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With all of the hype surrounding the Osmose., I looked a little closer at the synth engine Eagan Matrix behind the Osmose. It looks like to me that Montage's Motion Sequencer + Control Assign, specifically the ability to assign motion sequences as the source in controller assignments gives us for all practical purposes very similar if not more functionality as that found in the Eagan Matrix. I know the Montage/Modx doesn't make any MPE or Midi 2.0 claims but Motion Sequences + Control Assign + Aftertouch gives as much MPE as is practical. I don't have any Eagan Matrix compatible instuments, but if there is any one on this forum that is sufficiently familiar with the Motion Sequencing + Controll Assign and Eagan Matrix can you confirm?
I understand that MPE/Midi 2.0 gives all of this midi control on a key per key basis, but in real world music scenarios what Motion Control offers accomplishes the same thing and from looking at the Eagan Matrix editor, The Montage/Modx approach is far more musician friendly! Can some one knowledgable about both engines comment?
Posted : 22/01/2023 5:21 pm
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Very Generally Speaking:
Motion Sequencer and SuperKnob are well suited to slower, time based evolvements of changes, over durations larger than a couple of beats, up to many bars long.
They are not well suited to the tight envelopes we're used to exploiting with rapid control deviations - which is those thing that MPE and the Osmose specialise in.
One of the key indicators of this, if you don't want to lose your mind discovering this (as I did), is the lack of velocity and aftertouch mappings to the Motion Sequencer's and SuperKnob's qualities. The other is that there's far many more multipliers of Motion Sequencer timings than their are dividers... you can "divide" the rate by 75%, 66% or 50%. But you can multiply it by anything up to 6400%
IOW... Motion Sequences and the SuperKnob are great for evolving changes, over many notes. And are. They're best thought of as "hands free", inter-connectable knob twiddlers, whereas MPE via keyboards with multiple axis of responsiveness are better thought of as enabling envelope modifications at time slices of individual notes.
There is a somewhat regular user of this forum high up in the delivery list of the Osmose and may already have his.
Posted : 23/01/2023 4:36 am
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I didn't see that coming...
Posted : 23/01/2023 6:44 am
