Interesting, never thought of that. It would perhaps not be too dissimilar to Kickstarter when they’ve made an arse of funding and beg for more. Those scenarios are almost always “give us more cash or you get nothing” type situations. Can’t see Expressive E going down that route mind you!
I guess it depends on contracts and what materials game already been brought in fire manufacturing?
The delivery and price are if you order it now. There’ll be different batch with different delivery dates. For now they don’t seem to suffer too much delay from the Covid-19, they sent an E-mail confirming this.
No you’re right, you can’t, I thought that because @J0n35y was referring to winter as a delivery date. On the website it says available in winter but it’s probably for release to public, it’s not an indication of what’s happennng regarding the preorder delivery.
I wouldn’t be surprise that we gonna have to wait a little more but i dont have any problem with that.
…though i just hope the CAN$ is not going to drop more 
Yup me too, I’m on the same boat.
I remember that the initial release was supposed to be in winter for everyone and preorders in summer.
New update from Expressive E. UI starting to really take shape from the looks of things and the new sound demo’s are nearly exactly what I’ve been hoping to hear from Osmose.
I’ve no idea where I will put this thing when it finally ships, but it’ll sure be nice to figure it out when the time comes. Ideally, I’d like it right in front of the Continuum with which it shares so much.
I haven’t received my copy of the newsletter yet but i’m wondering if they intend to cover up the backside of that keybed
“blipskrieg” at 4:00 is my father.
Ah, I missed that announcement. The Slim Continua seem to be the ‘next version’ of the two full-fat editions that have been in productions for so long. They aren’t doing the “full size” units, but the Slims are the same lengths as the two full-sized variants. Me, I wish I could afford a Slim, as it addresses some of the design issues I had with the old version (some sort of display, and proper left and right analog outputs). Still, it isn’t going to prevent me thoroughly enjoying the Continuum I have now. It’s still one of the most important and inspiring instruments in my studio.
In Part 3 of the Superbooth Home Edition you can find:
Christophe Duquesne showing the “La Voix du Luthier” with a Continuum: 0:13:50
Nothing new here, as far as I understand. I like that approach really much to add these kind of special speakers in an electronic setup for an even more instrument like feeling. I only listened to it in a loud environment on Musikmesse Frankfurt yet. Christophe is really a smart and kind guy.
Ed Eagan showing the slim line Haken Continuum: 1:40:46
He says that the presets for Continuum, Continuum Mini and EE Osmose are compatible while they are at the same time designed for the specific instrument. Interesting.
(the video on the superbooth site shows markers for the different parts in the video)
What is the last date they mentioned? Delivery still in june? Or more july? October?
The current newsletter. I am looking so much forward to the instrument - although I have to wait a little bit longer. The final design looks fantastic to me - both in design and functionality.
update
Suspected this would be pushed out to Q4. I’m in the 1st early bird phase and expecting this to be a 2021 delivery to be honest
I’m actually fine with waiting until mid-fall 2020 instead of this summer as originally planned. This gives me more time to knock the rust off my piano skills. Granted I was never a virtuoso on the piano in the first place, so the de-rusting process should be fairly quick for me. 
This book happens to be on sale today so I’m ordering. It contains 12 piano etudes as part of the study of the Indian Melakarta system. I cannot think of a more appropriate piano lesson book to work with on the Osmose.
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/elements-of-indian-music-sheet-music/20820986
Interesting details.
The stuff about key branches is the first time i read about their design philosophy on this:
key branches
The long black extensions behind the key is part of the key mechanism itself, forming one long lever. We call these extensions “branches”. With their high-sensitivity settings, chromatic glissandos and new approaches to playing are now possible.
Also interesting news is the material science technique using a “microscopic polycarbonate texture” to give both a smooth feel and a grip at the same time to the keys.
And heres an enlarged view of the angled mod and pitch controls:
Was also looking at the connections on the back:
Interesting that this book is for both keyboard and classical guitar practice. I know you play guitar too, Governor Silver. Mel Bay strikes again. I found a sample page:
And two audio samples:
Classical Guitar
Piano
How do you like the angled mod controls? I think I like the straight ones better.
Delivery mid fall… oof. Time to enjoy the summer outside I guess!
Final design looks great to me…regretting a bit that I didn’t preorder now, especially seeing those ETAs.
I’ll probably use this book on multiple levels.
Source of new - for me - compositional ideas. Maybe take an excerpt of one of the 12 etudes and enter that into a sequencer as MIDI data, mess around with the MIDI, etc.
Source material for playing with the ornamentation that Osmose allows - note bends, glisses, etc. Melakarta ragas are usually played with ornamentation, but for compatibility with presumably acoustic piano, I’m sure the book de-emphasizes the ornamentation - so it’ll be fun experimenting with putting it back into the music.
Something to practice on the keyboard, for keyboard playing technique in general. Of course I won’t rule out learning the same etudes on guitar. As an aside, I’ve learned bits of the Bach Inventions on both instruments, although the guitar versions that I have were transposed to better fit into the guitar’s slightly more limited pitch range.
