My new favourite keyboards

[Owen]

15 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

and all with no need at all to learn how to 'tweak' any parameters, still less actually program anything.

 

This is a central theme in all of my technology purchases. 

[Happy Jack]

[BigRedX]

There a plenty of popular songs that use either standard preset sounds or very slight modifications of them. 

 

The above is prime example. The other really well-known one is Van Halen's "Jump" with IIRC is the first preset on the OBXa.

 

There was a pointing the late 80s and 90s where artists were desperate to get any new synth so they could go through all the preset sounds and get the best ones on their recordings before anyone else did.