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mAudio's Oxygen 8 is one of the more popular tools for avoiding mouse fatigue when your making music with your computer. The Oxygen 8 lets you control any 8 MIDI-assignable parameters within your favorite software programs. It's also a USB MIDI interface. USB controllers to not have any sounds built-in. They rely on your computer to generate the sounds. Using the Oxygen 8 The Oxygen 8 is great for use with software synthesizers, because it gives you instance access to 8 parameters. This gives you enough control to change synth settings on-the-fly. It won't replace the need for using your mouse when programming new sounds, but it does the job when performing. Typically, you'll want quick access to two or three synth parameters while playing, such as filter cut-off, resonance, and tuning. Doing this with a mouse would require that you stop playing, move to your computer, change a couple of settings, and then start playing again. With the Oxygen 8, you can play with one hand while you tweak with the other. The keyboard itself is small. It's a two-octave synth keyboard, which means it's great for playing basslines and leads, or for pad backgrounds, but it's not going to cut it if you're looking for piano-style action, or if you want to play Rachmaninov. There's a transpose switch, so you can quickly jump the keyboard up or down and octave to get to the range that you want. The Oxygen 8 makes it easier to mix music with popular sequencers, too. It gives you immediate access to 8 track parameters, so you can adjust the volume of each track as you play through a mix. Because of it's small size and light weight, the Oxygen 8 makes a great portable keyboard controller for making laptop music. The Oxygen 8 has been popular with laptop techno artists since they came out. They are inexpensive, and give you enough controllers to work live. People that are looking for a controller for a home studio will find the Oxygen 8 a great tool, but may prefer a larger controller with more knobs and sliders.
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