I dunno. Not a big fan of Presence, or any bundled instruments that I cannot use in another DAW. It offers something for new DAW users that have not yet invested in Kontakt, for example. It you want to create sample instruments, Kontakt is the 800lb gorilla, if you wish to float the mainstream.aMUSEd wrote:Yeah but I don't get that, why only enable audio sampling in the cut down mini sampler but not the fully fledged sampler that can actually create sample instruments? (if addon enabled). For that matter why have the 2 of them anyway?zzz00m wrote:Sample One XT is the new upgraded drag and drop Sample One sampler. It actually samples live now.aMUSEd wrote: btw is this the same sampler in S1 3 that you have to pay to add editing features to? So is there still an additional cost if you want to actually create your own instruments?
Presence XT is the included sample player instrument with the core instrument libraries.
The "What's New" page at Presonus has "Virtual Instruments – Presence XT Editor" listed with a few new features, but it's not clear if that editor is now included with the DAW, or just referenceing an upgrade to the paid editor add-on.
https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One/whats-new
But from what I have seen and read, Sample One XT may be the best sampler yet integrated with any core DAW. Not for creating instruments, but for capturing sounds from any source, including inputs, tracks, virtual instruments, and then slicing, looping, mangling them, etc. So it looks like a great workflow for capturing and workng with raw samples. This and the new step sequencer will probably make a lot of beats and loops musicians very happy.
PreSonus—Marcus Huyskens Studio One 4 tips: Sample One XT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OMEiuHLHM