Next-gen MPE: Expressive E adds smarter control, $999 MIDI keyboard

Expressive E is making its expressive, multi-dimensional keyboards more accessible, with 49- and 61-key controller Osmose options starting at $/€999. And across the full range, the company’s sound ecosystem is expanding with updated software, including the new Ctrl-e platform for sound. That means it’s easier to afford and get started with these unique MPE keyboards, and you’ll more quickly find ready-to-play sounds.

Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE

Oliver Greschke’s Elastic OSC continues to blossom as a mobile instrument. Packed with open-source algorithms from Mutable Instruments’ Plaits as oscillators, Elastic OSC has added powerful modulation and now supports Android and MIDI Polyphonic Expression.

Peter Kirn - March 26, 2026

Expressive playing with MPE, demystified

MPE, MIDI Polyphonic Expression, can make playing digital instruments expressive in ways we’ve desired for decades. It’s just down to understanding everything you can do – and composer Josh Madoff has a fantastic tutorial and Osmose demos that make this technology more accessible to anyone.

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2025

Here’s Roger Linn with advice on developing expressive gestures

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2025

Rhizomatic Synestia, an otherworldly effect from Absynth, Plasmonic creator

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2024

Geert Bevin, MPE innovator, tours Osmose keyboard and expression

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2024

Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov

Roman Filippov - December 13, 2023

Sequential’s Trigon-6 gets the desktop treatment – and update adds MPE

Peter Kirn - August 15, 2023

BLEASS Voices is the all-in-one vocal transformer for Mac, PC, and iOS we were waiting for

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2023