The point of this long ramble is this: perhaps we could choose one good synth on the platform and each interested person could write maybe 20 or so sounds of a particular sort ? One person might write arpeggio-style basses, another person writes leads, another weird FX, another pads etc.
At the end all the patches are collected into a single file and posted. We could also filter out the duds from the default bank and give them more indicative names.
Hopefully we would end up with a preset file of several hundred really stunning sounds. (Is there a limit to the number of sounds in one bank ?) Companies such as NI charge a small fortune for good presets, but there's no reason why we can't have top quality sounds to share amongst ourselves at the cost of just a little effort.
To make this work we'd need to choose a synth which has the capability to produce a large range of sounds, then divide up the sound categories among the patch-makers. As a little touch of glory we could have the initials or short nickname of the creator with every patch.
My personal choice would be the Prisma, but I'm sure there are other likely candidates too - anyone have any preferences ?
I'd be happy to co-ordinate the collection of the presets into a single file and also to write quite a few.
Is anyone interested in this ? To work we'd need at LEAST half a dozen people, hopefully many more.
