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Roland JD-800, lead

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Contest: Roland JD-800 played lead on Shangri-La by Denki Groove (1997)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + 1 pulse pwm, unison 1, detune 5 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
1800 Hz
resonance
0.55, drive 0.3
envelope
A 2 ms D 180 ms S 0.5 R 150 ms; resonant sweep on the hook riff, opens upward each bar; filter env amount 0.6
modulation
lfo tri 0.3 Hz to pw, glide 15 ms, mono
effects
short slap delay + phaser, giving the riff its wobble, drive
notes
Shangri-La's synth hook is a resonant, acid-adjacent lead: a saw/PWM pulse stack swept by a filter envelope that snaps open each bar, with a slow PWM drift for movement. It sits at the front of the mix as the track's main instrumental identity, closer to the group's electro roots than mainstream J-pop production.

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  • Seedsystem