I was thinking about getting me one of these beauties http://www.midiman.net/products/midiman/ozone.php to hook up to my laptop. Anbody seen 'em out in the wild already or is this still a to be released thingie ? Would be nice in combination with renoise no ?
I dunno of this one , but I know that USB audio and midi is still problematic running windows .
those work extremly nice. i have the oxygen 8 though by the same company. basically the same board, cept only 8 knobs. actually that one comes with 8 knobs as well. i dunno why the pic shows 16. anyways the setup was extremly easy to do, just pluged it in, click, click, click xp did everything. i have yet to have a problem. the unit is sturdy to. i’ve droped it a dozen times or so and no problems.
399$ is a very high price according to me:
at least, I can’t figure out what’s the aim of that “Built-in 2 x 2 24-bit/96kHz audio interface”.
I would prefer paying it half than this without the audio interface.
yea. then your best bet is to go with the oxygen 8. i got mine for 240$can (156$us). it’s the same thing except without all the extra stuff on the back.
well, the Oxigen8 is a very good thingie indeed, but buying and shipping it to Italy costs about an half of the price I’ve payed my 88 weigthed keys MIDI controller 
undoubtably my keyboard is not portable: before buying it, I thought that “weigthed keys” meant that they give you the real feel and velocity sensitivity, but then I realized that each key is heavier than a normal one 
