Hi guys, just wondering if anyone is working in Cubase with the M-Audio Oxygen Pro 49 or 61 keys and have any input about the UI integration, key feel, controls and ability to edit controls.
Thanks, Nicolas.
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Hi,
Sorry, I haven’t found your device in the shared-midi-remote list.
Oh that’s sad… But I was asking because I don’t have it and wanted to know how the user experience is.
I use Pro 49 and it is fantastic, great feel, tons of features
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Hey Nicolas,
I have the Oxygen Pro 49 and it works great in DAW mode. The faders match up with the mixer view, transport controls, mute/solo all work. I haven’t figured out how to change patches through the virtual instruments using the keyboard only yet, but I’m still new to this controller. The pads work really well with what I use it for. I mostly use reason for my sounds. The only thing I’m trying to figure out how to fix, and its killing me, is how I go about using both my V1-m and Oxygen pro both in Mackie mode at the same time… The control works, but when I connect my Oxygen and put it in Mackie mode, the first 8 faders disappear from my V1-m and I’m only able to control them using my Oxygen. Other than my lack of knowledge with that, All good so far!!
Hope that helps
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Hi, artists,
I bought the oxygen pro 61 yesterday and I’m working on a script for the remote control. It’s not as easy as all that, especially with the encoder. If I can come up with an efficient and useful script, I’ll be happy to share it with you.
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Hi everyone,
I set up the oxygen pro and cubase without any problems by following the instructions on the m-audio site.
For those who want, here are screenshots of the configuration in studio device on cubase 13.
Then I created the midi remote control for the oxygen pro 61.
Here’s a screenshot.
It works pretty well.
My first problem is that I can’t (or don’t know how to) configure the encoder in the middle, the one that turns infinitely and can also be pushed.
Second problem, the oxygen pro works with 4 controller banks. For example, the 1st fader in bank 1 is associated with Midi CC 00 and the same fader in bank 2 is associated with Midi CC 9. This is great, as it gives us 4 times more controllers than the physical number of controllers on the keyboard. Yes, but I don’t know how to configure the midi remote control in cubase to indicate the different banks. If it doesn’t exist, it’s an update to add in my opinion, as many other midi controllers work with banks.
I should point out that in DAW mode on the keyboard (oxygen pro), the keyboard works with Mackie control. So you need to use the “M-audio oxygen pro editor” software supplied by M-audio to make any changes. I’ll have to look into this further.
As you can see, you can only use cubase’s midi remote control on the oxygen pro keyboard’s “PRESET” mode.
But at the moment I can’t use all 4 banks of the keyboard with midi remote control.
One of my goals is to control the vsti sylenth1 (which I highly recommend), and I need lots of buttons, faders, knobs… And for the moment I’m also using the M-audio oxygen pro Editor rather than midi remote control because of the banks I don’t know how to configure.
Thanks for any help or advice.
PS: I’m on Windows, can you remind me in which folder the midi remote control scripts are located?
Hi everyone,
my brain is a bit slow as I just figured out how to use the midi remote control assignment pages which are actually the same thing as infinite banks…
What’s more, you can assign controllers to different buttons on a VST instrument just by using the mouse on the desired button. In short, I’m very happy. Thanks steinberg.
There’s only one problem left: how do I configure the push-button encoder? But I’m looking and I’ll find it… I hope.
Hello all.
I too must have a “slow brain “ on this one. Having hooked up my Oxygen Pro 61 to my win10 pc I can’t figure out how to match the physical faders to Cubase 13 Artist. Whichever bank I select from the keyboard I can only control Cubase faders 9-16. I am clearly missing something here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers…
Hi @Stevie-Boy-Blue,
My guess is that there should be some button on the controller that switches between channels 1 to 8 and 9 to 16. So reading the manual of the controller might shed some light. Hope you manage to fix this issue. 
I am using that keyboard. I’d love to see what is said on this!
Firsly thank you for responses. I have read the manual over and over and everything is setup in cubase as it should be. The problem is that the banks of faders are supposed to be in groups of eight 1-8 9-16 etc , just as you suggest but they are selected using the Bnak up/down buttons. Howwever, Selecting for example bank one shows the first eight faders highlighted as under remote control until I ,for example, move the keyboard fader no.1 . This instantly adds another 8 tracks to the bank and being that the keyboard faders effectively control. the top eight of any highlighted tracks the lowest track i can control is channel 9, not 1. scrolling up and down the banks then coninuest to add spurios extra channels to the bank. so it is pot luck as to which fader is gonna do what. Now, I would not consider myself a newbie with this stuff and have been messing about with cubase since the days of cubase 3 on a 1080 Atari, in the end …life is too short to waste on things like this so I have returned the keyboard under a free returns policy. What a relief, It was doing my head in.
