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New England Digital Synclavier II, fx

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Contest: New England Digital Synclavier II played fx on Beat It (intro gong) by Michael Jackson (1982)

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Settings

osc
1 sine + 1 square, wide detune (inharmonic approximation), unison 2, detune 30 cents, sub sine -1
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
5000 Hz
resonance
0.05
envelope
A 1 ms D 2000 ms S 0 R 3000 ms; long slow close mimicking bell decay; filter env amount 0.4
effects
long hall reverb, subtle flange for inharmonic shimmer, none
notes
Synclavier II additive/FM synthesis built a genuinely inharmonic bell for the Beat It intro gong hit; true bell physics needs non-integer partials that a simple subtractive oscillator bank can't reproduce exactly. This patch fakes the shimmer with wide detune between a sine and square voice plus a slow post-filter flange, and a very long filter/amp decay to match the gong's multi-second bloom.

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  • Seedsystem