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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, fx

Pyjamarama · Roxy Music / Single (1973)

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played fx on Pyjamarama by Roxy Music (1973)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + noise, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none, noise 0.3
filter
bandpass, resonant, hand-swept via joystick
cutoff
1700 Hz
resonance
0.55, drive 0.2
envelope
A 20 ms D 250 ms S 0.6 R 500 ms; irregular hand-controlled sweeps rather than a fixed shape; filter env amount 0.4
modulation
lfo sh 3 Hz to cutoff, mono
effects
tape echo, treated alongside the live band signal, none
notes
Eno's VCS3 threads texture and treatments through the track rather than carrying a fixed riff, hand-swept filter movement via the instrument's joystick control, noisy and unpredictable in the way Eno's live '73-era VCS3 use is consistently described.

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  • Seedsystem