5/21/2023 0 Comments Expressive e touche companyIt’s got a lovely feel you don’t get with touchscreens. In my first flight of Touché exuberance, I found myself playing the keyboard and moving my finger across the Touché at every turn. Within minutes I was controlling some of my favoured Audio Unit-based synths with the Touché. Initially, this left me scratching my head for a while, until I realised it’s of course possible to set up the Touché to send any MIDI CC to a current track. Cute… however, this will present a problem if you’re a Logic user, as you will need a VST Wrapper for VST based plug-ins if you want to see and use any this way. ![]() There are plenty of filter-based swells and far more besides, but the Lié software also allows operation of VST plug-ins from within it. Once Lié is active, as a software instrument in a DAW, it’s immediately playable as an instrument in its own right, thanks to some healthy and wonderful sounds from soft-synth experts UVI – and these included patches are there to show off what can be achieved. This does everything you wish it to do in terms of setting up controllers, whether MIDI CC or CV based. Once connected and installed, the way to get at the workings of the Touché is via the Lié plug-in. But as I would quickly find out, there’s more to it that that. The top, bottom, left and right areas tilt, lean and depress, with each having a MIDI controller or CV assigned, meaning you can assign whatever MIDI CC you want to an area, and as you apply pressure in that area, it will send out a CC or CV level. If you think of the ‘plank of wood balancing on a football’ scenario, you’ll not be a million miles away from how this works and feels. The Touché is essentially a controller, a bit like an X-Y controller, with operation happening through the ‘touch’ of the upper surface. Upon removing it from the box, you’ll find it to be reassuringly heavy.Underneath the unit are more goodies – MIDI breakout cables and possibly the most expensive braided-USB cable I’ve seen… Quality assured. Towards the lower end of the unit, there are two large and flush-mounted buttons, with an infinite-pot style encoder in the middle. Looking rather like a sustain pedal, with a large, rounded rectangular area sitting proud, the Touché looks and feels great, with a neoprene-esque finish to the base, and a nice piece of dark wood on top. Template presets for over 80 hardware synthesizers.Opening the box for the first time, you can immediately tell that this is a piece of quality equipment.Over 200 presets for popular VST software synthesizers included (third-party VST plug-in instruments not included) Over 200 professionally designed sounds included, fully mapped and ready to play.macOS 10.10 to 10.15/Windows 10, VST / AU format, hosts VST instruments only, check Lié’s compatibility. ![]() 4 axes of movement (Push Top Down, Push Bottom Down, Shift Left, Shift Right) with customizable sensitivity. ![]() Prepare to discover what your favorite instruments are really capable of. Combine multiple axes of motion and create a symphony of sound sculpture. The patented control surface of this midi controller has unparalleled sensitivity and translates the most subtle gesture into rich MIDI, CV and USB control data. Touché opens up incredible new possibilities for sound design in all your favorite software and hardware instruments. Get ready to unlock expression in your music easier than you ever thought possible.
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