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Yamaha DX7, pad

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played pad on So This Is X-Mas by Laid Back (1987)

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Settings

osc
2 saw + DX7 FM bell layer, unison 3, detune 12 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct, gently opened on chord changes
cutoff
3200 Hz
resonance
0.15, drive 0.05
envelope
A 800 ms D 400 ms S 0.8 R 1200 ms; slow swell into each new chord, no snap on the attack; filter env amount 0.25
modulation
lfo sine 0.3 Hz to cutoff
effects
wide stereo chorus, long plate reverb (roughly 2.5s tail), none
notes
A detuned twin-saw Juno pad is layered with a DX7 FM bell/glockenspiel voice for the sleigh-bell overtone that gives the track its wintry colour, the slow attack keeping it clear of the vocal. Wide chorus and a long plate reverb open the sound out, in keeping with Laid Back's electronic Copenhagen productions of the period; the single reached number 10 on the Danish chart in 1987.

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  • Seedsystem