i can’t take credit for spotting these sounds, but the ones i’ve managed to take a listen to sound spot on
Laidback Luke - Break the House Down. Not the main lead but another synth. V-Station >> Noughty Lead
Axwell - I found you remode - the main bass and synth riff. FM7 > Ghooole
Dirty South - Let it go (Axwell remix). NI Massive >> SQ Power Stab
Axwell ID w/ “put your hands up in the air”. Absynth >> candrum
HardFi (Axwell remix). Korg Monopoly >> Kord Rain
Axwell & Dirty South - Open Your Heart. NI Massive >> Midnight Children
Arno Cost & Norman Dorey - Apocalypse. Minimoog V >> CD_Scary_SeQ
Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso - Partouze. Cakewalk Rapture : 06-Keys >> Classic Chicago Stack 1
Adele - Hometown Glory (Axwell Remode). Cakewalk Rapture : 06-Keys >> Classic Chicago Stack 4 is from
Steve Angello & Laidback Luke - Be. Korg M1 >> House Organ Split
Chemical Brothers - Salmon Dance. NI Massive >> Big Deeper
SHM & LBL - Get Dumb. ABSYNTH preset >> Birdie Scratch
Axwell - Submariner. Fx Sound. ABSYNTH preset >> Avionics
Julien Jabre - Swimming Places (Seb Ingrosso Remix). z3ta+ preset : B >> chicago 01
No love lost (DONS & DBN Remix). z3ta+ preset : B >> chicago 02
Deadmau5 chord sound. Z3ta : C >> Chords of life
Deadmau5 - Reward Is Cheese. NI Massive >> TresManos
Tristan Garner - Caribe. NI Massive >> butterfly
Pryda - Loaded. Korg legacy collection : legacycell >> influx strings
Pryda - Shadows. Korg Legacy Collection : legacycell >> 006eep Searchin
Don & Palm - Apollo. FM8 >> Smooth stab
Deadmau5 - Slip. z3ta : E bank >> the other same arp
Nelly Furtardo - Promiscuous (Axwell Remix). Pro 53 >> Analog SQ1
TV Rock - Been A Long Time (Laidback Luke Remix). Pro 53 >> Analog SQ1
SHM & LBL - Leave the World Behind. FM8 >> Short Seq
Nari & Milani - Gnuk!. FM8 >> Squarelead
David Guetta - Love Takes Over (Laidback Luke Mix). Massive >> D-Droid
John Dahlback - World Of Love. Sylenth1 : 1st bank : KEY : Chicago and KEY >> Pizzicato
Funkagenda and Mark Knight - Man with the Red Face. FM8 >> Short seq
Axwell WMC ID - YouTube . NI Massive - Fudgecake
Pryda - Pjanoo. String preset Korg M1 : Card 9 >> Brass-Ens(emble) & piano preset Korg M1 : Card 1 >> Piano 8
Axwell - I Found U. one of the RefX NEXUS patches for the piano sound
Novy & Bahil - Fluxkompensator. Logic 8 Studio >> Apple Loops >> Modern Rock Guitar 22
Awell & Dirty South - Open your heart. NI Absynth >> Square Pad With Flange &
Vember Audio Surge >> Pluck (fast) >> Sinus Verby Pops
Axwell - Feel the vibe (Eric Prydz mix) >> Patch 33 in Korg Legacy
Kanye West - Harder Better Faster Stronger. Logic preset >> Fifth Moon
Seamus Haji. Z3ta >> Microwave Bass
Soul Central - In-Ten-City. Club-beat 006 loop
Rhianna - Umbrella. Vintage Funk preset loop from Garageband
deadmau5 - Ghost n Stuff. Sytrus >> 4 drawbars
I think this goes to show, that you always dont have to be a synthesis expert to make amazing music. However, I feel that it is pertinent for all producers to learn how to program a synth.
I concur. Nothing wrong with a bit of present now and again, but I do take much more pride when I know the sounds are all my own.
In relation to the OP, is it possible that, at least some of those, the presets are copies of the sounds used, rather than the other way round.
Sylenth for example has loads of well known leads amongst it’s presets, and I am guessing not all the artists were using Sylenth.
Great list for deconstructing some big tracks though
sure thing, its very possible that the presets were created to copy the artist. but its still a good source to find a sound
I don’t think i noticed any in there, but if you look at the pre-sets in Sylenth they’re are some that are closely named to tracks that are out and have the same sound.
I think though that it’s possible with those particular ones in Sylenth are - like jon said - made to replicate the track.
pretty impressive !! thats alot of presets used lol . but what i think is that every synth have a different engine that sometimes they might come up closer to one of the presets that is used in another synths. i always tought is being able to program your own synths will help you to work faster + you might be able to create a new kind of sound that we never heard before. wich pretty much makes you unique than someone using Presets . but who cares nowadays . 85% of people uses Presets lol
everyone uses presets at some point(at the very least as a starting point)internet forums are just usually filled with insecure liars.
Who cares anyways if you use a preset, in the end of the day it’s no different from sampling something. If it sounds good… use it.
I use a preset by Roland on the 303 called acid! Hell yeah I’m a preset whore…
It’s all about being creative with whatever you use whether it’s £100 or £100,000 worth of studio equipment
Good post, lots of time and listening went into it
its not uncommon for big producer to by hardware synths just for the presets, not every producer will be a good synth programmer much in the same way that not every producer will be good at beat and if you really listen you can hear some of the vengeance loops in many of the top tracks. i know some guys have admitted in interviews that a track was made after flicking through synth presets stabbing away at the keyboard for inspiration.