French finesse undergirds this technologically advanced controller from Expressive E, affording unmatched control, precision, and exploration of your sound — analog, digital, or both. Aptly named, Touché is a multi-touch expression controller with four vectors of interaction across three axes. This controller is highly reactive and deeply customizable: range, sensitivity, and more can be tailored to your workflow across endlessly assignable parameters, opening new doors to catapult your sonics into new dimensions. Plus, its sleek interface provides satisfying tactility with each tap, glide, and push across each vector of modulation. Loaded with plenty of performance presets and mapping templates, Touché is pre-engineered to work with most major DAWs, VSTs, and instruments, with TRS MIDI, CV, and USB connectivity allowing for unmatched integration in most setups. From subtle to severe, this innovative controller lets you get hands-on with your sound, impressing synthesists with its near-limitless possibilities.
Form, function, and flexibility
Touché subverts expectations as it reinvents them when it comes to modulation. Its simple shape and streamlined formfactor conceal a world of detailed, finely tuned possibilities. From its starting position, parameters can be assigned to both directions of the X-axis, doubling your opportunities for modulation while maintaining a sensitive response profile that can be easily customized. Similarly, Z-axis control is divided into front and back portions, each of which can be activated independently, simultaneously, or progressively from one end to the other. Touché also features responsive surface sensitivity, letting you tap, glide, and push across the top for smooth or percussive accentuations, easily tailored, toggled, and assigned to match your playing.
So much more than MIDI
Interoperative potential abounds with Touché, armed with an array of connectivity options. While it’s USB-powered, the USB-B port can double for connection with your DAW or computer-based rig. Four CV-Gate jacks handle each vector of expression, allowing you to integrate Touché into Eurorack and analog setups, completely reinventing your approach to classic synthesis. There are also two TRS MIDI ports — one in and one out — enabling elaborate MIDI-driven, dynamic performances across other instruments, controllers, and DAW-based configurations. Touché even comes boxed with two MIDI breakout cables with 5-pin DIN adapters, letting you get straight to work with whatever instrument you choose.
Deep control, deeper editing
Given the flexibility of Touché, the controller features an internal memory that houses more than 250 presets and 80+ mapping programs, designed to plug and play with most popular DAWs, plug-ins, instruments, and more. Expressive E’s own Lié mapping editor is also included, letting you customize sensitivity profiles, response curvatures, and any other parameter to save presets for future use across devices. Plus, Touché comes bundled with UVI Workstation, so you can dive straight into mastering your modulation with just a computer for expedited expressivity.
Features:
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Multi-touch expression controller allows for unmatched expressivity across 4 vectors and 3 axes
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2 independent control variables on X and Z axes allow for complex, progressive, and simultaneous modulation
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Ergonomic form factor provides satisfying tactility and sturdy in-hand feel
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Extensive connectivity includes TRS MIDI I/O, 4 CV-Gate outs, and USB-B for use with any setup
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Fully customizable sensitivity profiles and response curves let you craft, tailor, and save presets for future use with any compatible device
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250+ onboard presets and 80+ control mappings let you plug and play with many DAWs, instruments, plug-ins, and more
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Included Lié software lets you go deep on editing and personalizing control maps
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Bundled UVI Workstation means you can get to modulating ASAP