Thank you
OK, I think I understand you now. There’s still something odd though: Setting Div to either plus or minus 33%, or both, will not change the time division - cool. Pressing minus (-)33% alone will produce varying gate lengths as expected. But setting Div to plus (+)33% (alone, without the -33%) will not vary the gate length. All triggers will have a gate length of 50. Bug or expected?
You talked me into it @OxiInstruments - ordered the funky black one
Congratulations, and welcome to the party!
I just started trying to use the Oxi One in my studio this morning and hit an early bump. I posted a thread over on the Oxi forum, but it’s a little quiet, so I thought I’d repost it here since there’s a lot of active users.
Hi all-
This morning I setup a session in Ableton specifically to test the OXI.
The 4 OXI tracks each go to a VSTi in Ableton for individual sound sources. I’m also running XO as a point of reference for timing inside Ableton to make sure things are syncing properly. One of my end-use for OXI will be as an external sequencer for Ableton that needs to tightly sync to any internal sequencers/patterns I’ve already created.
What’s happening at the moment is the bi-directional communication between Ableton and the OXI seems excellent, but there’s offset between the timing of quarter notes in XO (thud, thud, thud) and the playback of the OXI tracks through the VSTi’s inside Ableton. I assumed this would be down to setting up an offset in “Midi clock sync delay” in the Midi prefs, so I config’d this to match the currently reported “Overall Latency” in Ableton, but the lag between the internal and external timing and playback remains. I also tried enabling Track Delay on a per-track basis and seeing if I could further nudge things to get things tight, but that too didn’t work.
I noticed several comments that timing should be very tight, so I’m clearly missing something.
I just tried routing the same OXI pattern out through Ableton to my Intellijel Cascadia and the timing is nice and tight, so it’s definitely got something to do with the way the timing is arriving at the VSTi’s as opposed to lag originating from the OXI.
I’ll attach some screenshots to show how things are setup at the moment.
I don’t have an OXI but I’m wondering if you have ‘Delay Compensation’ enabled under the ‘Options’ tab? I seem to recall that it makes external sync a bit fussy.
That was totally the problem! I don’t even know when I would have turned that on or why.
THANK YOU!
I LOVE one feature of my polyend tracker which is that in each pass of the pattern you can put an FX of random note. Lower values works perfect for generative música and spice up a melody…
Is there something like that in the oxi? Each pass a different note within a scale…
It’s, for me, the best feature of the tracker…
You can achieve this with the Matriceal sequencer.
You can also put a S/H LFO on pitch but set the amount to 0. Then you use a mod lane to modulate the LFO amount by setting it to 100 on each step you want to randomize.
Oook, thanks both… it seems then that in the other modes there’s no way to do it, I’d love to do it in the poly mode, it would be great to set specific notes to change randomly each pass…
Thank you
Hello, yesterday I’ve backup a named project sending it to my PC but it seems that it doesn’t backup the name’s project… is it a normal behaviour or I’ve doing something wrong?? Thanks
Received mine today, and trying to wrap my head around one thing - if I understand this correctly, I can have up to four sequencers running at the same time, but no more, right?
So let’s say I only want to use mono sequencers, for whatever reason. Then I can only have four running at the same time, right? But send them to a midi channel each, so I could have like four Sh-101 playing simultaneously on ch1 - 4, but I can’t have a fifth one together with the four ones?
I’m fine with this, I just want to make sure I don’t keep looking for a way to run say 8 sequencers at the same time, Deluge style? And I’m aware of the multitrack sequencer, which resolves this need to some extent, should I have it (I don’t, really - just wanna know if it’s worth exploring to find it or not).
I believe yes, four sequencers, alas.
But to paraphrase Bill Gates, four is enough for anybody!
Yes, especially for my need thanks for replying
You can use a Multi sequencer like eight Mono sequencers, if you so choose. Each lane addressing a different MIDI channel. Four Multi sequencers, eight lanes each, 32 sequencers in total.
@circuitghost Adding to this, multitrack now have piano roll edition for each track, so you the difference with mono seq got smaller.
Additionally you can copy/paste mono seqs to individual multi tracks to free up a sequencer.
You can make any 4 combination of these:
Mono - 1 channel / 1 voice
Poly - 1 channel / 7 voices (keyboard can play all the notes at once)
Chord - 2 channels (separate root or octave down for bass) / 8 voices
Stochastic - 1 channel / 1 voice
Matriceal - 4 channels / 4 voices
Multitrack - 8 channels / 8 voices
Also, you can have a held ARP per sequencer, so that’s 4 more voices.
So yeah, it’s up to 32 tracks on 32 midi channels (USB has 32 channels, Split 48, TRS and BLE 16 channels).
Great, thank you all
Thinking about pulling the trigger on one too.
Id love to see more conventional songs being made on it. Most of the demo’s are bleepy blop Euroracks or reverb drenched 4 chord Boards of Canadas.
The discord group is super helpful tho.