When synth manufacturers are curating the factory banks, they reach out to various hipster sound designers and synthfluencers to create patches that highlight the unique aspects of the instrument. I get it, I think it’s great, but I’d like to make a suggestion: Can every keyboard come with a supermarket keyboard bank full of usable patches?
You know those cheap keyboards that are on display at Wal-Mart, Target, Costco that you can mess with while your wife is shopping for ingredients for her sweet potato pie or whatever. You’re gonna get the general midi stuff like the pianos, organs, string pads, trumpets, sax, drum kit, etc. Just some usable patches just to play regular songs.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like the weird stuff and it gives me creative ideas, but sometimes I’d like to bang on the keys with a piano sound or synth patch that doesn’t morph into messages from the beyond coming in through the microwave background white noise and then dies off sounding like a cross between a sick puppy and a french police siren
I feel like a lot of my synths come with very usable bread and butter type sounds, at the least ones I have used. Which synths in particular do you feel are the biggest offenders?
No. Because we don’t have Walmart or Costco here. We have target, it’s pretty much clothes, stationery and household goods. And finally, I don’t have a wife.
As for presets. Personally I delete them all and make my own.
