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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, fx

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played fx on The Bogus Man by Roxy Music (1973)

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osc
VCS3 dual sine/saw oscillators cross-patched, ring-modulated against the source signal, unison 1, detune 25 cents, sub none, noise 0.2
filter
VCS3 3-pole diode-ladder LP, driven near self-oscillation
cutoff
3200 Hz
resonance
0.85, drive 0.35
envelope
A 5 ms D 300 ms S 0.5 R 900 ms; hand-swept via VCS3 pin-matrix joystick rather than a fixed envelope, irregular rise/fall; filter env amount 0.75
modulation
lfo sh 3.5 Hz to cutoff, mono
effects
Revox tape-echo slapback, spring reverb, hard-panned during the treatment passages, fuzz
notes
The album's extended krautrock-indebted groove is built around a relentless VCS3 treatment, Eno sweeping resonance and sample-and-hold noise across the loop for most of its nine minutes.

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  • Seedsystem