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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, pad

Beauty Queen · Roxy Music / Single (1973)

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played pad on Beauty Queen by Roxy Music (1973)

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Settings

osc
Mellotron 3-head tape playback, strings/choir tape bank layered, unison 1, detune 15 cents, sub none
filter
gentle LP rolling off tape hiss and top end
cutoff
3600 Hz
resonance
0.1, drive 0.1
envelope
A 40 ms D 300 ms S 0.8 R 900 ms; static, almost no movement; filter env amount 0.1
modulation
lfo sine 0.4 Hz to pitch
effects
plate reverb, tape saturation, tape wow/flutter, none
notes
The tempo-shifting ballad-to-rocker leans on a Mellotron string pad for the verses, with Eno's VCS3 broadening it into a synthetic wash as the song lifts into its faster coda.

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  • Seedsystem