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Yamaha DX7, lead

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Contest: Yamaha DX7 played lead on Brother Louie by Modern Talking (1986)

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Settings

osc
2 saw +7, unison 3, detune 12 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
4200 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.1
envelope
A 3 ms D 120 ms S 0.7 R 180 ms; brief open on the attack of every riff repeat, then settles flat; filter env amount 0.15
modulation
lfo sine 5.5 Hz to pitch, mono
effects
bright stereo chorus, short plate reverb, none
notes
The four-note hook line is a bright, slightly detuned FM-style lead doubled with a wavetable layer for shimmer, kept mono so every repeat lands identically over the four-on-the-floor beat. Continental European hit, huge across Benelux; reconstructed from the record and Bohlen's well-documented DX7/PPG combination of this era.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem