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ARP 2500, fx

Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long Long Time) · Elton John / Single (1972)

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Contest: ARP 2500 played fx on Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long Long Time) by Elton John (1972)

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Settings

osc
1 saw, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub none, noise 0.1
filter
LP 12 dB/oct, swept wide open
cutoff
8000 Hz
resonance
0.15
envelope
A 400 ms D 200 ms S 0.7 R 1200 ms; slow full-range sweep synced to a long pitch glide, the source of the sci-fi swoosh; filter env amount 0.6
modulation
lfo saw 0.15 Hz to pitch, glide 900 ms, mono
effects
plate reverb, long decay to sit the sweep behind the vocal and strings, none
notes
A secondary texture, not the song's main hook: a single sawtooth voice glides slowly across a wide pitch range while the filter opens in step, producing the descending/ascending sci-fi swoosh that appears around the choruses. It sits low in the mix behind Elton's piano and the string arrangement.

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  • Seedsystem