I got a general email from @OxiInstruments today, did you? it states:
" We wanted to let you all know the production of the second batch has finally started!
It has been tough to get all set since we have suffered quite a few setbacks, mainly with shipments of components. One and a half month waiting for the LEDs and almost a two weeks delay to receive the metal chassis because of the Fedex collapse. Nowadays getting things on time seems to be more luck than anything else…
But now it is now in our hands!
We’ll assemble the units of the 2022 preorders between this and the next week, we’ll ship them and then we’ll announce the restock for future orders when we have more units available.
Regarding distribution, we do not have an exact date. We’ll try to speed up things as soon as we have enough stock."
It’s one of those damned if you do damned if you don’t sort of scenarios, the “why it’s behind schedule” is as ever supply chain issues, but supply chain has also stopped giving estimates on in-demand basic components and certainly controllers, and ETAs change.
Glad they did a broad email, expectations are super hard to manage in this particular time because it’s nigh-impossible to commit to a time or even range with so much instability.
Hello! Apologies for the lack of communication.
The thing is we don’t have a realtime email list of the preorders. We try to use the general communications (newsletters) to share exciting news for everyone, logistic delays and setbacks are not
Tomorrow we’ll start shipping again!
Could anyone, who has the device explain me, how that Sequencer/Multitrack thing works. What I understand:
You have 4 Sequencers (with the 4 buttons). Each of those Sequencers can be either Mono, Poly, Chord (I understand those, I think) or Multi.
What I also seem to understand: Multi splits the Sequencer into 8 Monophonic Tracks, Using a Row per Track to set triggers. That looks awesome for Drums, but how does it work with Melodic content? Can you “enter” such a Track to have the melody shown on the full grid, or are you working on them like on a Sequencer like on Elektron devices? Is this useable to extensive melody-use?
I tend to have the need for way more than 4 Tracks, so I would highly depend on multi-Tracks. Also: Are you able to set several Multi-Tracks to the same MIDI Port/Channel so I could a: let them play Polyphonic, or b: More important, have more than one Modulation Lane per Track? (Found that in the manual)
Can the tracks have different step-lengths?
@OxiInstruments Website states that backorder might delivered this month. Is this still valid?
This. No piano roll view so far. But you can copy a sequence you made in a Mono sequencer into a Multi sequencer track.
I have more devices than tracks too. But I also realized that I barely use more than 4 tracks at the same time. The good thing is, that the MIDI channel of a sequencer is bound to a pattern. This means, that you could use many different devices in different patterns.
Absolutely. You could split a Multi Sequencer into two 4-voice polyphonic sequencers.
Right now, it’s one Modulation Lane per track, so 8 in total.
Yup.
No insights into that but they will be on the Superbooth next week if you really want a hands on and have a chat.
Just to add to what Klaustrophil said, mono piano roll edition on Multitrack for each track is on the roadmap (can’t assure it’ll be real 100%).
Also, the Multitrack keyboard has a global layout for multitrack (more useful for drums) or independent 8 octave for each track, meaning you can record melodies from the keyboard to individual tracks, quantise them and perform over them in real time (rolls, mutes, solos, arp…), or compose them on Stochastic or Mono and paste them to a track in multi.
To extend a bit on how OXI interacts with multiple instruments:
Each track on Multitrack has independent user selectable MIDI channel. Chord mode has the ability to send the root note (1 or 2 oct down) to an independent MIDI channel as well, so Chord can drive two instruments at the same time. Through CV and Gate analog outputs, all Chord voices can be set to different outputs, same for Multitrack and Poly.
Also independent per Multitrack track:
Init / End points
Playback direction (fwd, back, pend and rand)
Time Division
Glide
Rand % to Time Division
Rand % to Vel
Rand % to Gate
Rand % to trigger (an active note playing)
Rand % to retrigs or to skip (probability of skipping a step timing, making the length variable each time)
Add to that a random generator of patterns, an Euclid generator and MI Grids drum engine on the first 3 tracks.
Thanks for all the feedback! Have another question
In the manual it states, that you can define a Program Change on a Pattern. As this is the only mention of the phrase “Program Change” I understand, that Oxi is sending a Program Change (if defined) whenever a Pattern changes to the MIDI Channel defined in that Sequencer, So I can change the sound of the synth per pattern? How does this work on Multi-Tracks?
Right now, the Program Change is not directly bound to the pattern but to an arranger slot. This means you could use even two different Program Change messages with the same pattern. The switching can be automated using the arranger or you can use the arranger as an clip launcher by setting a slot to repeat infinitely.
A Multi sequencer is treated as one sequencer in the arranger, therefore you can send only one PC to one channel. I thought a lot about how to change that but every solution I came up with would result in bad UX and inconsistencies…
Well, being able to send PC per Arranger-Slot is a lot more, than Devices like the Maschine+ are able to do
As I work mostly with multi-timbral Synths, I might be able to work with Groups on the devices itself, but that might fail at the point, that I cannot find anything in the manual about Bank (LSB and MSB) changes, so that wouldn’t even work, as those are placed in special banks on all the devices. As Bank Select is CC0 most of the time, it might be possible to use a CC Lane for that, but a. this sacrifices a Modulation Lane and b. on some synths, this would recall the preset every time the pattern loops.
Reason for this is mostly, that I love to be able to recall a project without remembering 1000th of settings, so having the Main-Brain (aka Sequencer) tell the Synth what Preset to load and play, is the most QOL Feature at all for me.
In hope, that the statement on the website (May 2022) is current, I just ordered one to test it out.
I might be totally wrong, but if I understand correctly how the data is managed, you can change the configuration of a Track (even the Mode) for every Sequencer per Pattern, right? So I could have 1 be Mono on one Pattern and Poly on another. If that is how it is done, BankSelect and PC Message could be a part of the Trackconfiguration of a Multi-Sequencer, like its done on most other sequencers anyways.
A nother way to do it, would be an additional “Modulation-Lane” that is for PC/BS only, that is able to only send the messages when ever it changes instead of whenever it appears (to bypass preset-reloading and with that sound-kills without any need).
@Uija I love Multitracks. I use them for most things because they’re so versatile. You get eight lanes - each lane can address a different note of a synth/different instrument of a drumkit/different sample in a drum rack etc). But more than that, each lane of the Multitrack can address a different MIDI channel.
I use Ableton Live, and in that program, a drum rack can hold 128 cells for samples. As each Multitrack lane can address a different cell of the drum rack, each of the eight Multitrack rows can address a different MIDI channel and as there are four Sequencer tracks within the Oxi One, I can address a ridiculous amount of samples/notes at once!
The above combined with the intelligent randomisation, the undo/redo functionality and the save states among many other things make for a ludicrously fun device. And no, I am not paid to be saying any of this. Wish I was! Just a very satisfied customer.
There is one thing to keep in mind … which is quite different compated to many other sequencers I know …
Each pattern of a single sequencer may be defined as any of the “sequencer-modes”. So pattern 1 can be in monophonic mode, pattern 2 in multimode, pattern 3 in chord mode …
