Oxi Instruments E16 MIDI-Controller

kokosnuss · February 8, 2026, 11:11am

They work together. You can assign different ranges though.
F.e. Filter resonance and frequency.
Still trying to figure out other use cases for it.
You can also set on same knob push button, to go to Default state. Good for transitions.
Also don’t forgot that you can assign a knob to MW, PB, AT, BC as well. And all of them can have 4 additional destinations.

Fatherbingo · February 8, 2026, 11:56am

Got it! thanks for that.

UnUnUnium · February 11, 2026, 8:35pm

Curious about the resolution of the E16 - the Neuzeit Drop, for example, reportedly has 14 ‘usable’ bits from its ADC, and apparently in 14-bit cc mode with certain encoder settings it can actually increment a value between 0 and 16,383 in values of +/- 1. Is that possible on the E16?

chapelierfou · February 11, 2026, 8:50pm

Well, any encoder can do this, but the question is more, how many rotations you’d have to do. I doubt there is any encoder in the world that has 16383 values across one rotation.
But in the end, I guess it’s not that much important, when you combine feeling + diameter + acceleration. I mean, nowadays encoders have a pretty good accuracy.
Or am I missing something ?

UnUnUnium · February 11, 2026, 9:32pm

Ah yes, of course makes perfect sense - my understanding was that on some devices the converters limit the resolution, and that software interpolation precludes the ‘single number increment’ - otherwise, as you say, you’d have to turn a ridiculous number of rotations.

But I suppose the acceleration scheme means the speed of the rotation determines the span of the increment?

ronth · February 12, 2026, 10:27am

Is the resolution of both versions the same?

sradcliffe · February 14, 2026, 12:30pm

Hi, thanks for the instructions for linking up the DT and DN with the E16. Transport does not seem to be working on the DN, You mentioned changing port 2 to Thru, I can’t seem to find a way to do this in the app or on the device? Any advise?

aley · February 14, 2026, 1:45pm

I saw they updated this week but didn’t see anything about midi feedback, did I miss that in the release notes?

Enthalpi · February 14, 2026, 2:10pm

You’re right, it doesn’t figure in the release notes but it is implemented now.

aley · February 14, 2026, 2:25pm

Have you had it working? Weird it’s not in release notes. Thought that was one of the main things people were asking for.

twinor · February 14, 2026, 2:41pm

It was in the previous release note:

OXI E16 Firmware 0.5.6 Release (04/02/2026)

Add: Midi learn
Add: Midi feedback
Add: Transmit all Global Setting
Add: Remember last page
Add: “Swap Destination” push action

Fix: Recording jitter, clear, and page-specific playback
Fix: Set to default issues
Fix: Several menu improvements
Fix: “Transmit all” discrepancies

Change: Migrate non-MIDI push/turn actions to Special Menu

You can track the releases here if you don’t want to hand on Discord Releases · OXI-Instruments/OXI-E16-Releases · GitHub

aley · February 14, 2026, 2:49pm

I did not see that, maybe I was reading wrong release notes

aley · February 14, 2026, 2:50pm

Going to try it when I get home thanks for the post.

Enthalpi · February 14, 2026, 2:54pm

Yes

twinor · February 14, 2026, 3:44pm

They released a new one a week later. Manuel is really keeping busy with frequent E16, Oxi one Mk1 and 2 releases now.

OXI E16 Firmware 0.5.7 Release (11/02/2026)

New Things:

Push action LED ring indicator

Fixes:

Fix controls mirror controls which have different page channels
PC is now 1-128 not 0-127
Set to default showing wrong values on screen
Smart default: If Bipolar is set in device it defaults to zero
Smart default: Switching form 7bit to 14bit type retains lsb

Changes:

Control with “Push Action: CC mode: Press&Release” can be held now without it switching into group view

kokosnuss · February 14, 2026, 5:15pm

Yup, go to Config(first screen when turned on, 8th knob)
Then Midi, Trs thru - On.
That’s it

kokosnuss · February 14, 2026, 5:22pm

Works great with digi boxes.
One thing in settings , in midi Config/port config encoder destination needs to be int+ext.

kokosnuss · February 15, 2026, 4:54pm

One more thing. Like me you might have issue where when you turn on e16 it might change pitch, filter and other stuff on certain tracks.
Because oxi sends presets on start up and it can mess with stuff on channels.

In Config/System/Transmit parameters set to Preset action. This fixes the issue.

sradcliffe · February 15, 2026, 6:16pm

Thanks for the heads up, yeah this happened and I was scratching my head, I ended up turning the parameter off but I’ll try your method.

Loving the E16 so far, a fantastic edition to the DN & DT

gBarreras · February 17, 2026, 7:27am

Has anyone tested relative mode for the knobs? I tried it today with Digitakt 2 and it jumps to the min value when I turn the knob to the left and to the maximum when I turn it to the right.

I guess it’s a Digitakt compatibility issue rather than a bug in E16, but I’d like to confirm it. Has anyone tested that?

Thanks!