Perhaps the biggest innovation in Ensemble Pro 5 is the Audio Input. When you're in a hurry or just need minimum interruption to the creative flow, it can be a real saviour. Consequently, you can often get more instances of certain plugs in Ensemble than in your DAW when running them in the same machine. This makes changing your mind less traumatic and keeps your DAW session far less cluttered.Įnsemble also has one other great advantage: it's incredibly efficient as an instrument host. The same thing goes for synths: we can now load a template with every machine set to our favourite bass sound, string patch or sequence part with just one command. Now when we want strings (four separate samplers with five instruments each), we just call up the relevant template - all the samples get loaded up in a flash, and at worst all we have to do in the DAW is make a new instrument track or two.
We've built up a library of them, each with different combinations of instruments and FX.
Most of us have a few template sessions in our DAW that we can launch depending on what type of track we're going to record - but what happens when you've started working on something and realise that you should have used a different template?Įnsemble enables you to save as many different templates as you like. With a Learn button on both the source and destination, it couldn't be easier. There's a pull-down menu that enables you to assign these quickly and efficiently, and you can access MIDI controllers too.
Previously plug-in automation was a bit clunky, because it could only be done via MIDI, but now if you press the Use For Automation button on the Event Input you can access 512 automation parameters directly from your DAW channel. If your DAW supports VST3 or RTAS you won't need this, but for many it will be a real revelation because of the new automation possibilities. You can use Event Inputs to get beyond the limits of AU and VST2 and have lots more virtual instruments in one instance (you can have as many Event Inputs as you want). Pro 5 features a new virtual instrument plug called Event Input - launch this as a multi-timbral instrument channel on your DAW and you get 16 more MIDI channels available in Pro 5.
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