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Hi

What about presets, is it concidered lame to use them? Do most 
producers (semiprofessionals included) out there use custom-made 
sounds only?

cheers / J

At 15:33 11-6-2002, you wrote:
>What about presets, is it concidered lame to use them? Do most
>producers (semiprofessionals included) out there use custom-made
>sounds only?
Of course not.
That's the artistic freedom you have. If you found out that you made a 
fantastic bassline or lead with one of the factory-presets it's nothing to 
be shamed about.
It's something what's done for years .

A good example of 'over-used' presets are the sounds of the TB-303 or the 
TR-909 or the 'What the...' preset of the Roland Alpha Juno-2.
And what to think of the good old piano sound?

But creating new sounds can be fun too. I get my ideas when tweaking the 
knobs of my synths.

R.

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I used to be very anti-preset, but I'm all for not letting spending 
hours engineering patches interfere with writing material. If a sound 
works for you, then use it. I'm willing to bet that a lot of us use 
some sounds for our songs that are a few tweaks away from some 
presets, anyway. 

Cheers, 

Philip
www.daseinonline.com 

--- In AN1x-list@y..., Roland van Oorschot <rolando@w...> wrote:
> At 15:33 11-6-2002, you wrote:
> >What about presets, is it concidered lame to use them? Do most
> >producers (semiprofessionals included) out there use custom-made
> >sounds only?
> Of course not.
> That's the artistic freedom you have. If you found out that you 
made a 
> fantastic bassline or lead with one of the factory-presets it's 
nothing to 
> be shamed about.
> It's something what's done for years .
> 
> A good example of 'over-used' presets are the sounds of the TB-303 
or the 
> TR-909 or the 'What the...' preset of the Roland Alpha Juno-2.
> And what to think of the good old piano sound?
> 
> But creating new sounds can be fun too. I get my ideas when 
tweaking the 

> knobs of my synths.
> 
> R.
> 
> ---
> f:un[x]iun
> http://www.funxiun.com
> 
> Electro, Techno and more ...
> ---

> A good example of 'over-used' presets are the sounds of the TB-303 
or the 
> TR-909 or the 'What the...' preset of the Roland Alpha Juno-2.

I was actually trying out a Juno-2 when i came across a sound i 
recognized instantly; one of the bass sounds (preset) is the same as 
in the beginning bass lick of a (really dull) disco tune 
called "Dolce vita" or something like that. I don't know if its a 
well known tune, but it was kind of interesting to play the exact 
same bassline. I also heard the lick from Europes "The final 
countdown" is a brass preset.  :)

Have a nice day / J