#Midiman oxygen 8 software#
The MIDI connection is made via USB – cable supplied, no other MIDI interface necessary – which can also “parasitically” power your Oxygen 8, and the rotary knobs can be programmed to tweak specific software parameters – volume, cutoff, resonance, envelope and so on – by assigning the appropriate Continuous Controller (CC) numbers to each knob. The front panel also features handy octave up and down buttons (3 octaves) and a MIDI Select switch that acts as the gateway to programming bliss. In addition, its front panel houses eight assignable knobs, or rotary controllers, which can be used to tweak parameters within your music software applications those can include soft synths and samplers, VST Instruments, audio software – you name it. Here’s what you’re getting when you respond to its seductive appeal.īasically, the Oxygen 8 is a 25-key, velocity-sensitive MIDI keyboard controller with a pitch wheel, a modulation wheel and an assignable volume/data slider. As a friend pointed out, “It just seems to say, ‘Buy me.'” And at $179.95 list, it offers its services without the need for undue hand-wringing.
And why not? Small, sleek, sexy and silver, the Oxygen 8 appeals as much to the eye and the desktop aesthetic as it does to the burgeoning needs of the laptop-performance community, for whom portability and control – not sound content – are the main criteria in selecting a keyboard.Īlthough a few other controllers on the market boast similar, even expanded, features to the O8 – the Evolution MK-249c and the MIDITech Midicontrol, to name two – none of them symbolize the movement toward the all-in-one, computer-studio-to-go quite with the panache that the O8 does. The major chains are wildly back-ordered, and the major mail-order retailers proudly flash their new prize charge in every gear-porn flyer and catalog. Midiman’s Oxygen 8 USB MIDI keyboard controller is one of those pieces of gear that everyone – DJs, producers and even nonkeyboardists – seems to want. MIDIMAN Oxygen 8 – keyboard controller – Evaluation
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