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Yamaha DX7, lead

The Swing of Things · a-ha / Single (1987)

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played lead on The Swing of Things by a-ha (1987)

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Settings

osc
FM lead (DX7-style), 2-operator bell/brass hybrid, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none
filter
gentle LP shaping post-FM
cutoff
4000 Hz
resonance
0.1, drive 0.05
envelope
A 5 ms D 300 ms S 0.5 R 200 ms; mostly static, bright FM timbre with minimal filter movement; filter env amount 0.1
modulation
lfo sine 5 Hz to pitch
effects
stereo chorus, short digital delay on the hook phrase, none
notes
The bright, faintly metallic hook line reads as a DX7 FM lead patch, chorused for width with a short delay doubling the melodic answer phrases between vocal lines.

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  • Seedsystem