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Roland D-50, arp

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Contest: Roland D-50 played arp on Fire by Magic Affair (1994)

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Settings

osc
1 saw -1 + 1 square -1, unison 1, detune 6 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct, bright and cutting
cutoff
6000 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.05
envelope
A 1 ms D 60 ms S 0 R 40 ms; short bright pluck per arp step; filter env amount 0.3
modulation
lfo square 4 Hz to cutoff, mono
effects
chorus, ping-pong 1/16 delay locked to the arp pattern, none
notes
A fast 1/16 arpeggio runs through the verses and chorus, a bright saw/square hybrid plucked short so each step reads clean, with a synced delay doubling the pattern for width, the same driving-arp device Cottura used across his early-90s productions.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem