Oxi One Sequencer Tutorial - Getting Started
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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In this video we'll go over everything you need to know to get started with the Oxi One Sequencer.
(In the video I refer to each sequencer as "track", but each of the four is it's own independent sequencer and not a "track" of one sequencer)
00:00 - Opening
00:35 - Intro
01:13 - Encoders
02:41 - Track Settings
03:32 - Load/Save
04:09 - Keyboard Mode
05:10 - Clear Pattern
05:20 - Quick Save
05:27 - Step Sequencer
06:19 - Multitrack Mode
07:00 - Mono Sequence
07:21 - Sequence Length
07:51 - Undo
08:48 - Follow
09:00 - Offset
09:39 - Glide
10:01 - Step Octaves
10:39 - Y Div
11:39 - CV/Gate Outputs
13:35 - More Sequence Length
14:00 - Poly Mode
14:35 - Chord Mode
16:43 - Roll
17:32 - More Multitrack Mode
18:24 - Arranger mode
19:14 - Quantize Settings
20:56 - Muting
21:23 - Alternative Muting
22:28 - Some Music (Everything Will Be Okay)
Special thanks again to Oxi for providing the sequencer for these videos.
Just by watching this video, while not owning an Oxi One, I can already tell that a) this is a very good tutorial and b) this sequencer has been designed with excellent usability in mind. Really warming up to the idea of buying one in the near future.
Very comprehensive OXI One tutorial. Needed this one. Thanks for sharing! Nice music!
This video is really well explained. It's helpful!
Thanks so much for doing this. This has become my go to every time I get stuck learning this thing. The Chapters really help save time 🙏🏽👍🏽
Fantastic tutorial and an really great song !!
Great tutorial, thank you
Fantastic tutorial - just trying out my Oxi for the first time and following along, and you really hit all the essential points to get a new user started. Keeping it bookmarked for quick reference as I learn the ins and outs of this sequencer!
thanks. really clear inroduction that was v helpful
Great job, thank you!!!
This is great. I never knew what the follow thing was to stay on the page you’re editing. Phew! That’s gonna save me some frustration
I just got my Oxi One- I still haven't unpacked it yet- I am feeling a bit anxious about the whole thing. However, I will say that of all the videos I have watched, yours seems to be the most clear and concise tutorial. I plan on having this open for reference as I get started. I hope you will make beginning videos for each of the sequencer modes.
Thanks!
Great tutorial mate
Helpful, thank you : )
mine is on the way. excited! I also plan on using the grid for my norns. thx for the awesome video!
Best Video on the oxi one. Thank you!👍
I'm currently deciding between this and the Hapax so this video was super helpful. I don't have much room for gear so the smaller form factor of the One is def appealing.
Yeah this one is really great, and it is so much smaller than say the Beatstep pro. It fits really nicely on my desk. And its great for travel as well, it comes with a nice little padded travel case as well.
This os probably one of the most comprehensive tutorial about oxi one. Thank you so much. It would be great if you get deeper into some of the advanced features or modes of it.
Thanks! Yes I definitely plan to. But coming up next is actually a video for the Oxi Coral!
Nice! That clarified a few things I've wondered about but have been too lazy to look up in the manual so far. 😅
Yeah, the manual is very daunting.
@RobotsAreRed Thanks for the video.
There are still a few important things that I do not know and no reviewer talks about.
I would use this device as a step sequencer for my DAW. And my DAW will send the midi information to each of the desired midi devices through its midi tracks -> midi interface -> midi DIN cable -> midi device.
1 - How is the timeline of a track (a track in a DAW) represented on this device's pads?
Are there multiple ways in which this device can represent the timeline of a DAW's track?:
- a single horizontal row on a single page?
- a single horizontal row on multiple pages?
- multiple horizontal rows on a single page?
- multiple horizontal rows on multiple pages?
2 - How is one bar's worth of time (a bar on a track inside a DAW) spread over the pads of this device?
In every video I watched, 1 pad o the midi controller corresponds to 1/4 beat's worth of time length in a DAW.
Into how many smaller divisions/pads can 1 bar (a bar inside a DAW), be divided? Onlyv16? 32? 64? 128?
