I agree, legacy baggage can be a big problem as can just adding new features and new features on top of something. Pretty soon doing anything is so complicated you want to pull your hair out. I think the deluge is starting to suffer from this as well. I am a Bitwig user so I know how nice a clean slate can be. Hapax is supposedly designed from the ground up by an experienced team too, so we will see 
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May god smile upon their marriage, eternal solvency, and my desire to shoppe gaily in an abundant marketplace of of capable, high-resolution multichannel midi sequencers.
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That’s what I’m hoping – I use Bitwig now too!
I’m not really sure what to think about this. So similar to Oxi One that it feels like a bit of a rip off.
Much bigger and heavier of course.
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Well, against my better judgment, I ordered. Was eyeing a Pyramid but the ability to record MPE off my Linnstrument sealed the deal. I also have a Vector which is great but is also different. I don’t imagine I’ll keep both in the long run.
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Can you record the random and other effects to a neighbor track?
Or just regular chords with each note having a different velocity.
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I did record a chain of LFOs into another track (track 1 cv plugged into input CV A and track2 set to record it. nice feature: the screen becomes an oscilloscope) but never tried melody contents. But if you want something random to repeat, the randomizer is better.
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I’d be curious to hear more about this, mostly because I’m ignorant when it comes to the OXI. And, of course, I’m ignorant of the Hapax, too
But reading over the manual, so much of it reads like an evolved Pyramid — that feels like the most likely line of inspiration. Unless the OXI has more Pyramid-like features than I at first assumed? Or there’s some particularly unique OXI-ism at play that I don’t recognize.
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You seem very certain of this – but I have to say this is not my experience at all. I absolutely can send a midi sequence to my Rytm and A4 and also p-lock parameters and add notes on either/both elektron internal sequencers. I can even set, say, a 5 step loop on the electron sequencer and p-lock filter positions while playing a 64 step MIDI pattern to the boxes. Perhaps we have the devices set differently but it is definitely possible (and something I love to do!)
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OXI vs Hapax seems like a trade off between
and
I sort of want something ‘good’ that gives me a tactile, non computer surface with some tricks, but if I’m getting complicated I’ll resign myself to the old mouse, keyboard and monitor approach rather than down a hardware tunnel.
Perhaps it boils down to a ratio between the number and complexity of your hardware units vs the complexity of your controller/sequencer and how detailed and flexible you want to get.
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lmaooo where do they find these
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Won’t it just be midi data though? Or have I missed something
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Perhaps they have a plan.
The CV outs might one day see a AC/DC coupled line-level/modular switch.
Because 2GB to store project files containing MIDI data seems a bit much.
Are they saying that it only has storage enough to store two projects?
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no, 2 projects can be used at the same time but you can store as many projects as the SD card can save.
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Macgyver fans will be happy.
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I doubt they went from seeing the oxi indigogo less then a year ago to producing a full production unit. I think it is just a matter of them having a few very mature sequencers on the market, listening to their user base, and growing in that space they’ve been in for 5-7 years already.
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Cable diversity. The nice thing about having many USB C devices is reaching the point where you are most likely to have a usable cable and/or charger nearby without fuss. I have finally reached the place where even USB micro is only necessary for a handful of my devices. If I am throwing things in a bag, it’s nice not to have to remember multiple kinds of cables and just think “USB C”.
Not a dealbreaker for me or anything and I understand that bandwidth isn’t much of a concern but I agree that it would have been nice in this new device.
