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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Synthi AKS, fx

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Synthi AKS played fx on Autobahn by Kraftwerk (1974)

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Settings

osc
2 saw + noise, unison 2, detune 25 cents, sub none, noise 0.3
filter
bandpass, resonant, slowly swept
cutoff
2000 Hz
resonance
0.5, drive 0.1
envelope
A 600 ms D 500 ms S 0.6 R 1500 ms; slow, continuous sweep rather than a per-note shape; filter env amount 0.45
modulation
lfo tri 0.1 Hz to cutoff
effects
tape echo, panned wide for the passing-traffic stereo effect, none
notes
The washier, more abstract passages later in the piece: two detuned saws plus noise through a slowly swept resonant bandpass, panned hard and echoed to suggest the doppler whoosh of passing traffic rather than a fixed melodic line.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem