CyberGene Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Sorry for the lame title. Reading another thread where Moog One is being mentioned as a synth with a lot of meh presets that needs people to program it from scratch, I remembered about my MODX which was an excellent preset-machine: all presets were wonderful, however to me it was difficult to tweak them in any way due to convoluted concepts and inhumane user interface. So, what keyboard/synth/workstation do you think has the best of both worlds: tons of excellent presets that are ready to play but is also easy and intuitive enough to tweak these presets the way you want without having to obtain a PHD in its sound architecture and UI? 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marino Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 I think Sequential would be near the top of that list for me, with most of their instruments. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Kronos. Out of the box, very meh. 1 Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 I found the sound editing on the Roland Fantom-0 to be very accessible, for a board of its type. I've quickly done more sound tweaking on that than I've done on Yamahas, Korgs, Kurzweils. 1 Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 You might think I'm crazy, and maybe I am, but my vote is the Jupiter X or Xm. Once I connected the USB wireless device that lets you audition, tweek and load the cloud presets it really opened up my Xm. There are a lot of really good patches on the cloud. Quote This post edited for speling. My Sweetwater Gear Exchange Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real MC Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 Andromeda. One of the few that was intuitive enough I could find my way around the deep feature set, seldom referring to the manual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Emm Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 16 hours ago, marino said: I think Sequential would be near the top of that list for me, with most of their instruments. My beloved Korg 01Wfd was bursting with excellent sounds before I ever got to outside patch sets, but I'm with Marino about Sequential. The Prophet-600 was my first poly synth and it was a jaw dropper, especially once I wised up and started running it through a reverb pedal. The presets weren't all that far afield from those of my friend's P-5, so I got a lot of mileage from it. Quote "Well, the 60s were fun, but now I'm payin' for it." ~ Stan Lee, "Ant-Man and the Wasp" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cphollis Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 On 7/30/2022 at 4:21 AM, CyberGene said: Sorry for the lame title. Reading another thread where Moog One is being mentioned as a synth with a lot of meh presets that needs people to program it from scratch, I remembered about my MODX which was an excellent preset-machine: all presets were wonderful, however to me it was difficult to tweak them in any way due to convoluted concepts and inhumane user interface. So, what keyboard/synth/workstation do you think has the best of both worlds: tons of excellent presets that are ready to play but is also easy and intuitive enough to tweak these presets the way you want without having to obtain a PHD in its sound architecture and UI? 😀 When I'm in a mood to explore dozens and dozens of cool synth patches, I start twirling through all the iOS soft synths I own but rarely play. Not great for bread and butter sounds (AP, EP, etc.) but a fun way to explore a lot of sonic territory for not much $$$. Quote Want to make your band better? Check out "A Guide To Starting (Or Improving!) Your Own Local Band" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AROIOS Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 The Big 3 all do (did) a good job with their romplers. Roland's JV/Super-JV_XP/JD/XV/Fantom families, Korg's M1/01/Trinity/Triton families, Yamaha's EX/Motif families... they all offer lots of great patches and don't take a master's degree in sound design to tweak to your desire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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