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Oberheim OB-Xa, lead

Fall in Love with Me · Earth, Wind & Fire / Single (1983)

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Contest: Oberheim OB-Xa played lead on Fall in Love with Me by Earth, Wind & Fire (1983)

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Settings

osc
2 saw -1, unison 3, detune 16 cents, sub none, noise 0.04
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
4000 Hz
resonance
0.25, drive 0.1
envelope
A 6 ms D 200 ms S 0.55 R 260 ms; bright, breezy open; filter env amount 0.3
effects
chorus, plate reverb, none
notes
A bright, chorused Oberheim OB-Xa lead gives the song its breezy, early-80s boogie feel, part of the sleeker digital-adjacent synth palette the group adopted on Powerlight.

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  • Seedsystem