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That narrows down the options quite a bit and you've got a number of the ones in there that I would've otherwise recommended. I might need to defer to some of the other guys like @Fleer who might have some good ideas on them! If I had to though, I'm not as much of a fan of strum, so I'd look for more packs for the other two. I don't own this one yet, but I did like a couple of the sounds from a walkthrough https://www.applied-acoustics.com/space-walk/ For UA maybe https://www.applied-acoustics.com/plastic-pop/ This doesn't sound like it fits those genres as closely, but I did come close to grabbing this today so it might worth a look and there is a good preset walkthrough vid: https://www.applied-acoustics.com/low-end-theory-2/ You could also download the latest Swatches and see if it includes any for those instruments that you like to get an idea as well. https://www.applied-acoustics.com/swatches/

That was exactly my experience with turning stuff off as well. It is still classed as beta though, so it's possible for final release they may have some better presets. Definitely a keeper regardless though and I'm happy to have it.

I was pretty impressed too Brian. Although I mostly didn't like the majority of the presets, but the default one sounded nice and were a better place to start from for me.

Glad it helped! Do you have any of the full instruments, or just the session versions? If you have any of the full ones, then I'd get all the ones you like for that first. If not and you're using the free player, or have all the sessions, then there's more to choose from. If you let us know what instrument you have, then I'm sure you'll end up with recommendations from a few of us on here.