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Oberheim OB-Xa, keys

Break It Up · Foreigner / Single (1981)

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Contest: Oberheim OB-Xa played keys on Break It Up by Foreigner (1981)

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Settings

osc
3 saw unison spread, unison 3, detune 14 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
3000 Hz
resonance
0.1, drive 0.05
envelope
A 150 ms D 300 ms S 0.7 R 500 ms; gentle swell; filter env amount 0.2
modulation
lfo sine 0.2 Hz to cutoff
effects
hall reverb, light chorus, none
notes
A sustained synth-pad layer sits under the verse chords, warming the arrangement the way Thomas Dolby's session synth work did across the '4' album.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem