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Yamaha DX7, keys

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played keys on Losing My Mind by Charlie Puth (2016)

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Settings

osc
1 DX7-EP model + 1 Rhodes-EP model (blend 60/40), unison 1, detune 6 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
4800 Hz
resonance
0.08, drive 0.05
envelope
A 4 ms D 260 ms S 0.55 R 700 ms; soft open on the sampled Vera Hall vocal hits; filter env amount 0.12
modulation
lfo tri 3.8 Hz to amp
effects
plate reverb ~25%, short slap delay, none
notes
Built around a sampled 1930s field recording of "Wild Ox Moan", the keys track lays a soft DX7 electric-piano tone under the chorus to modernise the antique sample without fighting it. A thin Rhodes layer widens the stereo image; the filter only breathes on the loudest vocal swells.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem