Presonus Atom SQ MIDI Controller Keyboard Pad Announced: Pre-order Open

With Atom SQ, Presonus presents a MIDI Controller Keyboard Pad performance and production controller with deep Studio One integration and interesting features. Presonus Atom SQ has a unique design that is optimized for both TR-style 16-step beat sequencing and drum pattern editing in Studio One or playing instruments and RGB-lit 32-pad configuration.

Presonus Atom SQ MIDI Controller Keyboard Pad

In addition to the current Studio One version 5, Presonus also offers a hardware controller that extends the Atom range. Atom SQ is a versatile MIDI pad performance and production controller with USB-C bus, pressure-sensitive RGB LED pads, that do classic 16-step beat sequencing, playing instruments, and launching clips in Ableton Live.

The Atom SQ MIDI Keyboard offers a configurable touch strip, an arpeggiator, and options for working with different scales. Classic transport controls (stop, playback, recording …), a special click-track switch, eight endless encoders, and a zoom/reduce function are also available with which you can get in and out of the timeline and navigate between the tracks.

For a good overview, the Atom SQ controller offers an LCD screen display with a dynamic button system, which changes the function display depending on the task. The controller is also Ableton Live ready; this allows you to do detailed settings that support working with Ableton Live in a practical way.

MIDI Keyboard Pad performance and production controller

Presonus Atom SQ comes with the Studio One Artist DAW for composing and producing plus two loop MIDI libraries with user-defined Impact XT kits. New in version 5: With Studio One Artist, VST and AU plug-ins and virtual instruments from third parties can now also be used.

Price and availability

Presonus Atom SQ MIDI Controller Keyboard has been priced at $249.95 only and it can be pre-ordered via the Bhphptovideo.com online shop.

Earlier this year, the Grid Instrument from Novation at NAMM 2020 has introduced the Launchpad Pro MK3 MIDI controller with Ableton Live, as well as with external hardware.

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