If you haven't heard of PresetShare, you're missing out on one of the best free resources in music production right now. PresetShare is a platform where producers and sound designers upload and share presets for free. No paywalls, no subscriptions, just a community of producers sharing sounds with each other. Think of it like a social media platform but specifically built for music producers who want to share their work and connect with other artists.
I joined PresetShare in April 2023 and started uploading my own presets in April 2024. Since then I've uploaded 21 Vital presets, and I want to be upfront about that number: I gatekeep most of my good ones. The 21 that are up are the ones I felt comfortable sharing publicly. Even so, those 21 presets have pulled in 22,500 downloads, 2,200 likes, and 2,700 followers. From 21 presets. If that doesn't tell you something about how active this community is, I don't know what will.
I make all my presets with Vital, which is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer that is completely free. I love freeware. Always have. There's something about a tool that's genuinely free and genuinely good that just feels right. Vital is both of those things, and the preset community built around it on PresetShare is one of the most active on the whole platform. If you're a producer and you're not already using Vital and sharing presets on PresetShare, you are genuinely leaving connections, followers, and opportunities on the table.
Because here's the thing about PresetShare that most people don't talk about. Yes it's a preset sharing platform. But it functions like a discovery tool for producers. People find your presets, they like your sound, they follow you, they reach out. It becomes a pipeline for real connections with real artists. I have gotten more genuine outreach from PresetShare than from most social media platforms combined. The people on there are actually making music, actually looking for collaborators, and actually paying attention to who's uploading what.
That's rare. Especially right now when most platforms are just noise.
The two artists I'm about to talk about are both people I connected with directly or indirectly through PresetShare. Dante found me on the platform specifically and reached out. That one conversation turned into a real working relationship. That's the kind of thing PresetShare makes possible, and it's why I keep coming back to upload even when I could easily just keep everything to myself.
Dante
Funny thing is, he found me first. Usually it goes the other way but I'm not complaining. He sent me his tracks and I was immediately impressed. His sound is the kind of thing you would hear on Korean radio. Clean, polished, built for the mainstream. And the thing is, that's exactly what he's going for. He's not shy about it either. The guy wants to be huge and honestly the music backs it up.
That kind of ambition is refreshing. A lot of people in the underground scene act like wanting mainstream success is a bad thing. Dante doesn't care about any of that. He knows what he wants, he's working toward it, and his music is already there. Go follow him now before he blows up and you have to pretend you knew him all along.
Beomical
Beomical helped me on Stars and I genuinely learned a lot from that session, specifically around low-end frequencies, which is something I had been wanting to get better at. He's the kind of collaborator who just makes you better without making a big deal out of it. His own stuff is heavy EDM with a lot of anime influence, so sonically we're on opposite ends of the spectrum.
But that's the thing about working with people outside your lane. You always pick up something you wouldn't have otherwise. His ear for low-end is seriously impressive and if you're into that big, cinematic EDM sound with anime energy, his SoundCloud is worth a listen. And go check out Stars while you're at it.
Both of them are from Korea, which still trips me out a little. PresetShare connected a Filipino bedroom producer with two Korean artists and now we're all making stuff together. That's the kind of thing that doesn't happen without a platform that actually works. So again, go check out PresetShare. You might find your next collab there too.
— cav