Studio One

Impact XT is now right at home in the MIDI editor.

ROBIN VINCENT

With Studio One v7, PreSonus decided to pull the interface of their Impact drum machine into the Piano Roll/Drum/Note editor window. No more having to deal with floating windows when making beats or fiddling with samples. I wonder if this concept will spread to other instruments, because it is indeed very tidy. With the 7.1 update, PreSonus have doubled down on the Impact integration and put a few more bits and pieces within reach without having to load the full GUI. Just to recap, Impact XT is an MPC-style pad-based sample player designed for drum kits and percussive elements. It has eight banks of 16 pads that you can fill with samples, all within a single patch. These can be single one-shot hits, loops or instrument sounds, and you have…

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