M-Audio’s Oxygen Part 5

After last month’s 88-note keyboard announcement, M-Audio have revealed three additions to their popular Oxygen range of controllers. (We say ‘popular’. We made that up but as they are now at V5, someone must have bought them.) The Oxygen 25 (MKV), 49 and 61 each add Smart Controls, Automapping and a built-in Arpeggiator to an extensive feature set that includes two banks of eight velocity-sensitive trigger pads, full sized velocity sensitive keys and eight assignable rotaries. Automapping means controls are “automatically mapped for a fluid workflow” in the major DAWs while Smart Controls add extra Scale and Chord features. And the soft bundle you always get with controllers? You get Ableton Live Lite, MPC Beats, Hybrid 3 and a Mini Grand Acoustic Piano (in software we assume) and more. Prices range from £89.99 to £169.99.

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