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ARP Soloist, fx

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Contest: ARP Soloist played fx on I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) by Genesis (1974)

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Settings

osc
1 square + noise, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none, noise 0.5
filter
bandpass, buzzy, imitating a two-stroke engine
cutoff
1200 Hz
resonance
0.4, drive 0.4
envelope
A 50 ms D 300 ms S 0.7 R 400 ms; repeating stutter to imitate a pull-cord engine catching and idling; filter env amount 0.5
modulation
lfo square 7 Hz to amp, mono
effects
none, a novelty sound effect layered into the arrangement rather than a musical hook, drive
notes
A novelty use, not the song's main hook (which is guitar and vocal): Tony Banks' ARP Pro Soloist imitates a lawnmower engine in the intro and outro, a buzzy square-and-noise patch through a resonant bandpass with a stuttering amplitude LFO to mimic the engine catching and idling.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem