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Roland TR-808, pad

New Slaves · Kanye West / Single (2013)

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Contest: Roland TR-808 played pad on New Slaves by Kanye West (2013)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + 1 square, unison 2, detune 8 cents, sub none
filter
HP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
800 Hz
resonance
0.3
envelope
A 500 ms D 1200 ms S 0.4 R 2000 ms; static, unmoving pad with no filter automation, deliberately stark; filter env amount 0
effects
none, completely dry, none
notes
A stark, unmoving synth pad sits behind the verses with almost no processing, part of the track's famously minimal arrangement. Reconstructed by ear from the track's documented bare-bones production.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem