Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This week I unboxed my new Oxi One hardware sequencer, and I am very excited for the possibilities!
I've been working on this track for just under a week, and I have completed my first track using the Oxi One, and mostly stock instruments from Bitwig. It's a lighter, more poppy instrumental track than my usual. It's also shorter and simpler in arrangement because the learning curve on that is steep on the One!
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Please like and subscribe, as it really does help my music reach more people!
I am an Australian living in Seattle, I am a coffee geek, and I enjoy making mostly ambient and Berlin School inspired music, with the occasional Synthwave track.
You can also find me on:
Bandcamp → artifonica.bandcamp.com
Facebook → facebook.com/artifonica
Spotify → artifonica.com
open.spotify.com/artist/6GCPgSF1z1VhtEbtTkOyyb
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# Process Notes
The Oxi One has been much more intuitive to use and fits into my workflow more readily than the Polyend Play - but that said hardware clock synchronization remains difficult!
One new workflow for me was to use the One connected to my iPad for the initial sequence and sketching out of the idea, and so I was able to work on the idea on the couch, or on the go even. This setup drove simple instruments AuM so I could get a feel of the vibe, and when it was developed enough, I then moved to my desktop and the bones were already in place!
As you can see in the video, I created many modulation sources from the One that I use to drive not only things like instrument parameter modulation but also selecting which tracks, or mix of tracks, is heard in a section.
I learned a lot of techniques that make a lot of the workflow much simpler than what I had done. Some in time to use it in the track: like the hidden CC modulation by LFOs... by default it goes to an internal target, not MIDI CCs but that you can get to it by shift-clicking the encoder.
Others were too late for this track but still learned for the next track: like learning that even though a sequencer is configured to send out on one MIDI channel, you can save clips that send on a different MIDI channel. That'll make instrument switching a lot easier! In this track there's a CC that is sent to the group lane, which then modulates the volume fader on each instrument track. Whereas in future I will put a MIDI channel filter on each instrument track that can filter on only the channels it wants to listen to!
Overall the experience with the Oxi one has been a great one and looks like it will open up new time and location opportunities to make music.
# Behind the Scenes
## Music
Created in Bitwig Studio 5.1, using:
- Arturia:
- Acid V
- SEM V2
- Rev LX-24
- Dist TUBE-CULTURE
- Comp TUBE-STA
- Tape MELLO-FI
- XLN:
- XO
- Native Instruments:
- Mysteria
- (iZotope) Ozone 10
- (iZotope) Tonal Balance Control 2
- Minimal Audio:
- Cluster Delay
- Dawesome:
- Love
- Valhalla:
- Shimmerverb
- TBProAudio:
- dpMeter 5
- Soundtheory:
- Gullfoss
- Fabfilter:
- Pro-L 2
## Video
Created in DaVinci Resolve 18.6, using:
- Affinity Photo 2 for the Artifonica device/logo and other photo touching up
- @MrAlexTech's Magic Animate
- MotionVFX's mReveal
## Keywords
Upbeat music for relaxing, chill, chillout, relax, relaxation, unwind, ambience, vocoder, Leftfield, IDM, Electro, calm, ethereal, Oxi Industries
This week I unboxed my new Oxi One hardware sequencer, and I am very excited for the possibilities!
I've been working on this track for just under a week, and I have completed my first track using the Oxi One, and mostly stock instruments from Bitwig. It's a lighter, more poppy instrumental track than my usual. It's also shorter and simpler in arrangement because the learning curve on that is steep on the One!
--------------------------------------------------
Please like and subscribe, as it really does help my music reach more people!
I am an Australian living in Seattle, I am a coffee geek, and I enjoy making mostly ambient and Berlin School inspired music, with the occasional Synthwave track.
You can also find me on:
Bandcamp → artifonica.bandcamp.com
Facebook → facebook.com/artifonica
Spotify → artifonica.com
open.spotify.com/artist/6GCPgSF1z1VhtEbtTkOyyb
--------------------------------------------------
# Process Notes
The Oxi One has been much more intuitive to use and fits into my workflow more readily than the Polyend Play - but that said hardware clock synchronization remains difficult!
One new workflow for me was to use the One connected to my iPad for the initial sequence and sketching out of the idea, and so I was able to work on the idea on the couch, or on the go even. This setup drove simple instruments AuM so I could get a feel of the vibe, and when it was developed enough, I then moved to my desktop and the bones were already in place!
As you can see in the video, I created many modulation sources from the One that I use to drive not only things like instrument parameter modulation but also selecting which tracks, or mix of tracks, is heard in a section.
I learned a lot of techniques that make a lot of the workflow much simpler than what I had done. Some in time to use it in the track: like the hidden CC modulation by LFOs... by default it goes to an internal target, not MIDI CCs but that you can get to it by shift-clicking the encoder.
Others were too late for this track but still learned for the next track: like learning that even though a sequencer is configured to send out on one MIDI channel, you can save clips that send on a different MIDI channel. That'll make instrument switching a lot easier! In this track there's a CC that is sent to the group lane, which then modulates the volume fader on each instrument track. Whereas in future I will put a MIDI channel filter on each instrument track that can filter on only the channels it wants to listen to!
Overall the experience with the Oxi one has been a great one and looks like it will open up new time and location opportunities to make music.
# Behind the Scenes
## Music
Created in Bitwig Studio 5.1, using:
- Arturia:
- Acid V
- SEM V2
- Rev LX-24
- Dist TUBE-CULTURE
- Comp TUBE-STA
- Tape MELLO-FI
- XLN:
- XO
- Native Instruments:
- Mysteria
- (iZotope) Ozone 10
- (iZotope) Tonal Balance Control 2
- Minimal Audio:
- Cluster Delay
- Dawesome:
- Love
- Valhalla:
- Shimmerverb
- TBProAudio:
- dpMeter 5
- Soundtheory:
- Gullfoss
- Fabfilter:
- Pro-L 2
## Video
Created in DaVinci Resolve 18.6, using:
- Affinity Photo 2 for the Artifonica device/logo and other photo touching up
- @MrAlexTech's Magic Animate
- MotionVFX's mReveal
## Keywords
Upbeat music for relaxing, chill, chillout, relax, relaxation, unwind, ambience, vocoder, Leftfield, IDM, Electro, calm, ethereal, Oxi Industries
