Xpantastic!

Definitely NOT always the case. A few I can think of off the top of my head that had (some, not all) great patches:

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

Mind you, my list is based on a love for ethereal/pad/soundscape type patches. So YMMV...

And god knows the countless software synths that have had some incredible preset design work over the past decade or so.

-o


> On Feb 4, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Tony Cappellini cappy2112@gmail.com [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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