i was checking some presets on the machines and the names of some of them made me laugh 
…in a good way. thought i would start this so that we could make a list of some of those you find bring some fun/memories/anything in your music making time. not sure there’s a thread already, if so @moderators could maybe merge them
i’ll start with some:
Male Organ
(A user preset on a used Alesis Ion I purchased some years back.)
SD Fuck on the Model:Cycles (sounds nothing like a snare, and we know how problematic the Snare machine is on it…)
Bought my hydrasynth recently. Randomly scrolling found one called “pandemic”. Seemed fitting. A little bummed I didn’t like the patch.
Many of mine are in-jokes, or references to my/my friends’ music.
From the Model:Cycles:
Modex 2003 - my artist name was Modex for a few years in the early 00s, and my music sounded like that
Glooms Tech - Shoutout to @glooms 
Milk Crate - A reference little-scale, who makes similar music to that pattern (named after his site http://milkcrate.com.au/)
Minus One - Orange Dust used to write drum and bass under the name Minus One
BD Gabsly - dot.ay, one of the most innovative chip musicians imo… a reference to him providing beatboxed gabber kicks in a Teledildonix track
HH STTC - A reference to my STTC album, and a kind of connection to Nanoloop
SD Seb - Another reference to little-scale
SY Fenris - Maddest Kings Alive, aka Fenris from Chrism+Fenris
SY Wozzo - DJ Wozzo, aka the other half of my duo Teledildonix
When I think of the M:C your music plays in my head.
“Downsampled Goat Choir” (Waldorf Iridium) 
I don’t use presets but I give mine only people real names.
yes, of course one can and should also list users presets/patches 
Here’s a few:
Bitch Shifter
Everglades Traffic Control
Suboptimal Opera
Maynard Shroom Trip
Underwater Espionage
Discrete Transistor Monks
…those are just from FieldScaper
I try to name whatever patch or preset I make something that might retrigger the vibe I was going for when first created, and possibly to inspire a song title later.
that’s a nice idea, does it usually work?
Yes.
i have FMinism1, FMinism2, etc.
I’m intrigued what kind of vibe this could describe - something like this?
3L3C7R0 BA$$
3L3C7R0 BA$$ 69
Electro bass 1
Electro bass 7
Blips and Chits
Wonky Space Pad
Wavey Ravey Davey
The only presets I tend to use are called INIT.
Custom patch names include:
AlienFactor
CreepBass
ChordArp0
Area54Sub
OldJuno03
StabbyMcStab
SpaceTrvl
WarpdPad
ParcadeBass
BattleDrums
Going forward I think I’ll go with the approach @chapelierfou seems to be suggesting.
SteveBrown (bass)
Miriam (strings)
OfficeWorker (drone)
etc…
I’ve only ever named a preset with something other than boring numbers or descriptions like “saw bass 12” once, and that was my first attempt at a hoover sound, which I christened Rave Benson Phillips.
No-one who isn’t British will get the reference and I can’t be arsed to explain it, so bollocks.
Sure enough, I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
some of mine
sub-niggurath
diabolus ex musica
throb’n’gristle
woodpeckers from hell
maj3rd reich / min3rd reich
dbl saw massacre
manzarek on acid
rave is your grave
phuck the police
