Lié is Expressive E’s control software which partners with Touché. Expressive E’s budget version, Touché SE, comes with just a USB connection. Touché has a USB connection for use with a computer along with four CV outputs to hook it up to your analogue synths or modular setup. The pad is sprung from underneath and rocks backward and forward, as well as sliding from left to right, each with a few centimetres of travel. The oval-shaped mahogany wooden pad forms the primary medium of expressive input and is slightly shorter than the length of my hand. Instead, Touché is built around a single contact surface with both directional information and pressure sensitivity. It makes a departure from more common ergonomics like faders, ribbon sliders or wheels. The Touché is a solution that offers expressive control in a unique format. If you can tweak more of these controls in real-time, it makes for a more articulate and colourful performance. Two, however, is often insufficient for the numerous expressive controls found on today’s virtual instruments.
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Most off-the-shelf MIDI keyboards offer control over two such parameters by way of the pitch and mod wheels. The second is the input of control information to manipulate the instrument using the various MIDI CC parameters available to you. The first, of course, is the input of MIDI notes to play the instrument. There are two sides to getting the most from a virtual instrument.
It’s not often we get to review something that doesn’t quite fit the mould of an established product category - the last thing that came close would be ROLI’s unique family of keyboards - but it’s always fun when we get our hands on something truly fresh like the Touché. MIDI controllers come in all shapes and sizes but I reckon you’ve never seen one like the Touché.
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