Get to the Presonus Shop by way of the Presonus website or the files panel in Studio One 4.6 to see what’s out there. Additionally, there is a growing number of third-party companies out there making sample libraries for use in Presence XT. There are also enough ensemble instruments on offer to get a budding composer started scoring their first film. They cover all the bases that a composer would need to make quality band-style songs. We won’t dive too deeply into the libraries themselves, but just know that Presence XT – at its core – is a sample player, and these libraries are quite good.
The core library consists of 14 GB of sample instruments including the following: For Studio One Prime and Artist owners, this is an add-on. PreSonus includes a sizeable Presence XT Core Instrument Library for Studio One Professional 3 and 4 users. Let’s start with the most obvious use for Presence XT. At first glance, it looks like just a sampler player… and it is however, looking a little deeper (and with the right key) we can find some powerful tools that will turn Presence XT into, essentially, a highly usable sampler. Continuing our look at the built-in instruments in Studio One 4.6, it’s time to turn to Presence XT.
