Week #24 - Oxi One and Ableton

It's been a couple of weeks or so since my last journal, we are back with a few cool things

OXI One Legacy firmware update 5.0

I have had a good ole play around with the new FW update for the original Oxi and one of my favourite new features is what they’ve done with Matriceal mode by boosting it’s usability massively. The above track was created using this on a synth and the multitrack sequencer running mutable instruments randomisation on the drum track, which is a Core 808 drum rack on Ableton.

The Matriceal mode now allows you to double tap on a mode to open a new screen where you can set notes, octaves, intervals and so on with a bar chart style interface - this lends itself beautifully for performance purposes.

I can easily switch between track 4, my drums and track 2, matriceal, to tweak it all, soloing drum instruments, changing probabilities and velocities on the fly. I lost myself in this for a good hour or two.

There is a choice here of either loading patterns up in the arrangement view or going for a live hands-on approach.

My track now has a Eurorack sound about it and I love using this with Ableton, if I don’t fancy spending time in the piano roll.

I am going to build up on this project and come up with something more polished, with effects, LFOs and modulations galore, all driven by the oxi and nothing else - maybe I’ll share that next week?

Here’s another one, this time with some more instruments including Vital and Phase Plant playing chord duty, Vital on the lead, multitrack serving as drums and bass.

After some more time spent working on some LFOs for use within the Oxi, to alter the MIDI data on the fly, for example to modulate octaves and velocities. I then mapped the mod functions of the Oxi to MIDI mappings within Vital and I came up with a tune. I really like this one, going to upload to Soundcloud and Wavlake

You can grab the above track over on my Bandcamp page, which I am pleased to say, I am rekindling and going to publish a new track there at least once a month, maybe twice, perhaps more if I get really creative. Plus if you don’t want to subscribe here on Substack, I would love it if folks bought tracks or subscribed to my Bandcamp profile - I just need to feed it with new jams.

Ableton 12.2 - just out this week

Over the last couple of evenings I have had a bit of time to dive into Ableton’s latest version. Fave feature at the moment is Expressive chords. In the screen recording below are a couple of little tracks I’ve played with.

Looking forward to digging deeper.