![]() ![]() The look and the layout of this new version is pretty much identical to the MkIV: same eight knobs, same eight pads, single fader, mod/pitch wheels, three‑digit LCD display. It’s quite reassuring that M‑Audio haven’t gone down the elegance route of so many of their competitors and instead are keeping it real with substantial plastic shells that feel like they’re going to survive a chaotic live environment. These are not the stylish controllers that you’d be too scared to take out of your Instagram‑curated studio space, no, these are the chunky controllers that get pulled out of rucksacks at Electronic Music Open Mic Nights covered in stickers and graffiti with probably a bit of gaffer tape to keep the sides on. They were chunky then and they’re chunky now. The Oxygen 25 MkV that I have before me definitely has shades of the original MIDIMAN Oxygen8 that first arrived in 2002. It often feels like these M‑Audio Oxygen MIDI Controllers have been around forever. M‑Audio’s trusty MIDI controller workhorse treads indefatigably onwards.
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