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Roland D-50, pad

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Contest: Roland D-50 played pad on Mother's Pride by George Michael (1990)

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Settings

osc
1 sample layer (strings) + D-50 pad, unison 3, detune 4 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2800 Hz
resonance
0.05
envelope
A 800 ms D 900 ms S 0.7 R 1600 ms; very slow swell across each verse; filter env amount 0.15
effects
cathedral-style reverb, no delay, none
notes
A hushed, mostly acoustic arrangement (guitar and real strings) is thickened only by a low, distant synth-string pad that swells under the choruses, keeping the mix restrained for the song's wartime lyric.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem