

It is only limited to your imagination when it comes to shaping new sounds and performances. But it just wants to be touched and moved, forcing you to create new expressiveness in your playing. It’s almost like a meeting of a Theremin, an expression pedal, a percussion pad and an old world bellows pump. It allows you to bring every key press to life with a combination of the four parameters and variations in touch and pressure. It may seem limited, but Touché is really only limited to your imagination in setting up the controller’s parameters. Then side to side motions can be brought in as well, adjust LFO depths, filter frequencies, pitch or just about anything you like. Combining the two at either end and at the centre of the panel completely changes how just one key press on the keyboard can be heard. Gentle, slow addition of pressure can create swells, whilst sharp tapping can give staccato effects.


Sliding your pressure along the top from front to back will blend the two functions. Pressing the rear can slowly bring in one effect, as can pressing the front of the panel. It seems pretty simple, with just four motions, but it is in the detail and reactiveness that this controller comes to life. The wooden top panel allows for movements from left to right as well as pressing on the front and back. This controller has been designed by a bunch of passionate musicians who wanted more control and more expressiveness in their playing, and that is just what you get. You can forget about the rigidity of drum pads, the limits of pan pots and the unwieldy behaviour of XY screens. Touché very quickly becomes part of the total sound and part of your performance. No longer will you just press a key and twist a knob: now you can bring some real feeling into your performance with the range of expressive functions that are simple to control and very intuitive to adapt to. Once it’s ready to go, the Touché then becomes an integral part of how your sounds emanate from your synthesiser.
#Use expressive e touche for midi to cv controller software
With the USB and MIDI connections, a handy software application allows you to set up controls to tackle just about any feature you want. With the CV option, it is very easy to assign the controllers to any function on an analogue synthesiser to improve expressiveness in all manner of ways. It has MIDI, CV and USB connections, so you are able to integrate it with just about any hardware or software synthesiser you like. Although it may look a lot like a volume pedal that has had a Swedish design team give it a makeover, the Touché is in fact a hand controller for your devices.
