“Flat” & “Sharp” keys: By pressing the MIDI/SELECT button and the flat or
the sharp key, you will shift the active keyboard pitch one note (half-step) higher,
or lower. For example, if you want to change the pitch 2 notes down, press
MIDI/SELECT button and the “flat” key twice. Press the MIDI/SELECT button to
finish the change.
To change the Oxygen 8’s octave range, press the MIDI/SELECT button, then the
“Octave Up” or “Octave Down” button however many times you wish to shift
the octave range. Press the MIDI/SELECT button to finish the change.
MIDI CHANNEL select: Pressing the MIDI/SELECT button and then pressing
the MIDI CHANNEL key allows you to select the transmitting channel for your
keyboard.The default Channel is 1 when the keyboard’s power is turned on.To
set the MIDI channel to 2, for example:
1. Press the MIDI/SELECT button.
2. Press the key labeled “MIDI CHANNEL”, on the keyboard.
3. Press the key labeled “2”, on the keyboard, then press the key labeled
“Enter”, also on the keyboard. Lastly, press the MIDI/SELECT button one
more time (this will change the MIDI transmit channel from 1 to 2.)
Control Change data entry by numeric keypad: Oxygen 8 allows you to
use the numeric keys, instead of the data entry slider, to specify the Control
Change parameter data. This is done by pressing the MIDI/SELECT button, CC
(No. or Data) key, required number key(s), and the Enter key. As an example, to
assign a Control Change value of 7, and CC Data value of 123:
1. Press the MIDI/SELECT button.
2. Press the CC No. key.
3. Press the key labeled “7”.
4. Press the Enter key, in order to specify the Control Change as 7.
5. Press the CC Data key.
6. Press the number keys 1, 2 and 3, in order.
7. Press the Enter key, to specify the value 123, then press the MIDI/SELECT
button.This completes the process.
Program key: Pressing the MIDI/SELECT button and the Program key, then
numeric keys, and finally the Enter key, you can select any patch number between
1 and 128. For example, if you want to change the voice to 67 (General MIDI
TenorSax), Press the MIDI/SELECT button and 6, 7 on the numeric keys, then
press the enter key and MIDI/SELECT button again to finish this action.
Please note: After you press the enter key, the LED display will show “—-
“ and will not disappear until you press the MIDI/SELECT button to finish
your choice. After you press the Cancel key,, the LED display will also show
blank, and will not disappear until you press the MIDI/SELECT button to
finish your choice.
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