He wasn't a software engineer, but he knew his way around MIDI. He looked at the input stream. It wasn't music. It was a conversation. The notes G-A-C-C# repeated over and over at 120 BPM.
For the producer suffering from option paralysis in the modern era, buying a $50 Dell Optiplex off Facebook Marketplace, installing XP, connecting an Oxygen 32, and booting Logic 5.5.1 is a form of therapy. emagic+logic+audio+platinum+5+5+1oxygen+32
If you find a dusty CD-R of 5.5.1 and a blue Oxygen controller at a garage sale, buy them. Install them. Make a terrible, beautiful, lo-fi loop. You’ll understand why we miss the "Emagic" era. He wasn't a software engineer, but he knew
In 2002, M-Audio released the —a 25-key USB MIDI controller. But there was also a rarer 32-key version (often retroactively called Oxygen 32). It was a conversation
