Strongly recommend Pipe to anyone who wants to use Oxi with modular gear. Not only it is convenient to have a breakout module in the rack, but also, now your CV and gate outs on Oxi are unbuffered mults, and we all know that especially gates are almost always going into mult before sending them to envelopes and various other stuff.
SynthDad, liked and subscribed! Great communication style and informing me just what I need to know. I’ve been trying to find a good way to modulate CV on my modular for quite a while now and most reviews leave me with more questions than answers. Many thanks.
great content. my thanks. but seing this i really must step back from buying an oxi one. it's so immensely powerful yet you have to remember sooooo many combinations and map them out in your brain. for my techno performance i was torn between the oxi one and the torso t1. but now i'm leaning towards the t1 just because it seems to be more constrained and straight forward.
@@SynthDad I would love it indeed saw Waveformer (T) using it and immediately looked up price🤣🤣🤣 but alas Id have to sell an mpc for it and not quite ready for that. Looks incredible for live improv especially in modular world!! Yes all good here, you Sir? 💗🍻🙌
@@SynthDad did oxi hire you to sell their product or are you just so excited that you need to share with the world the joy you have found? or maybe youd like some of that youtube cheddar
@@SynthDad tis a feeling of community you are after? contributor brownie points? an ego rub... status among fellow jammin bredren? a reason to live! are you really a dad?
4:16 where do these notes come from all of a sudden? I don’t get where to program the notes. Please tell me it isn’t by holding down a button and turning a dial? I know you can copy a pattern from a monophonic sequence, but isn’t there a way to select a track and then dive into note view?
I just pre-programmed them into the sequencer so that it was ready to get to the important part of hooking up to the modular. That way the video didn’t just show me typing in notes.
Maybe you covered this in another video, but is it possible to have separate envelope parameters on each step? Also can the Oxi One do ratcheting envelopes? Thanks in advance.
Yes you can by adjusting the gate length and velocity which creates the envelope shape. Steps can be set to ratchet (as in repeat) so I'm assuming the envelopes would too!
I have a fairly in-depth question about CV/gate routing and how it works when the sequencer is Multitrack or Matricial when there are multiple voices that can be used in a sequence. How do you select the voice to be sequencing per track in those modes that have mulitple tracks on one page? I think I understand how to assign a CV and gate outputs to one of the 4 parameters in the sequence (pitch, velocity, trigger, lfo/mod, and then Gate, clock, accent, and mod threshold). but once you are on the page of a multitrack sequencer how do you know which voice you are sequencing on a given track? Say on the first Matricial track I want to be sequencing a pattern coming from Pizza and Ikarie, then on track 2 I want to be sequencing a voice on Plaits, but not as chords, rather as competely different sequences. How do the tracks differentiate which CV and gates to sequence?
You set that up in the CV/gate screen (press the button) and then choose the sequencer and track per CV or gate output there. Maybe I'll do a video explaining that
@@SynthDada tutorial with Matricial mode the CV/gate assignments as it pertains to specifically modular gear would be amazing. Some examples with multiple tracks and multiple CV/gate sequences per track would be super helpful. Thanks for all you do!
It can do both! In the modulation menu press Shift and the knob corresponding to the modulation lane. This opens up a control menu for that mod lane. Scroll down and you'll see a "Smooth" parameter that lets you set the degree of slew between steps
Have you installed the latest beta firmware, because that has this new feature in it. The manual online is still a bit out of date. I know a manual update is coming soon
The newest FW update, and the recent fresh shipments of product (thanks @PerfectCircuit ) and your clear intros have made their way into incoming OXI fun for me and my unwieldy hybrid rig….Thanks much, and Please keep the vid tutorials coming…….
hi there! I don't have a modular but would really like a video just showing how you make a track from scratch using the oxi, using all the modes, and longer sequences :)
first of all, your videos are so helpful, many thx for that! i'm wondering if the pipe is also able to extend oxi with additional 8g8cv or does it disabel the ones on the back??
Hi SynthDad i've just watched Oxi Instruments tutorial for absolute beginner and it shows 2 synths connected to the Oxi One via the Oxi split midi splitter with designated outputs 1 and 2 meaning that the 2 synths can be triggered independently of each other.I have a 7 way midi splitter - will i be able to use that and get the same result please ? Thanks for the support videos.
Is it possible to use at the same time PIPE and CV/Gate on OXI Outs, - in order to double the number of different modulations within eurorack, Spaghetti cabling plus compact PIPE ravioli cabling ?!
@@SynthDad duplicates got you, that's usable as well in manny situations, thank you for taking time and bringing it closer to me 🤪 You covered OXI ONE so much, I watched couple of your videos so far, very much friendly for a new comer like my self.
Great tutorial. Cost differences aside, if you didn’t have the Oxi One and had to choose between it and the Squarp Hapax, would you still choose the Oxi?
I can't really give you a good answer because I've only played with a Hapax for a few minutes so don't know how to compare it. I think the Hapax has more advanced MIDI effects, but is larger and no battery power. The Oxi wins for CV/gate connectivity with 8 as against 4 for the Hapax.
When you bought this, did it come with one or two MIDI cables? Even though I don't do Eurotack, I am toying with getting one of these. I do have synths with CV/Gate though. Nice video. Cheers.
Hey @synthdad would you perhaps know how the change the key of a melody on the second page of a sequencer without effecting the first page? I recorded a melody into Oxi, step 1-16 is the melody, I then duplicated the melody to the second page step 16-32 and would like to make a key change. If I use the up and down arrows it effects the global key and not only the second page. You can’t change the the notes after recording into Oxi, the notes go haywire…any idea how to do this ?
What happens if you press and hold a note pad on the second page and then press a pad up or down to transpose the notes by that many semitones (in whatever scale you’ve chosen)?
What worked for me is copying the pattern into a new slot, switching to that new slot and then using the normal transpose feature by holding the according Sequence (1, 2, 3, 4) button and pressing the target note in the grid.
Good question! The T1 is more hands-on as it is a knob-per-function sequencer. You can quickly change the performance on the fly using each knob. However if you want to build songs or program specific patterns then it's not as strong. The Oxi One is better for composition because it has an arranger (i.e. song creator) and you can build song progressions on it. It is very powerful at harmonising and chord generation too. And it has more CV/gate connections than the Torso. So really it depends on how you want to interact with the devices.
Here's something that's been killing me: the completely undocumented DIN SYNC functionality only mentioned in the manual in the context of an unincluded dongle. I've been trying for days to figure out an easy way to have the One trigger the Run functionality of Pamela's New Workout.
Oh I hadn't seen that before. My One didn't come with that adapter so I can't test it. Why not use the Clock Out TRS port on the back of the One into Pams? That's how I sync them
Ha, well I just learned you can set Pam's to start/stop based on clock instead of Run so now it works great. Really interested to see what the new "Matriceal" mode is going to be.
Can’t thank you enough for making these vids. One has a pretty steep learning curve due to so many features. Great job
I'm kind of lusting for the Oxi One, but I have to say this is also an excellent explanation of how the whole CV/Gate thing works in general.
Thank you!
Strongly recommend Pipe to anyone who wants to use Oxi with modular gear. Not only it is convenient to have a breakout module in the rack, but also, now your CV and gate outs on Oxi are unbuffered mults, and we all know that especially gates are almost always going into mult before sending them to envelopes and various other stuff.
Totally agree - the Pipe is a must have
Thanks for making another amazing tutorial!
Thanks for this video Dad. I got the OXI One thinking 'ahhh I know what I'm doing'....I did not. Now I do!
My work here is done…thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for this outstanding video. You helped me so much.
You are so welcome!
This is such a great demonstration for someone like me who is almost ready to dive into modular. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Good video Mark. This looks like it might take awhile to learn but I think the usefullness of it will be worth it. You've helped to sell me on it!
Thanks 👍
SynthDad, liked and subscribed! Great communication style and informing me just what I need to know. I’ve been trying to find a good way to modulate CV on my modular for quite a while now and most reviews leave me with more questions than answers. Many thanks.
Awesome, thank you!
So helpful. Just pulled the trigger on the behringer system 55. Good times to be had. THANKS!!!
Glad it helped! Have fun with the System 55!
Great. Thank you for the Video. Looking already forward for your next video on the oxi one.
Coming soon!
Dad, this video was perfect. Much respect ✊
Thanks for watching!
Great Oxi One video... keep 'em coming! 😄
More to come!
Love your explanation style, thank you!!!
Really nice video thanks! Think my beatstep pro days are numbered!
great content. my thanks. but seing this i really must step back from buying an oxi one. it's so immensely powerful yet you have to remember sooooo many combinations and map them out in your brain. for my techno performance i was torn between the oxi one and the torso t1. but now i'm leaning towards the t1 just because it seems to be more constrained and straight forward.
I know what you mean - the T1 is a great little sequencer (I had one for a while) and for dialing in techno phrases its great.
@@SynthDad may i ask why you parted with the t1 and what you got instead?
Oh... of course you have the oxi one now. Silly me.
Such a great tutorial, thanks! Very hopeful you do more as I’m just breaking ground with this thing :)
Thanks, and yes I do have more tutorials planned for the Oxi One
Keep it up😉 Looking at OXI ONE looks interesting indeed 💗💗 to you M 🌟
It really is! It can be the heart of a complex multi-synth setup. I think you'd love it - hope you're doing well!
@@SynthDad I would love it indeed saw Waveformer (T) using it and immediately looked up price🤣🤣🤣 but alas Id have to sell an mpc for it and not quite ready for that. Looks incredible for live improv especially in modular world!! Yes all good here, you Sir? 💗🍻🙌
@@SynthDad did oxi hire you to sell their product or are you just so excited that you need to share with the world the joy you have found? or maybe youd like some of that youtube cheddar
@@alien_brain lol TH-cam cheddar! No Oxi didn’t hire me and I bought my One myself. I just enjoy making educational videos
@@SynthDad tis a feeling of community you are after? contributor brownie points? an ego rub... status among fellow jammin bredren? a reason to live! are you really a dad?
these are fantastic tutorials thank you
You're very welcome!
Ah this looks very very good, sadly this might be curtains for my much loved beat step pro...
Nice one dad! Great tutorial.
Thanks!
4:16 where do these notes come from all of a sudden? I don’t get where to program the notes. Please tell me it isn’t by holding down a button and turning a dial? I know you can copy a pattern from a monophonic sequence, but isn’t there a way to select a track and then dive into note view?
I just pre-programmed them into the sequencer so that it was ready to get to the important part of hooking up to the modular. That way the video didn’t just show me typing in notes.
Maybe you covered this in another video, but is it possible to have separate envelope parameters on each step? Also can the Oxi One do ratcheting envelopes? Thanks in advance.
Yes you can by adjusting the gate length and velocity which creates the envelope shape. Steps can be set to ratchet (as in repeat) so I'm assuming the envelopes would too!
Excellent guide, thank you 🙏
You’re welcome!
I have a fairly in-depth question about CV/gate routing and how it works when the sequencer is Multitrack or Matricial when there are multiple voices that can be used in a sequence. How do you select the voice to be sequencing per track in those modes that have mulitple tracks on one page? I think I understand how to assign a CV and gate outputs to one of the 4 parameters in the sequence (pitch, velocity, trigger, lfo/mod, and then Gate, clock, accent, and mod threshold). but once you are on the page of a multitrack sequencer how do you know which voice you are sequencing on a given track? Say on the first Matricial track I want to be sequencing a pattern coming from Pizza and Ikarie, then on track 2 I want to be sequencing a voice on Plaits, but not as chords, rather as competely different sequences. How do the tracks differentiate which CV and gates to sequence?
You set that up in the CV/gate screen (press the button) and then choose the sequencer and track per CV or gate output there. Maybe I'll do a video explaining that
@@SynthDada tutorial with Matricial mode the CV/gate assignments as it pertains to specifically modular gear would be amazing. Some examples with multiple tracks and multiple CV/gate sequences per track would be super helpful. Thanks for all you do!
When drawing a modulation curve, does it interpolate values between the steps (e.g. make it smooth) or is it stepped voltage?
It can do both! In the modulation menu press Shift and the knob corresponding to the modulation lane. This opens up a control menu for that mod lane. Scroll down and you'll see a "Smooth" parameter that lets you set the degree of slew between steps
For some reason I don't see any of the velocity animation that you show, nor can I find in the manual where this is discussed. Any suggestions? Thanks
Have you installed the latest beta firmware, because that has this new feature in it. The manual online is still a bit out of date. I know a manual update is coming soon
The newest FW update, and the recent fresh shipments of product (thanks @PerfectCircuit ) and your clear intros have made their way into incoming OXI fun for me and my unwieldy hybrid rig….Thanks much, and Please keep the vid tutorials coming…….
@@bradlake4873 Will do!
Would the oxi one be able to quantize for example the DFAMs pitch and send the cv back to the dfam like quantizer modules?
That’s a good question - I’d have to set it up to quantise an external CV and test it out.
Thnx for the great videos! Any issues with the CV outs being -3V to 8V?
Only issue is if you need to have an LFO go bipolar around 0v (i.e. -5v to +5v) then you’ll need a module to scale the voltage (like the Befaco ABC)
@@SynthDad thanks
Thank you so much for this video! Have a fantastic weekend! Happy 4th of July!
Enjoy your weekend too!
hi there! I don't have a modular but would really like a video just showing how you make a track from scratch using the oxi, using all the modes, and longer sequences :)
Good suggestion- I’ve added it to the list
first of all, your videos are so helpful, many thx for that! i'm wondering if the pipe is also able to extend oxi with additional 8g8cv or does it disabel the ones on the back??
ah, manual say nope
Thanks you for watching! No unfortunately the Pipe is just a duplicate of the outputs on the back. It would be amazing if it added more!
How useful ist it to cover a value range of 0-127 with only 8 pads per column for cv modulation?
If you press and hold a pad you can set the exact cv modulation value you want it to have
You’ve sold me on it. 👍🏼
I don’t think you’ll regret it!
Just brilliant. ❤
Hi SynthDad i've just watched Oxi Instruments tutorial for absolute beginner and it shows 2 synths connected to the Oxi One via the Oxi split midi splitter with designated outputs 1 and 2 meaning that the 2 synths can be triggered independently of each other.I have a 7 way midi splitter - will i be able to use that and get the same result please ? Thanks for the support videos.
Yes you should be able to if each synth is on its own MIDI channel
@@SynthDad Ok thanks SynthDad that's good news.
Is it possible to use at the same time PIPE and CV/Gate on OXI Outs, - in order to double the number of different modulations within eurorack, Spaghetti cabling plus compact PIPE ravioli cabling ?!
The Oxi Pipe duplicates what is present at the CV/gate outputs, so you just get the same voltages in a convenient module format.
@@SynthDad duplicates got you, that's usable as well in manny situations, thank you for taking time and bringing it closer to me 🤪
You covered OXI ONE so much, I watched couple of your videos so far, very much friendly for a new comer like my self.
is this better than a Midi to CV Converter or does it even make sense to use both?
It can do MIDI to CV conversion, but it's overkill as it's a full sequencer and arranger. I use both in my setup
Do you need a modular or can you just create sounds only with the oxi one?
It’s a sequencer so it cannot create sounds. You can use it with a PC/Mac, iPad, regular MIDI synths or modular
Great tutorial. Cost differences aside, if you didn’t have the Oxi One and had to choose between it and the Squarp Hapax, would you still choose the Oxi?
I can't really give you a good answer because I've only played with a Hapax for a few minutes so don't know how to compare it. I think the Hapax has more advanced MIDI effects, but is larger and no battery power. The Oxi wins for CV/gate connectivity with 8 as against 4 for the Hapax.
@@SynthDad Good point about the number of CV / Gate outs. And that breakout module is a much tidier way to connect it to the modular. Cheers.
Better that deluge? Well aside from the additional cv outs
For pure sequencing yes I think it is. The screen makes all the difference in keeping track of parameters
@@SynthDad haha ive been trying to say this for years
@@alien_brain i dont need a screen for sequencing midi notes.. 😅
@@JohnTrasher true but it's much nicer for loading samples or settings and honestly many other things
When you bought this, did it come with one or two MIDI cables?
Even though I don't do Eurotack, I am toying with getting one of these. I do have synths with CV/Gate though.
Nice video.
Cheers.
Yes I think it did. Definitely get the Oxi Pipe if you’re planning to use it with modular gear though
Super helpful
Great to hear!
Hey @synthdad would you perhaps know how the change the key of a melody on the second page of a sequencer without effecting the first page? I recorded a melody into Oxi, step 1-16 is the melody, I then duplicated the melody to the second page step 16-32 and would like to make a key change. If I use the up and down arrows it effects the global key and not only the second page. You can’t change the the notes after recording into Oxi, the notes go haywire…any idea how to do this ?
What happens if you press and hold a note pad on the second page and then press a pad up or down to transpose the notes by that many semitones (in whatever scale you’ve chosen)?
What worked for me is copying the pattern into a new slot, switching to that new slot and then using the normal transpose feature by holding the according Sequence (1, 2, 3, 4) button and pressing the target note in the grid.
does that hdmi transmit all 16 channels?
Yes the Oxi Pipe transmits the CV1-8 and Gate 1-8 outputs
Fantastic!
Many thanks!
how does the Oxi One compare to the Torso T1 as a generative Sequencer?
Good question! The T1 is more hands-on as it is a knob-per-function sequencer. You can quickly change the performance on the fly using each knob. However if you want to build songs or program specific patterns then it's not as strong.
The Oxi One is better for composition because it has an arranger (i.e. song creator) and you can build song progressions on it. It is very powerful at harmonising and chord generation too. And it has more CV/gate connections than the Torso.
So really it depends on how you want to interact with the devices.
@@SynthDad thank you, that helps! 👍
Here's something that's been killing me: the completely undocumented DIN SYNC functionality only mentioned in the manual in the context of an unincluded dongle. I've been trying for days to figure out an easy way to have the One trigger the Run functionality of Pamela's New Workout.
Oh I hadn't seen that before. My One didn't come with that adapter so I can't test it. Why not use the Clock Out TRS port on the back of the One into Pams? That's how I sync them
Ha, well I just learned you can set Pam's to start/stop based on clock instead of Run so now it works great. Really interested to see what the new "Matriceal" mode is going to be.
Good video but the OXI PIPE is really not needed!
you do be jammin tho