I'm scouting a synth/sampler/sound module with the most astonishing presets or samples (bundled). Regardless of the price, name your favorite and type of music you find it most useful in. I'd have to say Synth1's presets (since I don't own any commercial VSTi) are really great in sort of industrial-type rock/pop-thing. SampleTank XL and Atmosphere sure look interesting...

EVE!
great soundset, great presets and I want more of both..

z3ta+

Rhino.

still overall the finest preset collection I have heard.

really this is a matter of taste, isn't it?

Z3TA for a thick, opaque sound

ALBINO for shimmering analog very 'professional/classic' sounds -- I suspect even more so, when ver 2 is released soon

RHINO for transparent, layered, complex, evolving sound or simple stunning sound

gosh, I ain't too biased

I'd have to include TERA here as well, but I don't know quite how to describe what it can do -- something between rhino and albino with a number of its own special quirks thrown in -- specTera and formanTera can produce some amazing sounds. and I haven't exhausted my fascination with microTera yet.
There are something like 1100 presets with Tera, but the number is deceiving. Maybe a tenth of those really show what it can do. Of the synths above I think the most potential is still locked inside Tera.

RHINO would be my choice for the available presets that most realize what the synth can do. Daniel's 2 latest banks at nominal $10 usd each really are jaw dropping. Tim Conrardy has 4 banks for rhino. There's something like 10 or 11 banks in all now. And Big Tick has some multi-layered wav import feature coming soon, in addition to a little cleanup on DX7 sysex file import. Go Tick.

I think one measure of a great synth design is how it continues to be extended in the hands of some inspired sound designers -- and that's certainly true for all of the above. And then theres's how the synth makers keep extending the feature set, too. Really it might be hard to go wrong these days.

CS-80V

400 of them and many of them perfect as is or as base for further programming

Absynth.While most of the presets are space opera/oh my God! types,there's some good basses,organs,etc.in there as well.
ew

albino, z3ta, (when it's out) vanguard, and I would also have to say atmoshphere.

Z3ta+ - RM4 bloody good collection of included samples – Albino, staggering sound quality very smooth and sweet – and of course the latest update from Camel Audio for their additive synth, excellent preset management, probably the best preset management of any synth also the quality is fantastic.

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

hip79 ... Tim Conrady's done a great job of creating free Crystal presets. And Crystal also loads free soundfonts.

Just thought I'd mention the obvious freebie, before you spend $100 plus

But if money's no object, then let's see ...

Zeta, Albino, XPhraze, Atmosphere ... yeah ... buy them all 'cos they're all ferkin' great

And get BFD with the change

Z3ta+, Cameleon and Albino. All of these come with +600 quality presets!

Peter.

[quote="wrench45us"]There are something like 1100 presets with Tera, but the number is deceiving. Maybe a tenth of those really show what it can do./quote]

Interesting to see someone write the amount of presets in negative tone. I've always thought the more presets, the better. But that's probably the pianist in me. Certainly the device is "synthesizer" and presets at best only demonstrate and give bases to programming it.

kevvvvv wrote:

Zeta, Albino, XPhraze, Atmosphere ... yeah ... buy them all 'cos they're all ferkin' great

As soon as I've eaten. Daddy, more caviar!

reaktor

a lot packaged and an impressive user library online, also

regards!