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Clavia Nord Lead, pad

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Contest: Clavia Nord Lead played pad on Summer Moved On by a-ha (2000)

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Settings

osc
3 saw stacked, wide detune, unison 5, detune 35 cents, sub none, noise 0.05
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2600 Hz
resonance
0.1
envelope
A 3500 ms D 2000 ms S 0.8 R 4000 ms; a slow multi-bar swell opening the filter gradually across the entire instrumental intro before the beat and vocal enter; filter env amount 0.5
modulation
lfo sine 0.15 Hz to cutoff
effects
long lush reverb, a hall/plate blend, stereo chorus for width, subtle tape-style delay, none
notes
A wide detuned saw stack with a very slow attack and filter swell builds the famous ambient wash that carries the song's minute-plus intro before the beat lands. A slow cutoff LFO keeps the pad breathing rather than static, and a heavy reverb/chorus blend pushes it back into an atmospheric space, a clear step away from a-ha's earlier guitar-pop arrangements.

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  • Seedsystem