Yeah, this is the greatest thing about the ZOOM.
However, don’t COMPLETELY IGNORE the patches (as @howard said in the last post, they are not a complete waste)
What I did was look at ones that sounded half way decent in STOMP or EDIT mode.
Then I started tweaking settings on each pedal in that chain, to see which way to set them that is more to my liking, and which settings are not so much to my liking.
This also works with pedals within the chain, as they feed off each other, so when you tweak one, you affect the others, so it helps to understand how to tweak settings in each pedal in the chain.
PLUS
you can re-arrange the pedals, because, as you know, when you change the order, you change the result, sometimes making it better to your ear, and other times killing the whole thing.
Then
when you play around with the already created patches (that you know sounded good at one point, or at least sounded they way somebody created them, weather you like it or not,), and learn from them, you can start with a fresh blank patch and create one from scratch, and keep doing this until you get the idea of how to build chains.
THEN, after you go broke spending virtual MIND dollars, playing endlessly with the damn ZOOM machine, you can save yourself a bunch of real cash, by focusing on pedals you know you like in your chain, and not have to buy others to find out you don’t like them, or won’t use them enuf to justify buying one.
And then, if you want, you can keep that Zoom pedal around on your board, use it as a TUNER, and you can create a patch with a single effect pedal, and you can HAVE that one pedal that you didn’t really want to spend for, but you want to have it around just in case you decide to add it in the mix at some point.
Its really just showing how worthwhile and valuable these boxes for such a decent price. I figure it paid for istelf about 50 times over, and then I sold mine for $55, so in the end, it was only $15.
And, I did keep it around on my pedalboard for single pedals until I got a real pedal of that type, and I still have another zoom pedal and unit.