Reply To: 🆓📢 Search Vast FREE Synth Preset Resources [BETA]

[Peter DeLegge]

On Brian said

Very cool.  Just learning about the “PresetShare” site was worth the visit.  I don’t have the patience or brain capacity to build patches from scratch, and sifting through hundreds of presets is a buzz-kill.  Best to find something “close” and tweakable using a search like this.

Thanks for the feedback, Brian.

I love PresetShare, the site with the largest quantity of free presets, shared freely by community members. I go there regularly and download synth presets. I’ve been recommending it for years.

Like the other LinkedMusicians PowerSEARCH engines we’re rolling out this week, there are a lot of sites — or rather sections of sites — that are covered by these search engines. Much like how the LinkedMusicians best of lists curate the best free sample libraries, free soft synths, and free effects, the idea here is to focus these search engines purely on vetted sources, not everything. So, you’re only searching carefully vetted, very relevant content, not everything on the web. Basically, the idea is to get people to the best and most relevant content resources very quickly.

Others are in the works. One I’m presently putting a lot of effort into is the Mixing & Mastering Problem Solver PowerSEARCH. The idea for that one is a little different. You enter in the mixing or mastering problem you’re trying to solve and the search engine goes through an index of tens of thousands of pages of expert content to help you solve the problem.

And FTR, there’s no money in doing these projects. This is my passion project. The mentality of every online community is to create a walled garden — you’re trying to keep visitors at your site. These projects go against that idea. Why? Because the main mission of this passion project called LinkedMusician is to deliver real value to our community. Can other communities copy what we’re doing? Sure. But I doubt they will, because they’re not going to make money off of it.

Now the big challenge is making our community aware of these tools. They’re extremely useful, but people need to be aware of them, so I really am relying on our community to spread the word — tell others at the various sites you go to, via email, chat, in person, etc.

LinkedMusicians Founder. Your friend who keeps the beat.

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