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E-mu Emulator, pad

Sometimes · Depeche Mode / Single (1986)

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Contest: E-mu Emulator played pad on Sometimes by Depeche Mode (1986)

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Settings

osc
wavetable + sub square -1, unison 1, detune 20 cents, sub square -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
2041 Hz
resonance
0.46
envelope
A 185 ms D 538 ms S 0.76 R 2145 ms; slow bloom into the mix; filter env amount -0.1
effects
plate reverb, tape delay, none
notes
A thin PPG pad drifts through the track's minimal arrangement. Built as a sustained synth pad in the style of Black Celebration-era Depeche Mode, drawing on PPG Wave 2.3 and Synclavier, with Emulator-sampled choirs and metallic percussion.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem