Intuitive Instruments Exquis MIDI & MPE Controller

Intuitive Instruments, the French company behind the awardwinning Exquis expressive MPE key board, unveils a triple update that turns its flagship instrument into the ultimate, lightweight and compact creative hub for Ableton Live users

Unlike padcentric grid controllers optimised for fingerdrumming and loop triggering, Exquis responds like a real acoustic instrument: its 61 soft silicone keys, each with independent fivedimension MPE control, provide the nuanced touch and emotional depth needed for flowing melodies and harmonically rich chords.

Exquis RemoteControl Script for Ableton Live
The brandnew Pythonbased Remote Script integrates Exquis seamlessly into Lives native controller family, delivering Launchpadstyle Session control and an instrumentgrade expressive touchcourtesy of its MPE twistthat makes playing melodies and chords feel effortlessly natural:

• Session view create, launch and delete clips or scenes without touching the mouse.
• Track mastery arm, select, mute and solo any track, and get immediate access to volume, pan and aux sends
• Expressive performance chords, melodies and drum racks flow through all 61 soft silicone keys with independant and
  polyphonic 5 dimensions controls.
• Handson transport & harmony set Lives tempo, root note and scale directly from Exquis.
• Pertrack note layouts recall any of the keyboards eight onboard layouts (or your own customs) automatically when you change tracks instantly reconfiguring Exquis into a specific instrument for every track, be it a bass, a percussive grid, or a soaring solo lead.
• Onetouch Favourites call up Live racks or plugin presets in a heartbeat via Exquis exclusive favourites system.
• Device & mix control tweak any parameter on any device and any track with using four push encoders and ten action buttons.

The script installs like any official Ableton controller template and requires Live 12.

Firmware v2.1 PolyHold Sustain & Developer Mode
In keeping with Intuitive Instruments drive for constant refinement, firmware v2.1 delivers two headline additions:

PolyHold Sustain let chords ring out indefinitely while the onboard arpeggiator continues to evolve.
Developer Mode an open MIDI API that exposes every hardware elementkeys, en
coders, action buttons, RGB LEDs and even onboard memoryso developers can remap behaviours, write custom DAW scripts or integrate Exquis into bespoke performance setups.

Exquis App v2 New factory preset list and 1 500 Curated Presets
The companion software for macOS/Windows receives new factory preset list featuring handpicked, layoutoptimised patches for Surge XT,Vital and Decent Samplerand a vast soundlibrary expansion bringing 1 250 new sounds tuned for Surge XT, Vital, Decent Sampler, Baby Audio Atom, Beatsurfing Random, Dawesome Abyss, Zyklus, Audiomodern Soun dbox and Newfangled Audio Pendulate now 1 500 presets in total.

Keyboard:

• Class Compliant MIDI Controller: plugnplay
• MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) or polyphonic aftertouch modes
• 61 soft silicone keys, RGB backlight
• Expressivity: velocity on & off, pitchbend (X), CC74 (Y), aftertouch (Z)
• 4 clickable encoders, 10 hard silicone action buttons
• Integrated MPE Arpeggiator: 6 speeds, 6 patterns and sustain mode
• 32 scales and 8 note layouts stored in memory
• MIDI OUT via USB or DIN and CV GATE, PITCH (Xaxis), MOD (Zaxis) MIDI Clock (arpeggiator sync) IN/OUT via USB or DIN
  Exquis App (from macOS 10.11 / Windows 7 x64):
• Looper (11 tracks, 44 loops) & Sequencer (11 events)
• VST and AU plugin host
• Create and edit scales and note layouts in Exquis memory Edit MIDI values (buttons and encoders)
• Edit sensitivity curves (velocity/X/Y/Z)