MPE Deep Dive: Why Expressive MIDI Changes Everything
If you have spent any time around electronic music in the last decade, you have probably seen the letters MPE written on the side of a controller and not thought too much about them. The acronym sounds like a feature bullet. It is not. It is a quiet but fundamental reframing of what an electronic instrument can do, and once you have spent serious time playing one, going back to a fixed-velocity keyboard feels like trading a touch screen for a number pad. ...