The Oxygen Pro 49 breathed new life into the Oxygen range and its new sibling is also feature-packed and creative. One slight gripe here where the Note Repeat button is next to the pads on the Pro, its position just below the LED display here feels less intuitive. In Scale Mode, you’ll find it impossible to trigger notes ‘outside’ of the key of your track, as keyboard playback adapts to reflect your chosen harmonic foundation.Īlso present are the Pro’s excellent Arpeggiator and Beat Repeat, so that stutters and repeats can be triggered from the pads.
So you’ll also find you have access to the Pro’s Smart Chord and Smart Scale modes which aid songwriting and composition by, in the case of Chord Mode, triggering whole chords (major and minor, depending on the key of your track), from a single key. Much of the new tech introduced with the Pro is adopted here too. Oxygen Pro 49’s new sibling is also feature-packed and creative.
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