Synth.Directory Creating the largest community driven synth knowledgebase

Oberheim OB-Xa, pad

Let's Go Crazy · Prince and the Revolution / Single (1984)

Unverified Inferred from the knowledge base. Nobody has cited a source yet; one accepted source makes it POTENTIALLY, one grade A source or two grade B sources verify it

Contest: Oberheim OB-Xa played pad on Let's Go Crazy by Prince and the Revolution (1984)

What is wrong?

Reviewed by a person. Verified claims stay as they are until a reviewer decides.

Settings

osc
Oberheim OB-Xa, 2 saw -1, unison 2, detune 10 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2000 Hz
resonance
0.1, drive 0.1
envelope
A 800 ms D 400 ms S 0.9 R 1500 ms; slow swell for the church-organ-style intro; filter env amount 0.2
effects
plate reverb, long tail, none
notes
The famous spoken-word intro rides a slow OB-Xa swell built to sound like a church organ, a wide saw pad with a long attack and a generous plate reverb tail before the band crashes in.

Sources

No source yet. A claim needs one grade A source, or two independent grade B sources, to be verified.

Images

No free-licence image yet.

Who played it

Nobody credited yet.

Log in to add a credit

Samples

Recordings of the instrument set to these settings, made fresh by contributors. Never a clip of the record.

No sample yet.

Revision history

  • Seedsystem