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Kachkanar Maestro, fx

Family Affair · Sly and the Family Stone / Single (1971)

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Contest: Kachkanar Maestro played fx on Family Affair by Sly and the Family Stone (1971)

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Settings

osc
1 square + noise, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none, noise 0.4
filter
band-pass, tuned to a small transistor drum-machine 'boom/cha' character
cutoff
900 Hz
resonance
0.3, drive 0.1
envelope
A 1 ms D 25 ms S 0 R 15 ms; static; filter env amount 0
modulation
mono
effects
dry and close, no reverb - early transistor rhythm units were recorded flat and up-front, crush
notes
The 'instrument' here is a preset drum machine rather than a melodic synth part - approximate its transistor-organ-adjacent 'boom' and 'cha' voices with a filtered square-plus-noise hit, kept dry and slightly crushed to match the thin, uncoloured character of an early-1970s rhythm unit.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem