{"id":13413,"date":"2017-11-27T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2017-11-27T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:34:28","slug":"touche-expressive-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/touche-expressive-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel your way around every sound you make with Touch\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>This new expressive controller gives you a completely new way to control the motion of your sounds and playing.<\/h4>\n<p>Controlling sound has never felt so&#8230; feely. Touch\u00e9 is an expressive controller that introduced you to &#8220;explore as yet undiscovered sonic territories&#8221;. The controller its simple, it&#8217;s effect powerful.<\/p>\n<p>The Touch\u00e9&#8217;s main feature is its smooth wooden skin which reacts to the smallest movement, the tiniest amount of pressure, or the slightest vibration to dynamically shape your music. Expressive E, the creators behind Touch\u00e9 say: &#8220;It&#8217;s so reactive that you can play by swiping your fingers lightly across its wooden surface, and you&#8217;ll hear the sound change instantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Using the new dimension of motion your instruments are transformed by applying the parameters you want Touch\u00e9 to control. Using the device&#8217;s unique design you gain 4 new dimensions of customisation; up, down, left, and right.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13414\" style=\"width: 577px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13414 lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9-577x325.jpg\" alt=\"Expressive E Touch\u00e9 MIDI controller instrument\" width=\"577\" height=\"325\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9-577x325.jpg 577w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Expressive-E-Touch\u00e9-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Underneath the Touch\u00e9 shell<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Cylinder &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Generates the force feeback<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slider &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Allows you to reduce lateral movement<\/li>\n<li><strong>Encoder &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Changes the sensitivity when turned<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It looks beautiful and sounds like a fascinating concept, but does it perform? In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicradar.com\/reviews\/expressive-e-touch\">MusicRadar&#8217;s review<\/a>, they commented: &#8220;Touch\u00e9 is a fresh, innovative and very enjoyable to use device which can bring any hardware and software to life. While the installation process and software could do with some refining\/streamlining, Touch\u00e9 and Li\u00e9 are seriously impressive and we&#8217;re really looking forward to seeing more similarly forward-thinking products from Expressive E.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h6>Get one yourself for \u20ac399 and find out more about the impressive Touch\u00e9 MIDI controller from their website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressivee.com\/buy-touche\">www.expressivee.com\/buy-touche<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Touch\u00e9\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFCDblT4Lh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new expressive controller gives you a completely new way to control the motion of your sounds and playing. Controlling sound has never felt so&#8230; feely. 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Expressive E, the creators behind Touch\u00e9 say: &#8220;It&#8217;s so reactive that you can play by swiping your fingers lightly across its wooden surface,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1047],"tags":[4505,1207,6239,9466,5047,5372,274,1205,28,258,9465],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feel your way around every sound you make with Touch\u00e9 - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This new expressive controller gives you a completely new way to control the motion of your sounds and playing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/touche-expressive-controller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feel your way around every sound you make with Touch\u00e9 - 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