In 3000 years, in the Treasures of the Lost Universe museum, there will be a special hermetically sealed exhibit. One of these will be in it. Plaque will say: “exhibit A: ATOM - early technological man apparently believed the whole universe was constructed of these ATOMs. While there are mentions to a larger structure, called MOLECULE, no remains of that construct have been found.”
Ergonomics. You're looking at the controller, then inspecting the monitor. That's a lot of up down/up down. An oLED screen for visual feedback on parameter changes, metering, tempo, and other useful functionality and doubling the price would be far more value. At $300 that would be still more affordable than most native-to-DAW controllers.
I just got this and I like the MPC-like pads. What would be cool though (same for the SQ) is if the encoders would have small oled's that show what is assigned at the moment including the current value when touched/changed. This will make the controller more expensive though but it would be so helpful.
Not bad for just $150. As a long time Studio One user, I needed this 7 years ago before Native Instruments milked so much cash from me. The fact you're sequencing directly in the DAW cuts a couple of steps really. In the future, I'd like to see some sort of shared integration between Atom and the Presonus' control surfaces utilizing the displays and touch-sensitive faders for sequencing and editing. Imagine a couple of Atoms and a Faderport 16 as huge production super-controller...an uber-Maschine if you will.
The most important thing which never gets mentioned in reviews of pad controllers is pad sensitivity. I have AKAIMPD218, sensitivity is O.K, but I want a pad controller WAY MORE SENSITIVE to be playable as a musical instrument. Even MashineMK3 pads, which seem to be the most sensitive so far could be more sensitive. Hope someone will bring out a higher quality set of pads with top of the line pad sensitivity, metal chassis, hard carry case etc. Just a top quality pad controller...where are they everything is sub-par or paired with some particular software. Just a super top quality set of pads, no knobs, nothing PAD SENSITIVITY!!! Id imagine the knobs at the top will obstruct your drumming. To be honest knob controller can be separate from pad controller, keep it just pads, then you can put it in a backpack without knobs breaking...flat profile. best pads so far ableton push2 and Mashine MK3...best budget pads...AKAIMPD218, This - Presonus atom and Korg Padkontrol...anyone tried a zendrum? Zendrum might still have best pad sensitivity or so Ive heard
and another thing, people need to change padbank live, whilst drumming. Theres no time for press padbank button then hit a pad..needs to be 8 dedicated pad bank buttons....and I may want to change padbank in any order, not only ascending, descending
Can I program sound effects (ie clapping, scream, suspense sound effect) from my hard drive into the keypads on the Presonus Atom so that I can use them for my podcast?
Just don't get the point of this. Studio One is drag and drop. Takes a few seconds to load an impact kit. Here, using the controller, press browse, scroll to your instrument, scroll to the preset. Much slower. Also, things like quantise is a shift function which is just daft as it means having to press 2 buttons, as is the step sequencer on the controller which starts bottom left (pad 1) to top right (pad 16) so goes in the opposite direction to the software. Really?
Cool Can you help me with exactly the right choice of what I need for a home studio.. I know i'm asking for your time, but you seem to know what you're talking about. And that was about to buy the shit here til I read your comment
Yes but it is more integrated with the studio one. (ie. the pads respond to midi notes in the daw, etc) When not connected to that, it is class compliant (usb) midi - but it's pads, set for drums, follow the mpc midi#'s.
