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Elektor Formant, lead

Sexy Boy · Air / Single (1998)

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Contest: Elektor Formant played lead on Sexy Boy by Air (1998)

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Settings

osc
1 saw -1, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none, noise 0.02
filter
BP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
1100 Hz
resonance
0.5, drive 0.1
envelope
A 10 ms D 150 ms S 0.6 R 200 ms; vowel-like sweep, formant filter tracking the melodic phrase like a talking voice; filter env amount 0.4
modulation
lfo sine 0.6 Hz to cutoff, glide 60 ms, mono
effects
light chorus, plate reverb, none
notes
A narrow bandpass sweep gives this lead its distinctive 'talking' quality, the filter tracking the melody with a vowel-like formant movement over a single saw oscillator, a hallmark of Air's analog-synth-heavy Moon Safari sound.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem