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Exquis, a new expressive MPE and CV controller and an app
Hi all,
I'm Bruno from the Intuitive Instruments team.
I'm happy to announce our Kickstarter campaign for our new expressive and intuitive MPE + CV controller, and its dedicated while autonomous cross-platform app.
Our Exquis app will be available on iOS and thus will be compatible with Audiobus :-)
We can't wait to release them !
The link to the Kickstarter page
And a test in video by Knarf, chief Editor at the French music making media Les Sondiers.
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Here is it in image.
Looks a bit small in the promotional photos I’ve seen. Those with large fingers and hands might want to wait for the “Pro” version… 😂
The keys are larger than our previous products, and I can confirm it's the best size. If it would be bigger, you would have a launchpad touch feeling, and our instrument is much more than that, because it's dedicated to make chords and melody. Once you get the habit, like any traditional instrument, you can really develop expert gestures with high expressivity and speed.
What are the dimensions?
Are the notes in each column tuned 5ths apart with the keys in each row tuned in 3rds? I realize it’s a honeycomb and there are no columns and rows, but you know what I mean, I think.
Hello @Bruno_intutive ,
The controller looks nice. I'm wondering if it could be used for finger drumming, as a replacement of a launchpad? (I understand that it is not the main purpose of the controller, but I can see some example of that with your Dualo Touch).
A lot of apps on Ios have similar or complementary features to the app you are developping (Aum, Lk or Loopypro, for instance). Would be interesting to see videos of how Exquis work with these apps, instead of having to use it with a new app.
Also, the videos give a good idea about the controller, but not so much about the app you are developping.
This looks very good and produced with a high level of consciousness. Agree that more info on the app would be helpful in the intro video. The price point is excellent, too.
I’m deffo wondering if this would kill my Linnstrument GAS. The tiers are a bit confusing, I’ve not figured out what app version would be best, seems a bit daft complicating the offer over a non material piece of the product to be honest… is it full mpe, or missing one of the parameters?
Oooh
That’s what brought me here too. Although much more expensive, I may continue saving for the smaller linnstrument. Having learned on a keyboard, I’ve recently began learning shapes on GeoShred, which translates to Linnstrument—not in an ergonomics sense — but to some degree I could sus out theory, writing, playing with GeoShred while away from the Linnstrument, which would be quite often. Whereas that honeycomb layout wouldn’t translate, unless it’s the same as Navichord. This is why I was inquiring about dimensions and tuning.
Also, the Linnstrument has already been refined through several generations.
Just thinking out loud here.
I always forget how expensive it is. I checked out the page assuming it was roughly $700 and –SLAM– $1,100. No wonder I end up forgetting.
Sorry for my late answers, I was a bit busy.
Dimensions: 32 x 15cm and about 3 cm high (without the knobs) depending on the case material chosen.
Yes you are right:
Horizontally, in a row, you have semi-tones. Vertically, from one row to the one just under or above, you jump of a third, and you have to go left or right to get a minor or a major third. If you jump two rows, then you can find a key that is vertically aligned with your start key, and you have a perfect fifth. Then if you jump to the next row, you will have a 7th, and you would have to choose the major or the minor one.
It also means that on the same row of the perfect fifth, you have the augmented and the diminished fifth.
Yes totally. The key are a lot smoother than on a launchpad, but I have seen a few finger drummers saying after a few minutes of playing they get used to it. You can really feel confortable with a percussion playing style and an "melodic and harmonic" playing style.
Thank you for the names. Definitively a good idea. I'm not sure we will have time to deal with it during the time of the campaign, but really nice videos to make.
Yes, you are right. It was a hard decision for us, because the core of the app is already working, and when you see Sergueï playing in the video, it's not fake, he just played the same song a few times with different camera angles.
Here you can have more info about the app
The design of the app is already at about 75% of completion. But at the time we shoot the video of the campaign, we didn't have a working app with a working UI. We have working prototypes of the UI, and that's what we show in the video.
We felt it would be too much info to speak about the details of the app inside the Kickstarter campaign. But we will send a Kickstarter news soon to tell more about it.
The free lite app will be your best friend to configure and create your custom behaviour of Exquis, so it fits your needs when you use it as a standalone MPE controller, without the app. You will be able to use the app as a musical notepad, but it will have limitations such as only 4 tracks for looping.
The full version will give you the full experience of our create workflow, that we refine for 15 years, and is acclaimed by our community of previous instruments players. It's something to try. It's intuitive, fast, and allow to concentrate on music and emotion. It's perfect for spontaneous composition as well as live performance.
The Exquis keyboard has two axis of control: pressure and tilt/bend. So it miss the third one of the MPE standard. We decided not to add it because it's very hard to control, I mean to make interesting musical things, and because it would have raised to price a lot, because the multiplication of sensors constraints to change the sensor acquisition technology.
