Amen. If you've got Albino 2, Oddity, FM7 or any other of the NI synths, plus Synth 1 'cause it's free, you've probably got over 4,800 presets at your fingertips. So if anyone's geek enough to pick out what preset you're using on any given song . . . they've got way too much time on their hands and should probably invest more energy in getting a life.DevonB wrote:Worrying about the less than 1% of people in the world that are VSTi musicians listening to your music and 'recognizing' a sound, I think is silly.
I didn't respond to the poll becuase . . . I use them, I change them to sound like somehting else, and I use them for inspiration. If a preset inspires me to write a particular song, then I build the song up around that one preset and only tweak the preset enough for it to fit into a mix. But when I'm adding a synth to an already-in-progress song, I find a preset close to what I want and change it (sometimes drastically) so it fits my needs. And when I'm doing sound desig, I often use presets as a springboard, investigating a preset that does something unique, find out what it does, capitalize on the re-engineering process and apply it to something totally new.
I'm a pragmatist. Use what works. Change what doesn't. Learn from others. The end result is what's important, not the ethical pretense of how one "should" work.