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Roland D-50, pad

Sadeness Part I · Enigma / Single (1990)

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Contest: Roland D-50 played pad on Sadeness Part I by Enigma (1990)

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Settings

osc
D-50 'digital choir' PCM waveform + 2 saw, unison 2, detune 14 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
2200 Hz
resonance
0.1
envelope
A 500 ms D 400 ms S 0.75 R 2000 ms; very slow, reverent swell; filter env amount 0.15
effects
cathedral-scale reverb, very long tail, none
notes
A vast, slowly swelling D-50 choir-pad wraps around the sampled chant, drenched in a cathedral-scale reverb that became the sonic signature of the whole record.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem