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Moog Minimoog, lead

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Contest: Moog Minimoog played lead on Beautiful Day by Mary J. Blige (2001)

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Settings

osc
2 saw detuned unison3, unison 3, detune 22 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
3182 Hz
resonance
0.132, drive 0.217
envelope
A 10.3 ms D 359.7 ms S 0.502 R 211.8 ms; opens on the attack then settles to the sustained cutoff; filter env amount 0.31
modulation
lfo square 0.2 Hz to cutoff, glide 50 ms, mono
effects
short slap delay, plate reverb, SP1200/MPC grit on the drum bus, none
notes
a melodic synth lead doubles or answers the vocal line on "Beautiful Day", built the way early-2000s Track Masters and Dr. Dre-adjacent production: Minimoog-style analog bass and MPC-sequenced synth stabs over the hip-hop soul sample bed would have cut it for No More Drama (2001). Waveform: 2 saw detuned unison3, filtered through a LP 12 dB/oct stage around 3182 Hz; the envelope (10.3/359.7/0.502/211.8 ms) is slower and swelling to sit under Mary J. Blige's vocal without crowding it.

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  • Seedsystem