A user-friendly approach to melody and harmony, the Exquis offers an alternative control method for those who want to break away from conventional keyboards. Compatible with MIDI or CV / gate.

Supplier's notes:
A controller, an app, an instrument.

The Exquis controller gives you immediate access to the rules of harmony to improvise with or without theoretical prerequisites, and offers you dimensions of expressiveness that you can quickly master. In combination with the Exquis app, a unique workflow opens up, allowing you to create an entire song in a few minutes: choose sounds, record loops, play the conductor and structure your songs in complete spontaneity.

Exquis offers an intuitive way to guide you on the right path, while allowing you to get out of it. No hassle: just choose a scale, and follow its luminous path to play in tune. Thanks to our default note layout, it's very easy to make chords; Exquis arranges notes that sound good together next to one another. You will be amazed at how harmony falls under your fingers.

Compared to a piano keyboard, on our note layout the semitones are also arranged horizontally, the harmonious (third) notes are always next to one another, and the intervals starting from any note are always the same. If you prefer, you can change the note layout, and soon even create your own tailored note layout using our editor.

On the default note layout, scales can be simply represented by a pair of light paths; whether you are a beginner, amateur or experienced musician, just follow the colors, with one or two hands, to stay in tune and improvise spontaneously. Explore many scales (major, minor, dorian, oriental...) and soon you will be able to create your own using our editor.

Our default note layout goes back to the basic logic of harmony, putting notes that sound good together (thirds) next to one another vertically. Each type of chord (major, minor, diminished, dominant etc) always forms a single and unique transposable form.

Inspired by the finesse of acoustic instruments, the keys of Exquis are both firm enough to play percussion and short notes with precision, and soft enough to modulate long notes with sensitivity. Tap, press, and tilt multiple keys independently using the MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) protocol. The encoders (clickable, with infinite and smooth rotation and with a slight resistance) allow you to control the effects of a sound being played, as well as certain essential settings in the various menus.

In order to allow musicians to create new rhythms and moods, the application natively includes exclusive features. For example, we were inspired by the workshops of Jacob Collier and will soon allow the use of tuplets (particular divisions of beats such as 1 / 5 or 1 / 7), useful for creating grooves with a drunk effect.

The Exquis keyboard is a MIDI controller compatible with all software, MIDI synthesizers and modular synthesizers. The Exquis app, although optimized for the controller, is also compatible with all MIDI controllers, and like all MIDI controllers, the Exquis keyboard is compatible with most DAWs and plug-ins.

Dear users of modular synthesizers, Exquis connects directly to your favorite devices thanks to the CV outputs: GATE, PITCH and MOD. You can also connect Exquis to your MIDI synthesizers using the MIDI IN and OUT ports.