One of the soft synths I use the most when producing music is the Logic ES2. It is a fantastically versatile synth and has a very nice sound.
One thing that has always bugged me is that when you open up the synth, the default patch is of little use and has crazy amounts going on, all of which is of little use. So what I am going to show you how to do is create a new default/init patch and make it load every time you load an ES2 (If you are really lazy scroll to the bottom of the post and I have saved the setting for you to download ready for use 
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The default setting for the ES2 looks like this -
As you can see there is an insane amount of router settings, so the first thing we will do is set all the sources to ‘LFO1′ (Except the 1st, leave this as Env2) and then set all the targets to ‘Off’(again except the 1st, just set this to b/p). To the right of the 10th router setting, change the Vector Mode to ‘XY’ – this will stop our triangle mixer settings from being messed with.
Next we want to set Volume to 0dB, Sine Level to 0, FX Intensity to 0, Analog to 0, Unison to off and all oscillator cents to 0. We can the switch of Oscillator’s 2 & 3 and set the Triangle mixer to 100% Oscillator 1.
By now the patch will be sounding a lot cleaner and we just have a few more settings to tweak. I like to set the filter to series then move the blend to 50% and open up just the LPF cutoff with no resonance on either filter.
All that is left to do is tidy up the 3 Envelopes. I like to set all to 0 apart from Env 2 Decay to full, Env 3 Sustain to full, and Env’s 2 & 3 Vel to 50%
Here is what it should now look like -
We then just hit Save As… and save the patch as #default. Now every time you load up an ES2 you will have a much better canvas to work with and won’t have so many things to turn off 
As promised here is the file I prepared earlier and a small text file telling you where to place it – Logic ES2 Init Patch (94)
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