AE Machine Preset Tour: This Is Just the Test Bench

video upload by Emiliano

"Six minutes through the factory bank of AE Machine, one preset after another, no edits, no post processing.

Two things worth knowing while you listen. First: a preset here is not a knob snapshot. It dresses the entire machine on recall: the voices, the Markov matrix, the modulation, and on the sampler side its own samples, slice analysis, loop region and playback state. Load a preset and the instrument arrives fully clothed.

Second, and this is the part I care about: what you hear in this video is a proving ground, not the point. Behind the factory bank sits a generative preset Assembler. You give it a numeric seed and it breeds entire banks from a mother and a father preset, with probability weights deciding how far each family drifts. Same seed, same bank, forever: your favourite accident becomes repeatable. The factory presets are simply the ones I kept while testing it.

The sample side is handled by a built in library manager: load audio from anywhere and the machine quietly keeps its own copy, so presets never lose their samples, and assigning or unloading a sampler works the way a hardware box would do it.

Monitors or good headphones recommended, most of this lives in the low end.

AE Machine releases October 2.

Launch price for the first days, then it goes up. Manual and details: https://www.peamarte.it/ae"

See the announcement post here.