Can I have a higher resolution than 16 pads per bar?
Can I have 64 pads per bar (16 pads per beat)? Or 128 pads per bar (32 pads per beat)?
3 - If it it is possible to have 128 divisions/pads per bar, will 1 bar encompass all the pads on 1 single grid/page (8 horizontal rows X 16 pads each) / with other words - will the blinking light of the currently playing position, when reaching the last pad at the end of the horizontal row, move from that horizontal row to the next one above or below it? - that would be great!
Or it will have to cross to the next page (if the page is activated) => 1 bar (a bar's worth of time length in a DAW) will only use one horizantal row on each of the 8 pages (16 pads per page x 8 pages = 128 pads)?
4 ‐ How many pages are there? 8?
5 - Is each horizontal row "hardwired" to a different midi channel and the above mentioned things are not possible?
Can multiple tracks (each on different midi channels) inside the DAW be controlled by this device at the same time (different horizontal rows triggering notes on different midi channels)?
6 - How many midi channels can this device use simultaneously?
Thanks!
1. The device does not show what is happening in your daw, it doesn't receive that information for visualizing like say the launchpad would.
2. You can divide the speed from one or two bars (I don't remember off the top of my head) all the way up to 1/32 triplets. You can easily change your sequence length to start and end anywhere from 1-128.
3. Yes. And there is a "follow" feature where it will update your sequence page when it is played. You can turn that on and off (on by default).
4. Yes, up to 8 pages.
5. Nothing is hard wired. With multitrack mode you can have each row assigned to a different midi channel and just sequence in the triggers/gates, and you can press and hold on that specific square and change the note of it. Matriceal mode also allows you to send sequences to four different midi channels from one of the four main sequences.
6. The device can support up to 32 midi channels with it's one adapter. You can actually use all 32 at once if you use the multitrack mode on all four sequences.
Hi, thanks for the demo. Question Can you copy and paste a section of steps of a track?
Yes, you can C/P each page of steps to another page.
Hi great vid just got an oxi how do you parameter lock notes per step? Thanks
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but you can press and hold on any step and change parameters with the knobs then on that step.
Great tutorial! I just got one and I can’t figure out how to punch in notes in the multitrack mode. I only manage to set the same note on the respective track row and the adjusting the notes with the encoder. Can’t find it anywhere and I don’t know what I’m missing.
with the multitrack mode, yeah each "drum hit" will be assigned a certain base note (you can change by holding down the orange row button and turning your root note). You can change the individual steps to different notes by holding that step and adjusting with the encoder like you said. If you wanted to do something more musical with notes, would it make more sense to not use the multitrack mode? Not sure what you are using it for?
@@RobotsAreRed Thanks for the quick response. I scrolled down the manual, and there it eas, no piano roll🙄. But I found making melodies with the euclidean mode and then adjusting the individual pitch with a scale very useful.
@@OttoMilde Yeah no piano roll on the multitrack mode. I like to think of it similar to the drum rack in ableton where I don't have to do too much pitch adjustment on anything in the multitrack.
Do you need an analog synthesizer or can you just create sounds only with the oxi one?
you need an external synthesizer of some kind. Be that a modular synth, a synth with midi, or even an instrument in your DAW
I have a couple of questions regarding the arranger section. when I save a new pattern (like the way you done it) and edit then save again, it's not recognising new pattern. Also if I have pattern 2 only as 1-32 and pattern 1 as 16 - 64, it plays pattern 2 twice even though I have set it to loop only once, is this normal? Thanks
The loop amount goes by how many bars you have set in the quantize section. So 1 would be 1 unit (which may be 4 bars at default). Also make sure you save your pattern before switching patterns.
@@RobotsAreRed I have just realised I have to adjust quantize setting, but weird though as it makes the longer pattern 1, play only half the pattern then. Am I missing something else? So I can’t have one pattern at say, 16-64 and pattern 2 at 16-33 for like a fill or something? I saved pattern. If I do what you done (if doing it correctly that is) I and duplicating pattern by pressing save and new pattern while is arranger mode and then go back and edit pattern and save but I’ve. He led and when I do this, new pattern isn’t loaded so I have to do that manually.
