Oxygen8 and more...

Hello Folks,

I am kind of new to this music production. I primarily work in Adobe Audition 2.0. I also do some work in Sound Forge 8. Also, I plan to purchase Acid Pro 6 and Pro-Tools M-Powered 7. My problem is that I own an M-Audio Oxygen 8 midi-controller. But, I cannot get it to work- at all…

I am thinking about purchasing an M-Audio Axiom 25 to replace the Oxygen 8 because it looks like it is much more intuitive and is compatible with M-Audio’s Enigma software. That seems to be a good route for the midi-illiterate like myself.

I have a few questions:

1)   Can I get the Oxygen 8 to work with Audition? If so how?
2)   Will the Oxygen 8 work with Sound Forge? If so, how?
3)   Will the Axiom 25 work any better with the programs I use or ones I plan to purchase? If so how?
4)   Are there any video/online courses available for people like me?

Thank you for reading my long plea for help.

Frustrated,
Mike

hi mike,

the Oxygen8 can be used for some basic MIDI control triggering, but Audition does not support MIDI music creation.  So you won't be able to use your keyboard within Audition to record music.  You can use features such as ReWire to use the O8 with a synth app, such as Reason, and pipe the audio from this app into Audition.  Alternatively, there are a few VST's that act as a container for VSTi synthesizers and instruments.  Generally, these are still a little spotty, but can be used entirely within Audition to play and record music, however it is the VST effect that is accessing the Midi controller and not Audition.