This looks quite promising, especially if it can compete with EC4’s price. I’m really hoping that it has MIDI TRS - it does seem like it, if the red connector matches the red cable on Tonverk (also I can’t think of anything else that would be shaped like that)
Wondering if it will have Bluetooth MIDI and battery (or will it need (USB bus) power and midi cables).
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Battery adds bulk and cost; Bluetooth adds instability and latency. I can see how OXI would want to avoid those issues if they could. Either can be added by the user if desired. Oora has two cables into the unit. I’m sure it would have looked nice to tweak and brandish it without those. So my guess is no. It’s still a prototype, though, you never know.
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Good spot 
nice cant wait,want to replace midi fighter twister controller
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Bluetooth doesn’t add any issues with this type of controllers. Issues that might be noticable with sequencer or keyboard playing are not noticable with an encoder bank.
Battery and MIDI would be amazing and make sense considering Oxi has the necessary experience and components available. Also would make sense as a means for integration with Oxi One.
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I got the EC4 as soon as It came out, i think there wasn’t anything similar in the market. But this one is even better. Besides all the snapshots and morphing stuff, just the possibility of seeing the values (led rings) and labels at the same time, makes me want to change 
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Looks great! Very interested
I sign my interest as well.
This looks very promising. As an EC4 fan there are pretty big shoes to fill. My EC4 has been a reliable tool for many years without fail. Immediately this squeaks of “iphoneobselence”. That aside the one thing this clearly does that I’ve always wanted from the EC4 was simply the ability to show both the knob label and the current parameter value at the same time… Will be watching this space for sure.
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Ha just posted this 
The one issue I have had with the ECR!
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Looking forward to more details on this. I really disliked the way the EC4 handled NRPN and I’m hoping this does a better job. Actually what I would really like to see is something like the old NI Kore implementation where there is a mapping of virtual to logical values. For example, a knob that lets you select oscillator shapes from a range of shapes mapped to the knob range etc.
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That sounds pretty fancy but I dig the feature.
What’s there to be done differently about NRPNs then EC4 does?
E16 seems from the get go to be improving upon EC4 in several important aspects. What I am most worried about is lack of memory / not high enough count of setups / groups.
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I’m most concerned with being forced to use a computer. it’s one of the things that drives me crazy about the Torso T-1, having to plug it into a computer to changed important settings is a real drag for something that you want to bring places sans computer…. I never need to do that with the EC4 if something is bothering me i can change it on the fly easily. I do also hope it has sufficient memory as well as the ability to easily swap between instruments like the EC4.
You have a selection of 7 and 14 bit ranges but you cannot set an arbitrary range. For example 1 thru 750 for filter cutoff. . I believe it has the same problem with regular CC but it’s been a while since I owned one. For example, I want to map a knob to a destination that has an acceptable range of 1 thru 7. Or even worse: a range of 1…127 in steps of 8.
Definitely keeping an eye out for this one. Looks like a very cool way to mimic OT scenes and morphing/fading between them as extra hands on control for Live next to the Push.
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Hopefully Oora is shooting a video as we speak 
Custom rangers can be set. Value jumps for encoder clicks cannot be set though, they result from acceleration setting.