doesn't have adsr in the usual way because the 'envelope' is created by your fingers individually for each key. It does have an enormous amount of different synthesis types available.
Great piece of gear ❤
Cool, thank you!
At last I'm slowly becoming interested in synths again!
Wow 😮
Blew me away!!!
Well now I need one... this with my Push & eventually a Linnstrument
Sounds incredible Anthony !!! Is this all on one keyboard ?
Yes! I own one.
Have you tried the Roli seaboard? Great vid, thanks!
That long sound is so much like the cs80 🔥😂
When Anthony is quiet I can almost hear his brain processing...
😅 Excactly! He seems to be a great listener and observer.
this is unrelated but, I just noticed you did the score to the film "15 minutes", my late best friend David's band God lives underwater had a song on the soundtrack (Bowie's "fame"), small world
for the money, there would have to be a MUCH bigger library available, or extension app to allow use of other sound modules... right ?
А-фи-геть! Круто!
Pretty interesting.
I like the idea, but at the moment, everything made with it sounds like an Osmose. I'm sure that will change of course, but what I am saying is that at least to me, it is very much its own thing. It really is excellent for cinematics, orchestral ambient and experimental work, but of course there is still room for on, off and maybe a bit of velocity. It's certainly a very cool device.
I would REALLY like to know more about the Osmose's integration with soft synths and Kontakt instruments within a DAW. I wouldn't want to be locked into the keyboard's internal synth engine. Versatility is key. Thanks.
I had the same doubt, but then bought one and Im amazed by it. It'll depend on the synth of course... I got with it NOISE 2 MPE synth (also from Expressive E or partnered with them, and it's really nicely set up to respond to it. KONTAKT isn't MPE compatible (although on the seaboard help pages there are work arounds that make it work, a multi instrument thing) but even the synths that aren't polyphonic mpe can respond to the natural finger wiggling pitch bend the osmose that is very musical. and Im discovering that the arpeggiator is really powerful and interesting, the keybed is so damn sensitive, you can do really amazingly subtle drum rolls on just one Kontakt kick drum sound (for instance), where pressure is linked to ratchet (arp gets faster gradually), aftertouch to subtle pitch shifts, so that you get an amazing musical, live drum roll under your fingers that barely start with the gentlest of caresses and go from there. BRILLIANT. like having a top notch drummer's chops under one finger. difficult to describe but I feel Im only just scratching the surface of what is possible. The synth engine is wild (although Im still finding some of the sounds a bit synthetic, (unapologetically so, mind), and for floating, subtly evolving beds and pads, or expressive bass sounds, or sound design textures that come out of your fingers just floating gently on the keyboard, its AMAZING. the trick here is the keybed, for me. Im classically trained and have really taken to the way it's set up. I also bought the MPE enabled AURAS instrument from Slate and Ash and it's nicely enjoyable to play around with too. It really is a different beast and I feel like it's an instrument that deserves learning, like any other. Anthony has another video about hooking it up to CV controlled analog synths with the Haken CVC and it's amazing what it can allow you to do. For a synth legend who's seen it all to say that the Osmose keybed allows him to get NEW sounds and ideas never before possible out of an ARP or MOOG, that's a real achievement.
I really wasn't impressed with the Osmose E when it came out but this..... wow!!! What a demo!! It's in a class all by itself!!! (And tell that guy it's MARINELLI not Martinelli LOL!!!)
You don't even know what it's called, you've always hated on this instrument purely because you don't even understand what it is or what it can do.
Stick with your "cat" vids, something that is probably more inline with your skillset.
@@DankePlace Leave the hate at home dude. The world's in enough trouble as it is.
@@chaosme1ster you mean the guy I replied to who tried to get everyone to boycott Espen Kraft?
Erm OK.
and thankfully not black on black color of rolli in a dark studio!… - but none of this is really new but really nice take on MPE Now can we have a $2000 88 key version please!
Martinelli ;)
LovinG the sounds/expressiveness
Does anybody know how it compares with the Roli products?
What is wrong with these sales people? I had to scroll to the end to hear Anthony play and is was way too short. You are so patient with these folks. Onwards to the next demo.
Anybody know what stand they have screwed into that back of the Osmose? I've been waiting for them to release something like this but maybe it's 3rd party? Nothing on the Expressive E website that Ive found.
People are using them to attach light weight shelving for cellphone or small tablets. That's all I have found in the Osmose community.
Continuum-Osmose Brackets
Im good friends with DR Mix :)
TIL what the middle pedal on a piano is for.
Its a great synth, I have one and love it. However some of the things being said here are exaggeration or just wrong. 'it reads your mind' oh yeah really! 'there is an analogue delay with all of the aliasing you would expect from an analogue delay' ha ha Just let the synth speak for itself.
I still think the Haken Continuum with its 3-axis sensing and a flat surface for key-to key slides still has it over this one
There will always be something better on the other side of the fence. For me, I'm glad that the Osmose exists, because the Continuum I couldn't afford in a lifetime! And it's still blowing the mind of every musician entering my studio. Compared to any ususal keyboard, this thing is completely nuts.
Exactly. The osmose is a long overdue trip!
Gracious Anthony as always not correcting the intro guy on adding a "T" to his name... 🤦
😎
Such a juxtaposition using the nano kontrol 2 with it. 😵
NAMM - Noteworthy Anthony Marinelli Music 🎵
You didn't ask when he could put one in your studio??😉😉
Kebu did a great use of the keybed on one Video. I'm sorry for the guy but this was horrible to listen. Stand great players to adopt it, as You said You will put your hands on it, would be great to take Your lesson!
Could you imagine if Vangelis had his hands on this amazing instrument
I almost put in a down payment on one of these last year, but I realized I didn't have a good enough space for it. Gonna sort out my layout a bit more and hopefully get one of these sooner or later.
Osmose is wayyy better to play and modulate stuff than the stupid unplayable rubbery spongy seabord.
I have both. Seanboard will be sold.
15 minutes before he lets you play it . Are these guys trying to sell or SELL ?😀
Well well John Hurd . Exists realtime expressive playing music. Exist professional musicians semi half professional musicians and kinder garden semi half playing musicians.When piano playing comes on our planet they just say to as you can play with two hands and without no +/- oct. switches either for every other styles. Interesting is possible to and is good to switch between one side to another side of the prof.fantasy keyboard and then go to piano keyboard playing or just to say going to piano sound. Hmmm something is missing. We all have to have possibility to play and have our own practice then buying this kind of professional new future specific keyboard. You can make keyboard from one octaves to all octaves at the same time we can use it like a master keyboard .Happiness . At the same time why have more keyboards if you can have only one professional keyboard and have free space in the studio room for other equipment . Sorry for my Tarzan english . I am from ..........
Just jump MIDI 2.0 and go to 3.0
The Osmose is the Mariah Carey of synth sometimes it sounds beautiful but often all the trills and warbles get irritating
Overwhelming design.. but in a good way.
The capabilities of this thing seem overwhelming in some ways.
The agressive noise gate on this video really takes away from the audio quality imho.
MAKE KEYBOARD - EXPRESSIVE OSMOSE - WITH FIVE OCTAVES OR MORE . I WILL NOT AND I CANNOT WORK WITH FOUR OCTAVES .
WoW 🤩 yes, that is it. 🫡✨.