in my experience on many forums most people believe their favorite artists must be using hardware to achieve the sound they get when in fact its really just that they know how to get a great mix,unfortunately all sonics tuts really dont cover mixing properly(not yet at least,i have a feeling their probably waiting to cover gain staging and advanced techniques in future tuts).anyway here is a list of various presets from various softsynths,the artists that used them and the songs they used them on.it started out on a dev forum i belong to,ended up on kvr and the axwell forum so you may have seen most of these already.
NI Massive - Midnight Children (axwell open your heart
FM8 - Ghhuuuullh (I found U (remode)
Korg MonoPoly - kord rain (HardFi remix)
Absynth - candrum (axwell)
Massive - sq power stab (let it go axwell)
Minimoog V - CD_Scary_SeQ (Arno Cost & Norman Dorey - Apocalypse)
Cakewalk Rapture 06-Keys >> Classic Chicago Stack 1 is from “Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso - Partouze”
Cakewalk Rapture 06-Keys >> Classic Chicago Stack 4 is from "Adele - Hometown Glory (Axwell Remode)
Korg M1 - house organ split (Laidback Luke - be)
massive - Big Deeper (chemical brothers salmon dance)
Predator - lOAD BANK> HIP HOP RNB 01 LOAD PRESET> SFX. CLUB SOUAREFALL 1 (Angello (Mescal Kid) - Magic )
ABSYNTH preset > Birdie Scratch (Get Dumb)
ABSYNTH preset > Avionics (FX sound in Submariner)
z2ta+ preset > B > chicago 01 (Julien Jabre - Swimming Places (Seb Ingrosso Remix)
z2ta+ preset > B > chicago 02 (No love lost (DONS & DBN Remix)
Z3ta > C > Chords of life (deadmau5) definitely wrong but can be used for simialr effect
Massive - TresManos (Deadmau5 - Reward Is Cheese)
Massive - Butterfly Stance (Tristan Garner - Caribe (Original Extended Mix)
Massive - Midnight Train (Open your heart)
korg legacy collection → influx strings ->pryda - loaded
Korg Legacy Collection >> legacycell >> 006:Deep Searchin (Pryda - Shadows (E3 note)
FM8 Smooth stab (Don & Palm - Apollo)
cakewalk rapture - bass - minishot bass
Pro 53 >> Analog SQ1 and play some minor chords (Axwell’s Remix of Promiscuos and Laidback Luke Remix of Been A Long Time)
FM8 >> Short Seq (it seems the bass and lead of Leave The World Behind)
FM8 >> Squarelead (Gnuk!)
Massive >> D-Droid (Laidback Luke Remix of Love Takes Over)
Sylenth1 >> 1st bank >> KEY: Chicago and KEY: Pizzicato (John Dahlback - World Of Love)
Massive - Fudgecake
NI Absynth >> “Square Pad With Flange” Awell & Dirty South - Open your heart
Vember Audio Surge >> Pluck (fast) >> “Sinus Verby Pops” Open your heart
Nexus XP Dance Vol.1 -Preset: Go Attack (Angello & Ingrosso - 555)
V-Station >> Noughty Lead (Laidback Luke - Break the House Down)
z3ta : E bank >> the other same arp (Deadmau5 - Slip.) definitely wrong but a close enough preset if you want that sound.
Pro 53 >> Analog SQ1 (TV Rock - Been A Long Time (Laidback Luke Remix))
FM8 >> Squarelead (Nari & Milani - Gnuk!)
Korg M1 : Card 9 >> Brass-Ens(emble) & piano preset Korg M1 : Card 1 >> Piano 8 (Pryda - Pjanoo.)
Korg Legacy - patch 33 (Feel the vibe (Eric Prydz mix)
Z3ta >> Microwave Bass (Seamus Haji)
Nexus → Dance Leads → Cheap Dancelead (axwell sweet disposition remix )
Predator - Bank: Introduction. Preset: Chord: Lets Go (Nari & Milani - ATC)
theres quite a few more i came across in some of the nexus2 expansions.ill go back and locate them if this thread generates any sort of interest
ive also just realized ive posted the smaller older list.ill hunt the larger one down on my harddrive later on and edit my initial post.
i posted this list a while back
[quote]jon_fisher (13/08/2010)[hr]i posted this list a while back[/quote]
sorry not this list but something very similar
Reitterating my belief (again ;)) that there is nothing wrong with using a preset of it serves your musical purpose.
what was it you or someone else posted in another thread Howie
‘that Beethoven was all about the piano preset’
exactly!
Just make good music, you don’t have to create completely unique individual sounds for every track or necessarily for any. Get a good groove, feel the energy, arrange it well. Make people happy! Or sad, if that’s what you’re going for.
yeah. i agree. its the same discussion that if you use ableton, you arent a good DJ. Personally, I think thats bull. You have to know how to work a crowd.
Just someone gives you all the tools to make a hit track, doesnt mean that they can do it.
“I dont care how you get here, just get here if you can”
If i broke the 100m sprint world record again tomorrow no one would be asking weather i was wearing lycra or polyester… they would just be like… that dude is f***ing fast.
just make ****hot tunes if you sampled half the thing and just added a kick so be it. did it destroy the dancfloor…Oh yes!! job done.
[quote]phil johnston (15/08/2010)[hr]“I dont care how you get here, just get here if you can”
If i broke the 100m sprint world record again tomorrow no one would be asking weather i was wearing lycra or polyester… they would just be like… that dude is f***ing fast.
just make ****hot tunes if you sampled half the thing and just added a kick so be it. did it destroy the dancfloor…Oh yes!! job done.[/quote]
or what roids you are using
I totally agree but I dunno if this makes me a huge computer music geek but when I hear a sound and reckognise a preset I love it lol. Tbh tho I think what alot of the top producers get presets and tweak them, they also layer ALOT!
Yup I had an awesome audiogeek moment when I heard When I Grow Up by Fever Ray and went “hey that’s a Wavestation preset!”. That forever negated my shame when using a preset
[quote]radiodestructo (17/08/2010)[hr]Yup I had an awesome audiogeek moment when I heard When I Grow Up by Fever Ray and went “hey that’s a Wavestation preset!”. That forever negated my shame when using a preset[/quote]
by '98 wavestation preset abuse was way out of control,to the point it started to really detract from the appeal of the synth,that plus the fact that its hard to program and sort of a pain to situate in a mix.the trick with it is running it through another synth with a great filter.