+1

let me clarify as some are getting the wrong idea (or im not explaing very well). I like other ppl's work, use to use it a lot, but these days i prefer to roll my own, its my own personal choice. I dont feel obliged to use other ppl sounds and nor should anyone. I have a lot of respect for ppl who are good at what they do in any field. Im not saying anyones work is worthless cos i dont use it, far from it.

I would say all my sounds in the last 5-7 years have come from beta testing synths. These usually come with zero sounds in alpha/beta stages, and when im testing i make sounds as part of that. 80% are crap and get deleted and i keep the ones i like. Some go into factory banks, some dont. This is how i work all the time now, blank slate, start afresh....

By the time testing is finished the last thing i feel like doing is going thru 3000 presets. I listen to a lot of them anyway while testing, ppl always put up small audio demos for other testers to check out etc...

make sense or am i wasting my time?

Just create a "normalized" patch and save it as a preset that you can call up as a starting point.