incidentally, the software vst freebies that came with it, namely Air’s MiniGrand, Hybrid and Velvet, also proved to be a bit problematic in cubase 13. two out of three would not run as apparently the Dll files awere not present in the correct place. I followed the tech helpline support and re-installed the vsts but to no avail. Again…I gave up in the end. Two whole days solid spent trying to sort this out. Still, not a complete waste of time, I am now considerably better versed in the Studio setup in Cubase, Mackie, Mackie hui and all that. I have just purchased an Arturia keylab. Hopefully that will do what it says on the tin, unlike this rather time consuming effort from M-Audio.
Sorry to hear you had to go through all of this. I’m glad you were able to return the keyboard without issues. I wanted to suggest you try the Novation LaunchKey. I personally bought the 64 key version and it works beautifully. The Arturia was my first choice but decided to go with the Novation instead. Hope you find the Arturia works for you and good luck.
Hello Nioufman!
I was curious if you did succeed with the Oxygen pro 61 and cubase 12.
Today I dicovered on de M-audio support site a new preset *(May 2024) for download version 0.3 (?!) .
I tried it, and it is was mostly zero success. No explanation on how to install whatsoever, or on what settings are expected…
Maybe i could adapt it manually… but then would have to export to an editable script and reimport it, so it can be edited in de surface editor. …
Could you let me know if you had any success with your own or with this new M_audio preset… maybe i do just something wrong.
Would be much apreciated. Thanks.
Jan
My own experience with this setup was a complete fail. I gave up. Fortunately I was in the position of being able to return the Oxygen Pro under a thirty day returns policy with the supplier. Cutting a very long story short I purchased an Arturia Keylab essentials 61. The integration with Cubase12 was ok but I found the actual keyboard very clacky and perhaps a bit cheap so that went back as well, I found some more money and went for the Keylab 61 MK11. It is the best result I could have hoped for. Integration with Cubase12 was seamless. Set-up was a breeze. The build quality is really good and the bundled software loaded up easily. I added a sustain pedal and have loved using this keyboard ever since. I really cannot praise it enough. I would say however that I was not a fan of the white and begrudgingly paid the extra to find a black one. FYI. I purchased and returned these keybaords from BAX Music online. I had no trouble with the returns process and would trust them again.
I bought the Black Keylab MK11 61 from them as a B stock item, it was absolutely as brand new , just as described. It was a returned product. ÂŁ447
well worth the money.
my tips on a windows 10 PC, running Cubase Artist 13; Set up an account with ARTURIA (https://www.arturia.com/) make sure to download and run Arturia’s software center and the Midi control center . All the info you need is there.
When using with Cubase, make sure the keylab is switched on before booting up the DAW, it wont see your keyboard properly if you don’t.
I hope this helps.
Steve
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Oxygen Pro should be used with Mackie Control and set to the Cubase Preset for Cubase Pro. MIDI Remote isn’t worth the work. Works great otherwise, just no takeover for pots and faders.
Its a better controller than the Launchkey MK3 and Keylab Essential, IMO.
Keylab MK2 is a different tier of controller hardware. Personally, I’d probably get a Novation SL3 over that one. It’s really underratrd.
HI, nice to hear those other keys work well for you.
Although that was not the info i was looking for.
For now i will stick to standard Mackie Control.
Still a shame that the recently published MIDI Remote profile from M-audio is not working, because mapping control from inside Cubase would have been nice.
My support ticket is still waiting for an adequate answer from M-audio.
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Hi, everyone,
sorry for my absence but I was on vacation …
So to answer quickly.
If you’re using the oxygen in DAW control then you’re in Mackie protocol. I don’t need to control cubase with oxygen. The faders are not motorized, so the mouse is more practical.
For vsti and plugins, however, I use the PRESET mode. This is in midi protocol. I had a hard time finding a solution to control Sylenth 1 (it’s a vsti with lots of knobs and faders).
For me, the solution was to use the quicks controls. And to understand that quicks controls are not reduced to 8!
So I learned to use the quicks control editor (see photo). I use 256 QCs to control Sylenth1. On the MIDI remote side, it’s very simple, but on the QC edition side, it’s very long and tedious.
For me, it works the way I want it to, even if it’s a bit long between QC page changes.
On the second capture (sorry it’s in French).
One last important detail about the oxygen controller: you can choose what the buttons under the faders are used for. You’ll need to set them to MIDI if you want to use them to control plugins.
I hope this helps you to see things more clearly.
M-Audio has a Support Page that describes exactly how to configure Cubase, so that the Oxygen devices work immediately.