Xpantastic!

I think synth makers have taken preset design a lot more seriously in recent years (the virus patches are amazing) They understand the importance of how they help sell the synth. The great programmers of the classic synths came up in a different time, before the internet, before the ease of file sharing so Im sure the best patches are sitting buried in private studios all over the world.


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> On 5 Feb 2019, at 7:56 am, Omar Torres holografique@... [xpantastic] <xpantastic@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Definitely NOT always the case. A few I can think of off the top of my head that had (some, not all) great patches:
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> Korg Wavestation AD/SR
> Korg M1
> Korg Prophecy / Z1
> Roland JD-990
> Roland D-50
> Roland D-70
> Roland XV-5080
> Roland V-Synth
> Kurzweil K2x00
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> Mind you, my list is based on a love for ethereal/pad/soundscape type patches. So YMMV...
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> And god knows the countless software synths that have had some incredible preset design work over the past decade or so.
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> -o
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>> On Feb 4, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Tony Cappellini cappy2112@... [xpantastic] <xpantastic@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> >>  The Xpander/M-12 factory patches have to be some of the worst ever and are pretty embarrassing given the power of the synths.
>> Isn't that always the case? Are there any synths that you've owned that have very good factory patches?
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>>> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:35 PM mattvrazo@... [xpantastic] <xpantastic@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>> Agreed. The Xpander/M-12 factory patches have to be some of the worst ever and are pretty embarrassing given the power of the synths.
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>>> There really isn't much out there in terms of downloadable patches that I've seen, but I recently came across a site with five different custom banks and I loaded them all. Among those five hundred sounds or so, there were really only 3 or 4 really interesting patches that warranted saving. I guess the bottom line is that if you want decent patches for these machines, you have to program your own!
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