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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, pad

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played pad on Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd (1975)

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Settings

osc
VCS3 dual osc, saw + pulse, unison 1, detune 15 cents, sub none, noise 0.15
filter
VCS3 lowpass, resonant
cutoff
800 Hz
resonance
0.55, drive 0.1
envelope
A 400 ms D 2000 ms S 0.8 R 3000 ms; very slow sweep opening across the intro; filter env amount 0.6
modulation
lfo sine 0.15 Hz to cutoff, glide 300 ms, mono
effects
heavy tape delay and plate reverb, panned hard across stereo, none
notes
The famous opening drone is a VCS3 patched through its own filter with a slow manual sweep, then layered with tape-flanged machine-noise pulses. Wright and Waters built the whole intro from oscillator sweeps rather than a fixed patch, so this is a best-guess recreation of the moving texture.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem