The expressive power of aftertouch
Normally only found on high-end keyboards, aftertouch is one feature you might not know you need until you’ve actually used it. Synth mavens at Sweetwater use it like you would any MIDI CC, but the fact that it doesn’t require taking your hands off the keyboard (or operating a pedal) makes it especially valuable. Perhaps the best example of aftertouch in action is leaning into a note you’re already playing to apply some tasty vibrato to the tail end. Oxygen Pro is fitted with a mod wheel, and although it lacks an expression pedal jack, you can commandeer any of its assignable knobs for any continuous controller function.
Everything you need to make music
Oxygen Pro is loaded with smart features that pack everything you need to make music into one powerful package. No need to get bogged down in pesky music theory — Oxygen Pro’s Smart Chord mode lets you play sophisticated enharmonic or custom chord voicings, while its Smart Scale mode eliminates incorrect notes, so you can solo like a virtuoso. Also onboard is a full-featured Arpeggiator with type, octave, gate, and swing controls. DAW transport controls, ergonomic pitch-bend and mod wheels, a sustain pedal jack, 5-pin MIDI out, and USB-MIDI complete the setup. Oxygen Pro comes with Pro Tools | First M-Audio Edition, MPC Beats, and Ableton Live Lite DAW software, as well as a generous virtual instrument plug-in and MPC expansion pack bundle.
Included virtual instrument plug-ins:
- Hybrid 3 (multi-oscillator synthesizer)
- Velvet (electric piano)
- Mini Grand (acoustic piano)
- Vacuum * (analog synth)
- Boom * (vintage drum machine)
- DB-33 * (classic organ)
- * Pro Tools license only
Included MPC expansion packs:
- MPC Beats Producer Kits (multi-genre beat production pack)
- F9 Instruments Beats Edition (25 high-quality instrument samples)
- Laniakea Sounds (TrapSoul & LoFi production pack)
- MSX Audio (Soulful Drums collection)
- ADSR (LoFi producer collection)
- MVP Urban Roulette Beats Edition (urban kits and samples expansion pack)
- Cr2 Deep House Beats Edition (deep house expansion pack)
