Presonus Atom SQ

Get to steppin'

Modern musicians, performers, and producers need to move quickly from programming drums and samples to playing synth lines and back again. ATOM SQ was designed as a versatile and expressive MIDI pad controller for contemporary music production. Its unique design is optimized for both classic TR-style, 16-step beat sequencing and drum-pattern editing in Studio One® or playing instruments and launching clips in Ableton® Live—yet its staggered and RGB-lit 32-pad configuration is instantly familiar to anyone who has played a controller keyboard. Advanced features let you change the keyboard scale, and a built-in arpeggiator and user-configurable touch strip make the ATOM SQ the most expressive controller you’ll ever use. In fact, it’s the best PreSonus® Studio One MIDI controller available.

Control for the best step sequencer at your fingertips

Deep integration with Studio One’s Pattern Editor allows for evolving step sequences that will bring your productions to life. Insert a pattern, change its length, add new variations, and change scales—right from the ATOM SQ. Need to make changes on the fly? ATOM SQ lets you open the Studio One Pattern Editor, select and edit steps individually, and even copy, paste, duplicate, and delete events, all using tactile controls. You’ll build compositions faster than ever before using the built-in step sequencer in Studio One and ATOM SQ. It’s fast and easy for anyone who knows how to program a drum machine. Experimenting yields particularly rewarding results because ATOM SQ can constrain your performance to the scale of your choice. No more wrong notes!

A complete production toolkit

Included with ATOM SQ, Studio One Artist music production software enables you to compose, record, and produce without getting distracted by the tools or hemmed in with track limitations. Easy to learn and intuitive to use, Studio One’s unique drag-and-drop workflow and powerful tools will let you produce faster than ever before. Also included are two carefully-curated loop libraries with custom Impact XT kits. New to version 5: Studio One Artist now lets you use your favorite third-party VST and AU plug-in effects and virtual instruments. You also now have complete support for Studio One Remote so you can use your iPad® or Android™ tablet as a second screen or a remote Studio One controller. And with ATOM SQ, you have the most flexible PreSonus Studio One MIDI controller available.

Ableton Live integration and more

ATOM SQ is also a unique Ableton Live controller, designed for production and live performance. You can launch clips and scenes during a performance, select devices and edit parameters, navigate tracks and scenes, control each track’s volume, panning, and send levels—plus do all your drum programming in Ableton from the ATOM SQ! Ableton Live Lite is included, so you can get to creating right away. It comes with all of Live’s essential workflows, instruments, and effects—everything you need to record songs, create hands-on with your controller, take music made in your apps further, and so much more.

However, wherever

ATOM SQ is highly configurable. You can freely remap instrument parameters to different hardware controls, so your rotary encoders can control everything from filter cutoff to drum tuning, for the ultimate drum programming experience. You can colorize the RGB LEDs as you please to color-code your loops and samples. ATOM SQ’s LCD screen is used to display context-sensitive information, and uses a dynamic button system that changes functions depending on the task at hand. Need to add more swing to your arpeggiator or change the CC assignment of a controller? The LCD screen details functions you need, right when you need them for the job at hand.

Navigation and transport control

ATOM SQ is more than an expressive pad controller—it also lets you navigate many aspects of Studio One without a mouse and keyboard. You’ve got transport controls for stop, play, and record, plus a dedicated Click Track toggle. You can even zoom in and out of your timeline and navigate among your tracks, all without skipping a beat.

Wherever sound takes you...

With its unique staggered-pad layout, contextual screen design, and customization tools, ATOM SQ lets you stay in the moment of creation. Its small-footprint, USB bus-powered design means you can slip it right into your bag and produce anywhere you and your laptop might happen to go, and the complete suite of integrated software lets you start creating right out of the box. Whether you’re in the studio, on stage, or on the road, ATOM SQ gives you the freedom to create, wherever sound takes you.

Apple Silicon M1, iOS, and iPadOS compatibility—standard.

The PreSonus ATOM SQ is natively compatible with Apple Silicon M1-based Mac computers*, as well as iOS and iPadOS devices, including iPad Pro, iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPod Touch, and iPhone. Because it's USB class-compliant, there are no special drivers or applications to download and install. You'll be able to produce on the go—everything from podcasts to folk rock to trap—wherever sound takes you.

Make your own magic

At PreSonus, we want to make sure that our audio products come with everything you need to craft your own mesmerizing spells in the studio. That's why we include Studio One Artist with every audio interface and controller product we make, from the 2-channel AudioBox USB 96 to the 64-channel StudioLive 64S, ATOM to FaderPort 16, but we didn't stop there. Why? Because here in Louisiana, we have a word: lagniappe. It means "a little something extra," and it's in that spirit that we also include the Studio Magic Suite of software with our audio interface products and–new for 2021–our award-winning controllers as well.

New additions to the Studio Magic 2021 edition include:

PreSonus® has updated its popular Studio Magic Suite for macOS® and Windows®. An amazing $1,099 value that is provided free to new and existing registered owners of any currently available PreSonus audio interface or mixer, the 2021 Studio Magic Suite software bundle now includes popular standalone applications; plug-in effects and virtual instruments in VST, AU (Mac), and AAX formats; lessons; and more.

Arturia Analog Lab Intro delivers some of the most iconic synth and keyboard sounds of all time, taken from Arturia’s 28 expertly crafted V Collection instrument emulations. From analog synthesizers to revolutionary digital workstations, these are sounds that made history.

Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus Synthesizer is an authentic re-creation of the Realistic MG-1 synthesizer sold in Radio Shack stores in the 1980s. The Surrealistic MG-1 Plus delivers fat analog tone in spades, along with a unique polyphonic oscillator section, "bell tone" ring modulation, glide, auto-repeat note triggering, oscillator sync, and a number of improvements that tremendously expand its capabilities.

Ghosthack Essential Sounds is the perfect sound pack for music producers and content creators alike, delivering professional one-shots, loops, MIDI files, and full music tracks.

UJAM Virtual Bassist ROWDY is your loudmouthed, high-energy bassist with bite! ROWDY adds picked, overdriven electric bass sounds to your track that are suitable for a variety of styles, from powerful punk to rock and modern metal. If your bass has to cut through heavy drums and a wall of guitars, ROWDY is the solution.

The 2021 edition of Studio Magic Suite also now includes a three-month subscription to Soundsnap, home to over 380,00 high-quality, project-ready sound effects. Soundsnap members include some of the biggest names in film sound, podcasting, game design, and music production.

Of course the 2021 edition of Studio Magic Suite still contains your favorites from the 2020 edition.

Back by popular demand are Ableton Live Lite DAW, Brainworx bx_opto compressor and bx_rockrack guitar-amp modeling plug-in, Cherry Audio Voltage Nucleus modular synthesizer, iZotope Neutron Elements compressor/EQ/exciter/transient shaper, Klanghelm SDRR2tube multi-purpose processor, KV331 Audio Synthmaster Player semi-modular synth, Lexicon MPX-i Reverb, Mäag Audio EQ2 two-band equalizer, Melodics custom piano lessons, Native Instruments Replika delay plug-in, Output Movement rhythm processor, Plugin Alliance SPL Attacker Plus attack-event amplifier, and UVI Model D concert grand piano.