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Moog Minimoog, bass

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Contest: Moog Minimoog played bass on Love to Love You Baby by Donna Summer (1976)

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Settings

osc
1 square + sub square -1, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub square -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
320 Hz
resonance
0.35, drive 0.3
envelope
A 2 ms D 90 ms S 0.9 R 60 ms; short percussive close on every eighth note, never fully opens; filter env amount 0.4
modulation
lfo square 4 Hz to amp, mono
effects
short slap-back delay, plate reverb kept low, drive
notes
A four-to-the-floor Minimoog pulse doubles the live bass guitar and eventually takes over as the track's engine, gated into repeating eighth notes with the amp envelope rather than a sequencer clock. The filter barely opens, keeping the tone a dark, woody thud that sits under Summer's vocal. No patch sheet survives from the Musicland sessions; this reconstructs the sound from the record and Moroder's well documented Minimoog-into-modular routine of 1975-76.

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  • Seedsystem