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PPG Wave 2.3, pad

Afternoons in Utopia · Alphaville / Single (1986)

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Contest: PPG Wave 2.3 played pad on Afternoons in Utopia by Alphaville (1986)

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Settings

osc
wavetable sweep 'strings', unison 2, detune 9 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
1600 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.1
envelope
A 500 ms D 1000 ms S 0.55 R 1800 ms; slow wavetable scan; filter env amount 0.3
modulation
lfo tri 0.15 Hz to cutoff
effects
chorus: wide; hall reverb, long, none
notes
Title track's icy PPG Wave 2.3 pad, wavetable position slowly scanned for movement under the vocal; the version dedicated 'For Inka' in the liner notes, mixed spacious to match the album's Fairlight-assisted production.

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  • Seedsystem