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Akai Mpc2000Xl, pad

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Contest: Akai Mpc2000Xl played pad on Never Let Me Down by Kanye West (2004)

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Settings

osc
1 saw -1 + soft sine sub, unison 3, detune 6 cents, sub none
filter
LP24 style
cutoff
1229 Hz
resonance
0.05, drive 0.05
envelope
A 14 ms D 364 ms S 0.6 R 560 ms; slow filter swell on entry; filter env amount -0.25
effects
warm plate reverb, light tape saturation, no chorus, none
notes
MPC2000XL sample layering; sparse added synth, warm and soulful in period. On 'Never Let Me Down', this shows up as a soft pad bed cushioning the choir tag that closes the track. Patch built from the album's documented/era-typical gear rather than a leaked session file, so treat cutoff and envelope numbers as representative of the era, not a measured capture.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem