Re: Oxygen8 keyboard aftertouch?

[Catilyne <catilyne@icicle.net>]

At 04:56 PM 6/13/2003 -0700, Mark Sottilaro wrote:

>Anyway, does anyone know if the Oxygen8 has this?  The website didn't 
>seem 
>to mention it.

Not in the sense you're thinking of.  The Oxy8 keyboard won't transmit 
aftertouch from key pressure, but there's an assignable dataslider.  One 
of 
the parameters that can be quickly linked to this slider is aftertouch.  
In 
addition, I've not done it myself but I believe you can just as easily 
assign aftertouch to one of the eight controller pots.

Keep in mind that there are also two other direct competitors for the 
Oxygen 8: the Novation 25 and the two-octave jobbie from Evolution (whose 
name I forget).  One of them may be able to send aftertouch directly from 
keyboard pressure.  Personally, if I were still in the market for a 
compact 
controller, I'd be looking pretty hard at the new Novation.  The Oxy's 
working pretty well for me at the moment, however, so that's pretty much 
an 
unnecessary upgrade for the time being.

         -c-

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