Synth.Directory Creating the largest community driven synth knowledgebase

Yamaha DX7, bass

The Pleasure Principle · Janet Jackson / Single (1986)

Unverified Inferred from the knowledge base. Nobody has cited a source yet; one accepted source makes it POTENTIALLY, one grade A source or two grade B sources verify it

Contest: Yamaha DX7 played bass on The Pleasure Principle by Janet Jackson (1986)

What is wrong?

Reviewed by a person. Verified claims stay as they are until a reviewer decides.

Settings

osc
FM 4-op slap-bass hybrid, unison 1, detune 0 cents
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
400 Hz
resonance
0.3
envelope
A 1 ms D 35 ms S 0.7 R 80 ms; tight funk pulse, percussive attack; filter env amount 0.4
modulation
mono
effects
none, drive
notes
A snapping, percussive DX7 bass patch (a Jam & Lewis signature) drives the groove in place of a live bass, characteristic of the Flyte Tyme sound documented across the Control album. Inferred from the production team's well-known DX7-bass technique.

Sources

No source yet. A claim needs one grade A source, or two independent grade B sources, to be verified.

Images

No free-licence image yet.

Who played it

Nobody credited yet.

Log in to add a credit

Samples

Recordings of the instrument set to these settings, made fresh by contributors. Never a clip of the record.

No sample yet.

Revision history

  • Seedsystem