Again, the Drum Editor is by no means a new invention, but PreSonus’ implementation is slick, elegant and attractive.
#Presonus studio one 4 download#
Preset drum maps are onboard for Impact XT (see XT, see?) and General MIDI, with more available to download from Studio One Exchange. Lanes can be moved up and down in the stack (grouping snares and claps, for example), named, colour-coded and hidden, and all unused lanes can be folded away at a click. The Drum Editor is essentially a percussion-appropriate alternative to the piano roll, appearing as a less regimented stack of horizontal lanes into which notes are drawn or painted as fixed-length triggers rather than stretchable bars. Studio One 4 introduces two new MIDI programming systems: the Drum Editor and Patterns. Granted, you’ll almost certainly want to re-record that focal guitar line once you’ve set it to a new progression, rather than commit to a processed version with its attendant artefacts (indeed, PreSonus themselves suggest doing exactly that) but the Chord Track is a hugely useful tool at the composition stage. Studio One 4 isn’t the first DAW with this kind of functionality, but it is currently the only one that works with polyphonic audio tracks as well as monophonic ones and MIDI parts, and the results with such material are pretty impressive - as long as shifts are kept reasonably small.
Algorithm-optimising Tune Modes to suit a range of instrument types include Piano, Guitar, Strings, etc. Individual analysed tracks are set to follow the Chord Track via a pair of menus in the Inspector, offering a choice of tracking styles: Parallel for slavish root note tracking, Narrow to shift individual notes to the new chord with as little movement as possible, Bass for monophonic basslines, Scale for targeting of all notes in the scale, and Universal for a lower quality alternative to Scale without the need for prior analysis.
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