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Propellerhead Subtractor, lead

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Contest: Propellerhead Subtractor played lead on Satisfaction by Benny Benassi (2002)

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Settings

osc
2 saw stack (Reason Subtractor-class), unison 2, detune 15 cents, sub none, noise 0.05
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
1800 Hz
resonance
0.65, drive 0.3
envelope
A 2 ms D 90 ms S 0 R 60 ms; hard-swept per 16th note; the whole riff is the filter sweep, not the note pattern; filter env amount 0.8
modulation
lfo sh 4 Hz to cutoff
effects
short room reverb, mix kept dry and upfront, drive
notes
The famous 'Satisfaction' riff is a single detuned saw stack put through an aggressively resonant, fast-swept low-pass filter, closer to an acid-house sweep than a melodic lead. Reconstructed from the well-documented Reason-based Benassi Bros production chain of this period.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem