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Yamaha DX7, pad

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played pad on A Different Corner by George Michael (1986)

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Settings

osc
FM 6-op, algorithm with 2 carriers + 4 modulators, bell/EP hybrid, unison 1, detune 6 cents, sub none
filter
gentle post-EQ roll rather than a resonant filter (FM tone is voiced by operator ratios)
cutoff
9000 Hz
resonance
0.05
envelope
A 8 ms D 600 ms S 0.55 R 1800 ms; static, tone shaped by FM operator envelopes not a subtractive filter sweep; filter env amount 0
modulation
lfo sine 4.5 Hz to amp
effects
long plate reverb (3.5s decay), stereo chorus for width, none
notes
The DX7's characteristic bell-FM patch sustained under the vocal, never resolving, mirroring the song's unresolved, aching lyric. Amp envelope has a slow attack so the pad blooms in rather than stabs, and a long release lets chords bleed into each other under the heavy plate reverb.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem