I would suggest that very few people on KVR will ignore presets. It is quite clear to me that many people's entire opinion of any synth is based on listening to the presets and nothing more. See below for an example of what I mean. I have no idea how many presets HY-Poly comes with but it's a decent amount, maybe in the ball park of 200? Possibly more.
zvenx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:30 am
For me it is sound, sound, sound, ........ and features coming further down in the list...
Of course sound comes first and HY-Poly sounds great. But, of course, you can't necessarily get good sound without features - cross-mod for FM and Hard Sync, Unison, sub-oscillators for a bigger sound, envelopes with slope adjustment, etc., etc. One or the other on its own is useless, you need both.
To be fair, that's an area where OBsession surprised me - it has a lot of features for so few controls, but things like Hard Sync are pretty gentle and the X-Mod is very limited. Neither are all that useful. That is reflected in the uses I have so far found for it, which are all fairly generic parts that I could probably have used anything for. I prefer bx_oberhausen - it is a lot rawer and it's filter is much better, both in sound and flexibility - and I have found a couple of uses for it where it is the pivotal part of a piece, as well as using it for more mundane chores.