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Yamaha DX7, arp

Fast Girls · Janet Jackson / Single (1984)

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played arp on Fast Girls by Janet Jackson (1984)

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Settings

osc
square + saw, unison 2, detune 6 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
5150 Hz
resonance
0.34
envelope
A 2 ms D 90 ms S 0.4 R 120 ms; slow swell under the vocal; filter env amount 0.2
modulation
lfo tri 0.8 Hz to cutoff
effects
delay, short room reverb, none
notes
A pulsing 16th-note arpeggio drives the uptempo verses, characteristic of early-80s synth-pop-adjacent boogie.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem