From what I understand, they’ll be doing a special price fix for us with pre orders. I’m not really sure why they would change the web price as I would still expect import Vat to be charged regardless!
I wonder if their sales system just needs a going over to be able to display dollars, euros and pound prices?
@J0n35y That’s how I understood from the info you obtained from them, although, as you say, it seems an odd move if it is exclusively increased for new UK buyers as they(new UK buyers) really will be paying the VAT twice.
@Jukka I’m super chuffed I got onboard early doors if they are good to their word and adjust our UK pre-order price accordingly, as it’ll work out just about half price of if I was buying now.
@PekeDorty I’m really looking forward to this as well. I have made a pact with myself that this is the only gear purchase I will make in '21.
I’m going into a 7 week bio-secure bubble for work in a couple of weeks. It would have been absolutely incredible to be able to take the O with but that ain’t gunna happen. Anyhoo, all good things to those who wait, as they say…
Are you talking about the January 25th Update ?
That said mid-April for launch production and first shipments, though it sounded like production will ramp up from that point. That update is a while back, so there should be more info soon.
Do you have other information ?
I’m expecting another update is about to drop.
I’m just working with faulty memory here. I thought I recalled someone somewhere saying June’s the new expected date, but don’t rely on me.
Do you work there ? 
This is starting to get suspicious, haha
No ! I would have known about the new feature. But i do get psychic about things i’m really excited about and tuned into. I jumped on the Hydrasynth day one, for instance. I’ve done the psychic thing with good friends a lot, too.
But blipson also did some prediction too, saying June !
getting there…
June should come around fairly soon. Has been a long old haul!
Pressure weighted portamento - the feature I never knew I needed till now…
One downside of the Osmose is that every other keyboard you play after will seem really basic.
We’ll all be wiggling our fingers on the keys and wondering why it’s not making any difference.
Haha, I was joking, but that was pretty impressive ! The day you wake up really excited about an Octatrack 2, dont hesitate to create a topic
September ! 
I hope, there will be a switch for real time decisions…
@Jukka since you work for Expressive E ( 
) could you share if there’s any plans for a 61+ key version?
That portamento feature seems awesome! This keyboard really calls to the piano player in me
2:42 is a good example of the kind of phrasing - in my case some Persian melodies that i’d learned - that I’ve tried to do on my Voyager and other keyboards, but the sensitivity just wasn’t there. The grace notes in that kind of music are really subtle.
The track that inspired me to seek out Persian music lessons. Yup, pretty excited that I’ll soon get a keyboard that’ll let me play grace notes with that kind of subtlety. Sounds like that vocal patch can be tweaked to sound more like a ney too.
I reckon 49 keys is simply to test the waters with this new format/technology. No point at this stage going 61 or higher if there are technical/QC issues to iron out. Although all reports from Expressive E seem very positive in that regard, but only time in users hands will tell for sure. So i’m sure other models will follow, but not that soon.
two of them = 98 keys
If he says September then I’m thinking I’ll get mine this coming Winter at earliest. Well, actually, that’s just a repeat of what Expressive E themselves stated in one of their update emails.
I like the shoutout to us “punk keyboardists” that SonicTalk. So Nick, Ty, and Co are counting on us punk players to come up with the unexpected, eh? We won’t let ya down!
The last update email says first shipments in June. Haven’t heard any change to that as yet. I hope it’s not September…
Does anybody know if there will be (really good) Piano presets in Eagen Matrix?