I don't know already GeoShred and Navichord, but I will have a look at them.
The only thing I can answer to your thoughts, is that our layout was invented in 2007 and we have already many thousands players using it since our first product, released in 2012.
Herbie Hancock have tried it and told us "it's one of the smartest keyboard I ever meet". (We didn't used his quote on the KS campaign because nobody of his staff answered us we have the right to use it).
Music teachers have unprecedented results with our keyboard, and there are already dozens of music school and public school which adopted it in France and in Switzerland.
Any chance this would happen to be the Lumatone Isomorphic Keyboard?
I only ask because since visiting your Kickstarter page, Jordan Rudess pops up on my Instagram feed playing a Lumatone, lol.
Or maybe the Axis 64?
Linnstrument would seem the better choice for the ability to slide between notes.
Sorry, I don't catch if there is a question in your answer ;-)
Hey Exquis lovers!
We are very proud David Hilovitz made a short video introducing the Exquis !🙂
Looks like the NI Exquis is significantly cheaper than the LinnStrument. Might be a decent way to get into the MPE controller game.
According to Grok:
— Choose the LinnStrument if you prioritize maximum expressivity, are comfortable with a higher budget ($1,149–$1,555), and want a versatile controller for advanced MPE applications, sound design, or live performance. Its five-axis control, larger playing surface, and open-source ecosystem make it the gold standard for expressive MIDI controllers, though it requires a learning curve and is less portable.
— Choose the Exquis if you’re on a budget ($275–$333), prefer a compact and beginner-friendly controller, or want an intuitive setup with app integration for quick music creation. It’s less expressive than the LinnStrument due to its three-axis MPE but offers excellent value and accessibility, especially for those new to music theory or MPE.
I'd say that the most important difference in terms of expressivity is that only the LinnStrument supports playing slides
That is rather important if you’re using a physical instrument for MPE.
@Bruno_intutive looks very cool, congrats. Most iOS users would probably want two things: a) Bluetooth connectivity - doesn’t seem to have that? b) an iOS app. I see your post from 3 years ago said “Our Exquis app will be available on iOS” but I don’t see any mention of an iOS app on your site. I love the look of this, but without an iOS app, it would be a hard pass. I no longer use desktop, but even when I did, being forced to use the Sensel Morph desktop app to tweak things really killed my flow. Lack of Bluetooth is also definitely an inconvenience for mobile musicians with only 1 port on the device.
Also, one of your old posts said you only implemented pressure and bend, but left a third out? Left out Y-axis control of cc74? But the Dave Hilowitz video mentions pressure, pitch bend and cc74 movement. Confusing.
I can confirm it supports pressure, PB and cc 74. And also that works wonderfully with the iPad.
Thnx! Need a cable though, and no iOS app for tweaking settings?
Yes, you do need a cable. And also yes, you need a MAC or a PC to tweak the settings (mainly the layout, scales and the sensitivity curves). In Discord they also said that the ios app is in the making, but no idea about timing. Also the very latest firmware has a killer sustain/freeze feature, I'll ask on Discord if I can post a video of it here.
Hey Unlink, yes you can, as the new firmware will be worldwidely announced on Monday, so it's not exactly a leak anymore ;-)
@Gavinski:
1) yes you need a cable, but I'm curious to hear from you about how many MPE devices you have already connected to your iPad through BT without noticeable latency, and how you would managed to plug a few of them at the same time.
2) Yes I understand having to rely on a desktop app is not perfect. But for 90% of normal use, you would only tweak your Exquis once, and then just play with it and with what is inside its memory.
3) May I ask you what's the DAW you are using on iPad? Do you think you would change for our App?
4) Because we are aware of the limitation of having to rely on a desktop, we are evaluating the work needed to make an app just to tweak the Exquis... .
HI Bruno, Bluetooth latency for midi is minimal. I used Roli Blocks and Sensel Morph. Latency wasn't an issue, though both controllers had other issues. Regarding number of devices connected, one device connected at a time would be enough, I'm not totally sure what the relevance of number of devices connected is, tbh. As for daw/host, no, I would stick to AUM rather than switching. My interest in an iOS app for Exquis is only about tweaking settings, not in using it as a creative environment.
Thank you for your feedback. So that's what I was thinking, you would only need an app the change the few things you cannot change without it.
About bluetooth, I'm happy to read your experience, but to be honest, at the time we started to work on the Exquis, Roli devices were about to be released, and the user experience was pretty bad, with many disconnection and other BT problems, so we decided to stay away. Maybe now this should be reconsider, but it means also to reconsider not to put a battery inside Exquis, which is, for ecological and sustainable reason, not an option for us.