08/02/2021
HEYHEY! New video out today, talking about this sort of stuff:
So as many of you guys and girls I own way too many synths and instruments which in and of themselves have lots of presets to sort through. I love presets as a creative starting point, but that's not the discussion I want to have today.
Today I want to talk about how to ORGANIZE these presets in a way that make sense.
And of course, different companies use different systems to sort your presets. I'm having a look at u-he's favorite system (8 different colors, one can be assigned per preset) and Spectrasonics' Omnisphere 5-star-ranking system. This also applies to Cubase's Mediabay and the same system can be applied to that as well.
I've never understood the point of a 5-star ranking system if one is using it in the traditional "0-star is bad" and "5-star is good", simply because I wouldn't want to use something that it "middle-of-the-road", or 3 stars, in a song I'm producing. For me it makes no sense!
So instead I treat the 5 stars just like I treat the u-he system, and that means all possibilities, 0 through 5 stars, all have meaning and you're not left with a vacuum where 1 star means trash and 5 stars means perfection and everything in between never gets used.
So here's MY system. In the video I explain where I'm coming from and why this works for me and my workflow, yours could and probably should be a little different. OR if you want to use the exact same thing, I won't stop you of course.
U-he favorites sorting:
Black = Bass
Brown = Leads
Organge = Arps
Red = Angry/Agressive
Purple = Tense/Spy/Horror
Dark Blue = Sad/Drama
Light Blue = Light/Shimmery
Green = Happy
My five-star rating sorting:
0 = Unsorted/Trash
1 = Bass
2 = Arp/Sequenced
3 = Drums
4 = Pads
5 = Leads
Here's a link to the video where I unpack this a little bit more and show some examples!
Thanks for reading! :D
