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Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, lead

Emotion · Carly Rae Jepsen / Single (2015)

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Contest: Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 played lead on Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (2015)

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Settings

osc
1 saw (sax-modeled formant), unison 1, detune 4 cents, sub none, noise 0.05
filter
BP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
1800 Hz
resonance
0.35, drive 0.1
envelope
A 15 ms D 200 ms S 0.5 R 300 ms; breathy swell on each phrase, formant-shaped like a sax; filter env amount 0.3
modulation
glide 40 ms, mono
effects
chorus, plate reverb, none
notes
The title track's famous instrumental hook is a synth built to imitate an 80s saxophone solo, band-pass filtered and slurred between notes with a short glide, straight out of the record's Robert Palmer/Bryan Ferry-referencing 80s palette.

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  • Seedsystem