M-Audio Oxygen 49 - Can it store riffs?

[jpjeffery]

As per the subject line, really. I've been discovering (or at least, reading about) the potential of sending MIDI signals from my Boss GT-8 effects pedal board to an external MIDI device to make it do something. Cool! I had no idea! (I'm just a guitarist)

As the Oxygen keyboard is the only external MIDI device I have I'm wondering what its potential is. My real-life use would be to kick off playback of the strings arrangement at the end of Bowie's 'Life On Mars' but I'm not convinced the Oxygen quite has the features required (i.e. to store about four bars of eight quavers of descending notes plus more).

So, am I right? Or is it actually possible?

TIA!

[PCMS]

Hi There,

You would need a sequencer (either hardware or software). You could get one like SONAR Home Studio for under a hundred bucks.

The Oxygen 8 is a controller and does not record MIDI data.

[jpjeffery]

Thank you, PCMS. I have Cubase SE and Ableton so presumably I could do the same thing with either of them.

Once I've got something in one of them how easy is it to transfer such data to a keyboard that has a sequencer in it (i.e. my keyboardist's midi keyboard - model unknown by me at this time)

[PCMS]

Either of those apps will work. Once you have the data recorded you would need to save as a SMF (standard MIDI file) and then put that into your hardware sequencer for playback.

Some workstation keyboards have USB ports so you can plug a key drive right into it. Others have disk drives etc,

[jpjeffery]

Cool. Ta muchly.

[garww]

The sequencer records and plays the MIDI "data" - many of the hardware sequencers have limited capability. Then, you have to send the MIDI data to a sound module that generates audio. And then, on to the amps/speakers.

So, you can config a computer with the DAW to act as a sequencer, and things like VSTi, soundbanks, and GSWavetable act as software sound modules.

The MIDI keyboard might be limited in the sequencer and sound capability, but check it out. Many will do the trick.