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Access Virus TI, lead

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Contest: Access Virus TI played lead on What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber (2015)

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Settings

osc
2 saw, unison 2, detune 12 cents
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
4410 Hz
resonance
0.26
envelope
A 5 ms D 150 ms S 0.6 R 200 ms; filter opens on the attack then settles, giving the lead its edge
modulation
mono
effects
chorus, short slapback delay
notes
The opening hook is a bright, woody pluck that reads as part real marimba, part synthesized pluck layered underneath for low-end weight. It is short, tuned, and repeated as the song's central motif. Reconstructed by ear; no confirmed gear list is public. Instrument choice is approximated from Max Martin/Shellback/Ilya's well documented MXM studio workflow of this era (widely reported in trade-press interviews): built around Access Virus TI and Roland Juno/Jupiter analogue-modelled synths tracked through Cubase, not a documented per-song patch sheet.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem