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spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:51 pm

I'm looking to acquiring a shedload of bread and butter presets. Usable presets, none of those 'sound great by themselves but you can never ever use them in a mix' sort of nonsense.

I'm not sure what my best option is.. either get presets for synths I have, which currently pretty much means synths that come with Logic or refills for Reason, or get one good bread and butter synth with a shedload of presets available.

The genre is mostly electronic, with tendencies to go ambient/ cinematic and a dose of old style trance.

Any suggestions?

I'm on a Mac.

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:57 pm

Predator

At last count I think the preset count was about 6000

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:58 pm

tehlord wrote:Predator

At last count I think the preset count was about 6000

That would certainly qualify.

HydrogenHuman · Post by **HydrogenHuman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:58 pm

I know Sylenth has a lot of very usable and great presets.

I also recently purchased Rob Papen's Blue that has 2000 presets all nicely categorized.

Synthmaster also has a lot of presets that are usable, but I've heard it's hit or miss.

Those are the choices that come to mind, but there are a lot of synths that have good presets. Whether they have a lot of them is a different story.

george · Post by **george** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:59 pm

Discovery / Discovery Pro have big stock libraries. There are plenty of 3rd party banks for them as well.

CullenP · Post by **CullenP** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:00 pm

Omnisphere comes with 8,005 presets, and it'd probably be great for the kind of music that you make, although it's fairly expensive.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:02 pm

Synth1 has over 10.000 presets available, and it certainly counts as a bread-and-butter sounds synthesizer.

EDIT: I see your on a Mac.... Synth1 can do that too

trueparadox · Post by **trueparadox** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:04 pm

Synthmaster has tons of presets, and i think they are very useable. With a little bit of tweakin they fit well.

Also (for free), synth1 has thousands of presets. It sounds a bit dated, imo, but for nothing, it's worth a shot? Download userbanks here at kvr.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:04 pm

HydrogenHuman wrote:I know Sylenth has a lot of very usable and great presets.

I also recently purchased Rob Papen's Blue that has 2000 presets all nicely categorized.

Synthmaster also has a lot of presets that are usable, but I've heard it's hit or miss.

Those are the choices that come to mind, but there are a lot of synths that have good presets. Whether they have a lot of them is a different story.

It doesn't look like I can expect 64bit for my copy of sylenth.
I have noticed synth master before.

I'll put it on the list.

trueparadox · Post by **trueparadox** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:05 pm

Oh, crimsonwarlo beat me with synth1 there by a minute or so. So, yea, you should check it out.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:06 pm

I will definitely not discount synth1

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:09 pm

MUX Vst has many very usable presets!

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:10 pm

George wrote:Discovery / Discovery Pro have big stock libraries. There are plenty of 3rd party banks for them as well.

I used to have discovery a long time ago when I didn't really know what I was doing.
I'll certainly check them out again.

Vintage73 · Post by **Vintage73** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:15 pm

Reaktor and the UL?

Gotta sift through a lot of junk, but at least there's a rating system.

There's one in the Marketplace for sale right now at $120 USD/88 Euros.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:17 pm

mutools wrote:MUX Vst has many very usable presets!

I have gone lost in it before demo'ing mulab.
The price is certainly interesting.

Soft synths with massive preset libraries