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Roland TR-808, pad

Blood on the Leaves · Kanye West / Single (2013)

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Contest: Roland TR-808 played pad on Blood on the Leaves by Kanye West (2013)

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Settings

osc
3 saw, unison 4, detune 26 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
1000 Hz
resonance
0.25
envelope
A 900 ms D 800 ms S 0.68 R 2400 ms; distorted, slowly building swell behind the sampled Nina Simone vocal; filter env amount 0
modulation
glide 0.35 ms
effects
heavy reverb, TR-808-style horn stabs layered in, none
notes
A dark, slow-building synth pad grows increasingly distorted across the track, underneath the sampled 'Strange Fruit' vocal, before the horn-stab drop. Reconstructed by ear from the track's documented arrangement.

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  • Seedsystem