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yoTrakkz « Nice and easy »
Published on 11/09/11 at 00:31The M Audio Ozonic is a pretty good midi controller, its one of the first ones that I had a chance to use. There are enough sliders that you can program all of your knobs in your digital audio workstation to them and be good too go. This keyboard is like all of the other thousands of midi controllers on the market, the only thing that stands out is that it has a lit up LED screen to navigate with and set up your programs with. You don’t have to set up programs in order to use it though, so if your just looking to hook it up and play look at some midi controllers without a screen because you don’t have to have it to use it. Its for more advanced users.
UTILIZATION
I prefer the 88 over the smaller sizes for no restrictions on creativity! Just make sure you do research on what OS you have (ex: win7 64bit, win vista, etc) even if it says there are no drivers available on their site for Win 7, windows 7 has a built in midi driver. It works good, just do research on your ASIO stuff as well!
OVERALL OPINION
The feel of the semi-weighted keys is different than a regular piano, but easy to get used to. I didn't even bother to read the manual I just hooked it up to my Mac right out of the box and started playing in Garage Band. It's serviced me very well and I would recommend it to anyone who wants an 88-key midi controller and uses programs like Garage Band, FL Studio, Reason,
There are still (as of 11/2011) no 64bit windows drivers available from the M-Audio site. Which basically means, the device still works, but with only one program at once. So if that is a limitation you care about, maybe check on the M-Audio site to see if these drivers are available yet. This limitation is apparently not a factor on OSX.
UTILIZATION
I prefer the 88 over the smaller sizes for no restrictions on creativity! Just make sure you do research on what OS you have (ex: win7 64bit, win vista, etc) even if it says there are no drivers available on their site for Win 7, windows 7 has a built in midi driver. It works good, just do research on your ASIO stuff as well!
OVERALL OPINION
The feel of the semi-weighted keys is different than a regular piano, but easy to get used to. I didn't even bother to read the manual I just hooked it up to my Mac right out of the box and started playing in Garage Band. It's serviced me very well and I would recommend it to anyone who wants an 88-key midi controller and uses programs like Garage Band, FL Studio, Reason,
There are still (as of 11/2011) no 64bit windows drivers available from the M-Audio site. Which basically means, the device still works, but with only one program at once. So if that is a limitation you care about, maybe check on the M-Audio site to see if these drivers are available yet. This limitation is apparently not a factor on OSX.