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Clavia Nord Lead, pad

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Contest: Clavia Nord Lead played pad on You Choose by Pet Shop Boys (2002)

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Settings

osc
string-machine ensemble -8, unison 1, detune 16 cents, sub none, noise 0.12
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2899 Hz
resonance
0.35, drive 0.06
envelope
A 378 ms D 368 ms S 0.35 R 296 ms; slow filter opening across the phrase; filter env amount 0.15
modulation
lfo tri 2.98 Hz to pitch
effects
short plate reverb, light slap delay, drive
notes
On this Release-era synth-pop track, a detuned pad glides between chords, giving the track its width. Built from string-machine ensemble -8 through a LP 12 dB/oct filter (slow filter opening across the phrase), it sits in the mix true to the period's Nord Lead and early softsynths kept deliberately in the background of Johnny Marr's guitars-driven productions.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem