It works well, making experimenting with arrangement ideas easy. At the top of the interface, the Arranger Track provides quick arrangement editing, with moving, inserting, copying and deleting of sections, which are created manually or generated from the Marker list. On to the more functional side of things. With Presence XT, we really like the choice of keyswitch articulations for many of the sounds, including the electric basses and orchestrals - for a bundled library, it ain't half bad.įor session compatibility, v3 includes all the v2 sample packs, such as those by Nine Volt Audio Guitars and Vengeance, while new packs from MVP Loops, Big Fish Audio and Sample Magic add 4000+ new loops and one-shots in PreSonus' 'audioloop' tempo matching format. However, its 200+ presets are rather good, particularly the edgy sounds in the Heavy Artillery folder. Neither instrument is particularly groundbreaking, and Mai Tai's two-oscillators-plus-sub-oscillators-and-noise-generator formula is wholly unremarkable and available in any number of free alternatives. PreSonus says that a Presence Editor option offering such functionality is in the works, and it will be a paid-for add-on via the PreSonus shop. It's worth saying that Presence XT, although capable of importing third party sampler patches (EXS, Kontakt, Giga and SoundFont, most pertinently) and badged as a "sampler", remains a sample playback instrument with no user accessible sample import, editing, layering and so on.
Presence XT's 14GB library includes pianos, strings, tuned percussion, guitars, brass, basses and a few vintage synth sounds.
Studio One 3's bundled content has been given a big boost, the headlines being the new Mai Tai polyphonic virtual analogue synth and updated Presence XT sampler, both of which are powered by an entirely rebuilt instrument engine.īoth instruments sport single-window GUIs with parameter modulation (16 slots), effects (Modulation, Delay, Reverb, Gater, EQ, Distortion and Panner) and the virtual keyboard housed in two foldaway panels. Here we are at Studio One 3, then, which sees the mid-range Producer option binned, and the remaining Professional (which we're reviewing here) and Artist options joined by Studio One Prime (which is still to be released at the time of writing), replacing Studio One Free.
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