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.
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On Feb 4, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Tony Cappellini
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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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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.
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!
