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My question has to do with a recent purchase, a MIDI keyboard controller. It's an M Audio Oxygen 49, and I've just learned what a DAW is (digital audio work station, right?). Other than playing music into PT, would I be able to use some of the other bells and whistles to make the program do things (Rec, PB, FFWD, etc.). Also, This is a new computer running WIN 7 64, and I hope this won't complicate things. If you have any words of encouragement/instruction, please respond. Thank you! 
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I've been using PT extensively for over nine years. I play only the piano, but have used PT to write and/edit scores for accompaniment (voices, bass and rhythm). I use it mostly for editing my inevitable mistakes in midis I've recorded live (is anyone perfect?).
By editing, I mean changing the velocities of notes, copying and pasting in intros or endings, or combining several takes (selecting the best parts).
As a primarily solo player, it's really all I need - plus a good piano sound.
Glenn
PS - I use Pianoteq for the piano sound - the onboard sound of digital pianos is lifeless and boring, and they are all looped. Samples have reached their peak - their sound isn't going to get better than it is, and the next edition of Pianoteq will make samples sound like the old technology it is.
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My question has to do with certain functions on a keyboard controller that, when configured properly to a software program, allow you to operate things like start/stop, record/playback volume, track selection, etc., from the keyboard controller instead of having to go to your computer keyboard for such things. For example, The M Audio keyboard I'm getting will, out of the box, give one control of Pro Tools from the controller. There are drivers at M Audio for other software programs that allow the same type of control. The nearest thing to it I can find is a reference in the PT manual about some wireless interface that gives you this kind of functionality, but I don't want to go wireless. I am willing to set everything up manually if need be; I just need to know how and what to use. This has nothing to do with piano or any other sound. I just want to get more functional use of the controller keyboard.
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I'm not sure about the Oxygen. Some MIDI messages are pretty common messages, and some features like the start stop work, if you set the program to accept certain things. It is pretty hit and miss though, mostly because a lot of those features aren't really 'standardized' officially. Can't say if it will or won't work that way. I had workstations I was able to get pretty well sync'd to PT (reading start/stop and even song position ponter), but I had other workstations of the same brand that didn't. And that has happened with more than one brand (I am a Roland guy, and my friend Barry is a Yammie guy).
I'd send an email to support, they probably do have access to that info. More than any of us users would for specific brands, etc. Just a thought. Support button at top leads to a special 'sales' section, worth clicking. They even have Live Chat now.
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I did send an email to support, and although there isn't any direct path to using transport controls from the keyboard, they suggested tying in transport controls and the keyboard macros, so I'm going to try that. Anyway, thanks for your input.
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