CAPTURING LIFE WITH SAMPLE ONE XT IN STUDIO ONE
Last time we looked at Impact XT and saw that it’s a very useful and powerful drum sampler. Following on this month, let’s look at another of Presonus’ unsung heroes – Sample One XT. But first, a very brief history…
Prior to the development of samplers, one could only craft tones on synthesisers, but trying to recreate realistic sounds was nearly impossible. Then samplers came along and allowed us to record real sounds and use synthesis techniques to modify those sounds to our own needs. Samplers were not really commercially available for the masses, however, until the mid-1980’s due to the lofty prices of the earliest samplers. With the introduction of affordable samplers from Ensoniq, EMU, Korg, Roland and Akai, the world went sample-crazy. But, though sampling was now affordable, sampling time was very limited due to
