Oxygen 8 and Reason 3.0

[Motioneso]

This really isn't what I would have chosen for my first post to be, but I am stuck and everyone here seems to be experienced in some sort of fashion, and the people in the M-audio and Propellerheads forum seemed to be unable to respond (although I asked quite some time ago... so not their fault)

I have an Oxygen 8 (the older model), but for some weird reason I can't get it to interface with Reason 3.0 on my desktop. I know this keyboard works, because I used it with Reason 2.5 and 3.0 on my Tablet PC for live shows and worship gigs, but I can't get it to interface with either version via the desktop.

The desktop itself finds the keyboard, and recognizes it as M-Audio USB Keystation...So I figured I would uninstall and install Reason again, so I do. After it's done loading up all the banks it does the auto Audio scan and even finds that I have the Oxygen 8 (older model) and says it will use that as the default control surface. So I am thinking sweet, it's working! But then I load up various instruments and I can't seem to have control over anything.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Ben
www.clairmontonline.com
www.myspace.com/clairmont

[ssscientist]

In Reason 3.04 the 'remote' features are spotty at best.

Even with a controller with enough knobs for everything (I have a BCR2000 tied to Reason) it still doesn't give you access to every single parameter. One example would be the Redrum - it only gives you control over the first eight channels leaving the last two begging.

Until Propellerheads design and market their own controller --- which may never happen --- you'll just have to use a combination of the controller and the mouse, like all the rest of us.

I have an old model Oxygen 8 too, and I got so frustrated trying to use is with Reason 3.04 that I gave up and tied it in elsewhere in my system.

[Motioneso]

It's not so much that things aren't working properly, it's just that things aren't working at all. For instance, if I load up the Subtractor I can't get any input single from the controller (the note on button never lights up), so I think something is just plain messed up somewhere

[altitude909]

Are you routing the master to the instrument track? Its the little keyboard next to the corresponding instrument in the sequencer pane

[ssscientist]

There's a drop-down menu that shows itself when you do a right-click on, for instance, the Subtractor which allows you to "lock to Oxygen 8" --- have you tried this yet?

[Motioneso]

Still no luck, so I am taking an alternate route. I just got a new 60gb harddrive for my Motion M1400 so I will be dedicating that drive simply to reason and nothing else. I figure that with 1gb of ram should do some pretty good stuff for live shows and recording. Thanks for the responses anyway!

Ben
www.clairmontonline.com
www.myspace.com/clairmont