The Expresseur is the first step of a global project : the creation of new Musical Instrument Assisted by Computer.
The main objective is to propose new instruments, easier to play than traditional ones. The end-user is somebody who wants to play music with others, but does not have the knowledge-time-capacity to learn traditional instruments. The instrumentalist must be able to manage a maximum of musical parameters for an interactive and "live" playing, without wondering about the complex chromatic-pitch management.
The first component is the Expresseur software itself. This software detects triggers from instruments using Hardware configuration, processes all inputs according to the parameters (Score, Translator, ...), and use the Hardware configuration for the sound rendering.
Other components of the projects are the hardware instruments. Even if it is possible to use Expresseur with basic interface (computer or Midi keyboard) and synthetic sounds (VST, SF2, ...), the objective is to propose instruments with larger expressiveness (ergonomic, audio material, ...) With these new instruments, the project will be complete, including :