Synth.Directory Creating the largest community driven synth knowledgebase

E-mu Emulator, bass

Work Hard · Depeche Mode / Single (1983)

Unverified Inferred from the knowledge base. Nobody has cited a source yet; one accepted source makes it POTENTIALLY, one grade A source or two grade B sources verify it

Contest: E-mu Emulator played bass on Work Hard by Depeche Mode (1983)

What is wrong?

Reviewed by a person. Verified claims stay as they are until a reviewer decides.

Settings

osc
PPG wavetable, unison 1, detune 27 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
126 Hz
resonance
0.47, drive 0.16
envelope
A 9 ms D 231 ms S 0.13 R 200 ms; fast pluck-then-close; filter env amount 0.39
modulation
mono
effects
hall reverb, tape slap delay, none
notes
A tight, percussive synth bass drives the chant-like album closer. Built as a synth bass line in the style of Construction Time Again-era Depeche Mode, drawing on PPG Wave 2, E-mu Emulator sampler and Synclavier, with an E-mu Drumulator and Roland TR-808 for rhythm.

Sources

No source yet. A claim needs one grade A source, or two independent grade B sources, to be verified.

Images

No free-licence image yet.

Who played it

Nobody credited yet.

Log in to add a credit

Samples

Recordings of the instrument set to these settings, made fresh by contributors. Never a clip of the record.

No sample yet.

Revision history

  • Seedsystem