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Yamaha DX7 S, keys

TANGO NOIR · Akina Nakamori / Single (1987)

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 S played keys on TANGO NOIR by Akina Nakamori (1987)

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Settings

osc
DX7 FM stab + Prophet-5 saw unison, unison 3, detune 15 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
3800 Hz
resonance
0.3, drive 0.15
envelope
A 2 ms D 100 ms S 0 R 150 ms; hard snap on each hit to punctuate the tango-inflected rhythm figure; filter env amount 0.55
effects
gated plate reverb, none
notes
The tango-flavoured rhythm hits are a bright DX7/Prophet-5 stab combination, arranger Nakamura keeping the low register clear (per his own comment about avoiding buried low notes) so the stabs cut cleanly through the dramatic string-machine backing.

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