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Roland Jupiter-8, pad

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Contest: Roland Jupiter-8 played pad on Dance with Me by Alphaville (1986)

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Settings

osc
PPG wavetable pad + Jupiter-8 detuned saws, unison 3, detune 24 cents, sub sine -1, noise 0.05
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
2600 Hz
resonance
0.15
envelope
A 700 ms D 1300 ms S 0.75 R 2000 ms; slow rise under the verse giving the track its cool, spacious wash; filter env amount 0.3
modulation
lfo sine 0.18 Hz to cutoff
effects
hall reverb, stereo ensemble chorus, none
notes
PPG wavetable and Jupiter-8 saws layer into a wide, cool-toned pad, the kind of icy synth-pop wash Alphaville leaned on across the Afternoons in Utopia sessions. A slow cutoff LFO and hall reverb give the pad its floating, spacious character behind the vocal.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem