Re: Sound Design vs. Presets

[Philip Conway <Philip.Conway@bristol.ac.uk>]

It really depends...

I've no problem calling up a simple synth bass preset, for example, and 
tweaking it to taste.  But then there are other synth presets that are 
almost like fully formed tracks in and of themselves.  I mean, you could 
take a lot of Absynth presets, play with the control parameters and there's 
your song.  Now that IS cheating!

The majority of factory presets that come with software sound horrible 
anyway.  They're meant to show off all the crazy things it can do rather 
than produce useable sounds.  This makes them useful for educating yourself 
about the software's capabilities but I don't feel tempted to use a great 
many of them, personally.


Philip.


--On 29 January 2012 12:47 -0800 kay'lon rushing <k3zz21@gmail.com> wrote:

> For those who use software instruments, what do you prefer, making your
> own sounds from scratch or using presets? I tend to make them from
> scratch because I have this unusual ego that tells me using presets is
> cheating haha.