M-audio Edition

[Riitta Palazzo]

Forthe most complete and satisfying player experience possible, right out of the box, the new MAudio Keystation models come with an unprecedented array of recording/producing/performance software, virtual instruments and on-line performance/skill-building lessons. These tools include:

About M-Audio

M-Audio (m-audio.com) began as Midiman, a driving force in the desktop recording revolution that followed the introduction of MIDI in the 1980s. Today, M-Audio has evolved into one of the most revered names in computer interface and studio integration solutions, keyboard and controller products, and all manner of essential musical hardware from microphones to studio monitors. M-Audio is a proud member of the inMusic family (inmusicbrands.com).

I purchased the new M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61 keyboard controller and am now working on getting all the sync-ups to work. First, you have to register the keyboard controller and enter code you are given. Download any software regarding this.

Next, go to: -audio.com/kb/article/1935, on the M-Audio website. This has some information that helps get some things connected and working. Of course, before attempting any connection, you must hook up the keyboard using the USB cord and also a midi connection cable, if connecting through an interface.

Use the keyboard's DAW Select button, holding it down a moment, and the turn the "Push to Enter" knob (just down and to the right of the DAW Select button) until the lit window screen displays "Studio One". Then, push the "Push to Enter" button. This does connect your keyboard to the Studio One software and you should see your keyboard listed when you go to add a "New Keyboard".

First, we want to assign your Code transport to send as Mackie. This is basically a control language that will allow us to set up the controls of the keyboard without any mapping files or individually learning the functions. Here's how:

To allow some flexibility, the knobs, faders, and assignable buttons can send as MIDI CC, Mackie/HUI, or HID, but for our purposes with Studio One, we want to set these to send as Mackie/HUI. Each bank of parameters will have a "Mode" button that will change colors based on the mode the parameters are set to. Simply, hit each mode button until it lights up green. The screen should read "MACHUI" to confirm." (from the M-Audio website information)

If you have already selected the "DAW", as described above, on the keyboard controller, then when you open Studio One, or close it and reopen it, Studio One will recognize "Oxygen Pro 61" - although it will not be listed in the suggested items list. Then, after reading the M-Audio info - I created "New Keyboard" for each of these, which I found in "Add ...", and then "New Keyboard", and the open the "M-Audio" choice:

I have the keyboard controller connected to the DAW, and also have the first 5 sliders working as Volume faders for 5 separate tracks in my song, in correct order, and also the "Stop", "Go", and "Record" buttons work. I haven't checked the rest, yet. Working my way through!

I'm glad to know there is at least one other person with the keyboard and studio one not just me. But I've emailed M-Audio again trying to get support and still researching the issue so if I figure it out I will post here. Might just return it though, not having transport buttons at all is definitely a deal breaker for my situation...

Thanks petermoran1. The one downside to this is (at least for me) there is no Master volume control with the keyboard using HUI vs Mackie Control. I think the hardware HUI didn't have this feature, so it make sense, but it means that Slider 9 loses is function as a volume control. That may be the lesser of two evils depending on your needs.

I have tried all kinds of combinations and workarounds - on Mac 10.14 - so far I have come up with these emergency solutions for Studio One: see image below (all knobs, sliders and transport works and no more record-arm stuck on first track).

As for Logic I have simply had to delete the HUI controller setup in logic, forget about the DAW-Select on Oxygen Pro 61 and manually set up a custom preset in the 'Preset-select' menu - I use two specific presets, one for CC-midi control for instruments and one for DAW control in Logic - and no more midi nonsense going on with C-2 constantly oscillating and what not. Hope this helps, and really hope that M-Audio will finish the job and soon deliver the correct drivers for this otherwise very nice keyboard.

I have exactly the same issue as brunofernandez-ruiz with track 1 being permanently armed for record. I don't understand why everyone with this keyboard isn't complaining about the issue as the fault is baked in to the device.

Like Bruno I also found m-audio support to be missing in action. I contacted m-audio about this issue and told them that I could see it passing a pair of disarm/arm midi commands every time you tried to disarm the track. In other words, it did disarm it, but then immediately re-armed it. It is also slightly more subtle than being the first instrument track. It is actually the first instrument. If you create a blank instrument track with no instrument assigned then the fault switches to track 2 or whatever track is assigned the first instrument. I even managed to get to a situation where disarming track 1 would arm track 2 and vice versa. I told M-audio that I thought it was a firmware issue.

Well, after nearly three weeks of waiting for a response they finally got back to me a few days ago to say that they thought it was a firmware issue. So at least they have now acknowledged the issue is real. They told me that a firmware update was due on the 13th of July. The following is a direct quote from the email I received.

how do I increase the overall velocity on my m-audio keystation 61 ES?I am using logic pro 10 on mountain lion. I really have to turn up the volume slider all the way to get a limited amount of volume

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So you want a full piano-sized set of keys without shelling out hundreds? The M-Audio Keystation 88 Mk3 may well make the smallest dent in your wallet, but will it satisfy your compositional, recording or performance needs? The previous versions have been a staple of audio setups, professional and otherwise, and to make them even easier to fit into desk workstations M-Audio has shaved a good few centimetres off the depth and height of the keyboard in this iteration.

Though its predecessor was hardly a challenge to stands or desks, the Mk 3 is now almost 1.5kg lighter. This revision represents more of a rearrangement than a redesign, the most significant aspect of which is that all the controls are now situated on the left hand side; previously the transport/DAW buttons were housed away from the other controls on the upper right hand side. The flush-mounting for the pitch and mod wheels has gone, leaving them easier to operate, though at the same time making them more prone to damage.

The controller keyboard is bundled with a sizeable software set. For DAW and performance there is Pro Tools First (M-Audio edition) and Ableton Live Lite, so two industry standards in slightly limited formats. There are sample packs for the (freeware) MPC Beats and five virtual instruments from AIR Music: Mini Grand, Velvet (electric pianos), Xpand!2 (synth), DB-33 tonewheel organ and the Boom drum machine. There are also introductory piano lessons from Skoove and Melodics.

Are all those keys really necessary? For certain users, yes. If you regularly perform or compose with virtual pianos, there is nothing like having the full 88 keys. Few instruments sound good over seven octaves, with the exception of the piano, church organs and their electric brethren.

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