Notes on presets

General notes: sometimes it's not the basic sound that's interesting as much as how the controllers are setup: it's usually worth trying at least the "variation" button and the mod wheel.

Electric Pianos
People divide electric pianos into "reeds" (Wurlitzer), "tines" (Fender Rhodes), and "strings" (?), though I'm pretty lost on the distinction between reeds and tines.

The Suitcase and the Dyno My Piano were both Rhodes variants (the former an official model, the latter an aftermarket modification).

Programs 43-52 are all based on the same "tines" samples.

"These Eyes" is from "The Guess Who" song of the same name.

"Misty Mountain" and "No Quarter Pnt" are from the Led Zeppelin songs.

Clavs
More about the clavinet

In most cases, for clavs without "wah" in the name, you can still turn on wah with the variation button and it will be controlled by the second cc pedal.

Clavs with "wah" in the name generally allow it to be controlled by either cc2 or mod wheel, though "100 Clav WAH" only has mod wheel hooked up for some reason.

Clav AC vs BC: choose between two pickup locations (A closer to hammer, B closer to bridge); see https://chicagoelectricpiano.com/clavinet/clavinet-controls-and-settings/

88 TrampledUnder D6: meant to match the clavinet sound on Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Under Foot". Variation button claims to change pickup location but makes no difference that I can hear.

I wonder what "SMS" and "PCell" mean?

"Hiya Clav": Clav imitating one of the clav sounds from Stevie Wonder's "Higher Gound".

Organ
119-203 are mainly KB3 programs with a few sample-based programs thrown in. 204-255 are a bunch of pipe organs. There are a few FM-based organs at the end.

Synth
This is a huge category, including pads, leads, basses, etc.

Guitar/Bass
Basses: Note that most of the bass presets are transposed down an octave. In standard tuning the lowest note on a 4-string bass (guitar or double-bass) is E1 (41.20Hz), which is also the lowest E on an 88-key piano. With the PC4 bass patches the lowest E usually plays an E0, which is almost impossibly low.

Variation button usually adds either a ride cymbal or distortion. The distortion by default is turned all the way up; if you want a little less you can edit the "drive" parameter, which isn't matched to any physical controls by default.

Some of the basses switch to a slap sample at high velocity.

Multis
Presets 1-14 are piano/bass splits. Note the bass patches are transposed down an octave (see note on bass presets above), so you'll probably either want to either keep your left hand out of the bottom octave, or edit those splits to transpose that zone up an octave.

Presets 15-20 are monophonic synth lead/pad splits and 21-26 are polyphonic lead synth/pad splits.

Presets 33-36 are organ/bass splits; as with the piano/bass splits the bass is an octave down.

Presets 39-50 are various layering examples. In number 49, I assume the name "Tron" is short for "mellotron", as those sound like mellotron examples.