Giving the presets a go? Good idea! They not only demonstrate what the OB-6 is capable of, but make an excellent starting point for developing your own timbres.
Tips:
• Many (most) of the presets, have sequences set up. Really useful for getting a feel for what the programmer had in mind. Hit the [PLAY] button when going through them,
• Mark up notes for your favorites. Don’t just write down the program numbers.. but capture notes on what type of preset it is (for example: SynBrass, Strings, PolySyn, Percussion, Efx, BrassTemplate, BassTemplate…) . I will also write down settings I changed while sampling… that I liked. For example – “Turn off UNISON”, Kick up Filter Amount, Add LFO Sweep, re-do the Sequence, etc
• Adjunct to the last tip.. If you make changes to the program that you like – go ahead and write/save them. In this case – you will already be on the Bank, Tens and Program… just hit the [WRITE] button and the program number you are on. The original is safely tucked in the upper banks.. Save your changes
• When I am done marking / writing notes about favorites – it provides:
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- A list of programs that I will want to use as templates for future patches
o A list of programs that I will build into set lists for later use
o Catagorized list of timbres I found useful. I’ll use this to know what types of timbres I need to build up / add later
Final tip on presets — and I am borrowing this with pride from this post:
http://forum.davesmithinstruments.com/index.php/topic,142.msg1115.html#msg1115 where user, Fuseball recommends using the DEMO version of the SoundTower editor. That thread is discussing the P-6 … but the suggestion works the same for the OB-6. That is.. even with the DEMO version of the SoundTower for the OB, it will reflect the settings of the OB-6 as you select patches. You can see the settings for the selected program. This is a great way to view the settings for the patches you like. Link:
http://www.soundtower.com/ob6/index.html and click on the download menu item (top of screen).
I am still going through the presets… and it’s been nearly a week. I’m finding it’s easy to get distracted, and go back to the few dozen I’ve found I want to explore further or use. Everyone is looking for different things from their OB-6. Me? I wanted to add additional analog girth to my JD-XA and FA-06. I have that in spades. There are a few of the included patches that are very close to what I had created on my JD-XA. Tonight I lost an hour… jamming with a preset that I changed pretty radically – which compliments a layered JD-XA patch (very close timbre) I had created, months ago. The ‘XA patch has layered digital drum parts which I tempo sync’d with the OBs clock… and it is bliss playing these together. The OB version of this patch has that OB-fizz, that just can't be made or matched. Cool beans. I lost an hour Sunday ( CA daylights savings time), and an hour tonight ( JDoo OB Preset time).
Anyway -- Mark your preset favorites. Write down keepers, ones you want to use as starters/templates, or have settings you want to explore later. …and don’t forget to hit the Sequencer [PLAY] button while you are trying em out. Oh - and use the free version of the SoundTower editor to check the settings for the programs you like.
Crap – I could have said this in a couple of sentences.. Carry on - -
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