This sits in the Instrument track Inspector and gives access to four effects: Arpeggiator, Chorder, Filter and Repeater. On the effects front, there are two new audio processors - Rotor (a Leslie cabinet) and BitCrusher - and the introduction of MIDI effects via the new Note FX module. The Scratch Pad also includes its own Arranger Track, enabling easy insertion of whole sections. When you've come up with something you like, drag your edited parts back over. You simply drag parts in from the arrange view to copy them over, and use the Scratch Pad like a second arrange view with independent playback. The new Scratch Pad panel opens to the right of the Arrange view, providing a temporary area in which to try out alternative ideas. 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.
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