The M-Audio Oxygen Pro 49 is a powerful, 49-key USB-powered
MIDI controller that allows you to create the music you want to make even
easier. The new Oxygen Pro controllers open up worlds of expression and
creativity and make bringing your production ideas to life more seamless than
ever. Taking feedback from users and artists alike, these controllers are the
ultimate studio and live performance tools, allowing you to keep your focus on
creating music - not programming your software. It doesn’t matter if you want
to create music on the go or in the studio, the M-Audio Oxygen Pro series is
perfectly flexible for your workflow.
Seamless DAW and Performance Control with Auto-Mapping
It’s simple to use the Oxygen Pro 49 controller with any DAW with the Oxygen
Pro 49’s automatically mapped controls such as Transport, Faders, Channel
controls (Record Arm, Solo, Mute, and Select), Pan controls, and more. Whether
you use Ableton, Pro Tools, MPC Beats, Cubase, Logic, Studio One, or any other
major DAW, just select your DAW in the Oxygen Pro 49 and select the correct
configuration in your DAW, and the Oxygen Pro 49’s controls will be completely
integrated into your DAW. It also instantly maps to all the virtual instruments
included with the Oxygen Pro 49 (Velvet, Mini Grand, Hybrid 3, TubeSynth,
Electric, Bassline). These world-class Air Music Tech plugins can be fully
controlled by the Oxygen Pro 49 and used in real time as you create and mix
your music.
Smart Controls
With Smart Chord and Smart Scale technology, creating music and transferring
what’s in your imagination to what you hear coming out of your computer has
never been easier. With Smart Chord activated, pressing a single key or pad
will play a full chord rather than just one note. The key or pad you press will
determine the root note in the chord. The rest of the chord’s properties
(Major, Minor, and Voicing - 1,3,5, 1,3,7, 1,3,5,7, etc.) are determined by the
settings you choose. Smart Chord also has a Custom Mode which lets you
determine the chord structure that will be assigned to each key by manually
playing it. For example, if you select Custom Mode, and play a 1-b3-5-b7 chord,
every key will then be assigned to play this chord structure. The note of the
key you press will serve as the root of the chord and all of the parameters can
be edited right on the Oxygen Pro 49. The Oxygen Pro 49 also features intelligent
Smart Scale technology. With Smart Scale, you can set the key bed so that only
notes in the selected scale can be played. This allows you to play within a
chosen scale without the risk of playing any ‘wrong’ notes. You can choose from
16 different scale variations when assigning a scale to the keyboard. Smart
Scale is easy to activate and deactivate and allows you to set the scale
parameters you need to keep you focused on creating.
Professional Producer Features
Built into the Oxygen Pro 49 are features that are essential to creating
modern-day pop, electronic, hip-hop, and dance music. Note Repeat and the
built-in Arpeggiator open up a world of precise music production and live sound
techniques to make your music sound professional. Note Repeat allows you to
hold down any of the custom-made M-Audio performance pads and you’ll hear a
repeated rhythmic pattern at a selectable note division. The Note Repeat
feature can be activated momentarily or can be used in Latch mode. If you
choose Momentary, holding the Note Repeat button will make the note played by
the pad automatically repeat. If you choose Latch, pressing any pad will cause
its assigned note to repeat without you having to hold down the Note Repeat
button. The built-in Arpeggiator will affect anything you are playing on the
keys from any virtual instrument in your DAW. When the Arpeggiator is
activated, the keyboard will repeatedly play the pressed keys in sequence.