@@Indianabones007 I'm confused as to why you are starting your pattern at 16. I believe the lowest setting for the quantization is 1 bar, so that would be 16 steps long (if in the default divisor 1/16). So if you have something from 16-64, that would be set at 3 repeats and your fill would be set at 1 repeat.
When you duplicate the pattern, you have to then select the new pattern, the pattern you duplicated stays selected.
@@RobotsAreRed yeah sorry, confused myself! I meant I bar if 16, default! I get what your saying but mine isn’t doing that or I’m doing something wrong, it’s playing the 1 bar twice when I only select 1 bar. I’ll have another look tonight.
I’ve duplicated the pattern and it’s selected. Again must be doing something wrong! Just starting to get fed up trying to get these simple things down on this sequencer. Hopefully get there , thanks again dude
@@RobotsAreRed might just be getting somewhere now, thanks dude!
I can’t get any drum tracks to match up with my multi track. The drum instruments aren’t right. How do I match the oxi to drum instruments
My head still can’t get around this odd way of sequencing.
Would still need a external keyboard.
It was weird at first, but now I really enjoy the keyboard layout on it, it gets me thinking a little differently.
Haha at Bell synthesizer sounds like a cell phone alarm and it's stressing me out 🤣
I was going for tension, so I guess that's a success? haha
Good turorial, but that chord sound though 😳
Yeah it is a bit too saturated and compressed, :/
I quick saved like you show, many times and I can’t find it to load. What does it name the quick saved project if is it somewhere else. I saved it and definitely am Not seeing it
My multitrack layout looks entirely different in keyboard/preview mode.
Having trouble assigning the instruments to the notes for the drums
You may need to check if you need a firmware update.
I have a keystep pro 37. Do I really need an oxy one or deluge??
I have the beatstep pro along with the Oxi One. They both work great together and work a bit differently. I personally like being able to choose the Keys and scales on the Oxi. And if you want polyphony with modular, you can have up to 8 voices of polyphony from one sequence. The arranger (song) mode is also really great, and can get more granular than a keystep or beatstep can with that, and more visual feedback programming the song.
If you are using up all of your keystep channels on patches and need more sequencing, then I would say definitely yes.
If you have a smaller setup, the keystep will probably do just fine.
Personally I have the Oxi, a beatstep pro, and basic keystep. I use them all. If I had the Oxi and a keystep pro, I would probably end up using the keystep more for the performative things, and use the Oxi for the rest of the sequencing. The Pipe is also great!
@@RobotsAreRed Thank you so much for the advice. I finally pulled the trigger on an Oxi One once I learned it works REALLY well with iPads, has a hidden Grid function for my Norns Shield, and works well with DAWs too. I am keeping the Keystep Pro as it works great with my Waldorf Blofeld and extends the key set for my Digitone too.
how do i enter euclidean sequencer? i want to use each track on multimode, so i want euclidean sequencer on all rows
I'm taking a look at the manual and it looks like you press shift+random to get into the euclidean mode. See page 36 of the manual.
I don’t understand that keyboard view. Why are the red notes disabled?
it depends on the key/scale you choose. If you just choose chromatic, there will not be any red notes.
this seems more intuitive than korg's 64 sequencer.
Tutorial was good, music at the end absolutely destroyed it.
"Destroyed it" as in good, right?
Appreciate your video but your music is far too loud when your talking!
My bad, I ducked the music quite a bit when the talking hit, but I think I had the instruments too loud from the start. Thanks for the feedback.
@@RobotsAreRed cool mate! Yeah drum kick was mega loud and the chords was overwhelming a bit. Thanks again though, definitely need help with arranger side.
@@Indianabones007 Oh I know what I did, I left those instruments at the production levels from the song at the end (I used the same instruments), oops.
thanks, too bad you don't go in to midi cc
Thanks! Yeah I need to go into that more for a later video.
@@RobotsAreRed ok gonna keep an eye out and subscribe for that :)
i bought one and honestly the ui is so poor they badlly need a ui designer.