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Roland D-50, pad

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Contest: Roland D-50 played pad on Half Crazy by Johnny Gill (1990)

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Settings

osc
3 saw detuned, unison 5, detune 25 cents, sub none, noise 0.05
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
3000 Hz
resonance
0.1
envelope
A 800 ms D 400 ms S 0.8 R 1500 ms; slow swell in; filter env amount 0.3
modulation
lfo sine 0.2 Hz to cutoff
effects
long hall reverb, stereo chorus, none
notes
Slow-attack detuned saw pad under the ballad's chorus, wide unison for lushness with a gentle filter LFO to keep it breathing. Long reverb tail glues it into the string/vocal arrangement without competing with Gill's lead vocal.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem