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Oberheim OB-8, pad

Purple Rain · Prince and the Revolution / Single (1984)

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Contest: Oberheim OB-8 played pad on Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution (1984)

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Settings

osc
Fairlight CMI, orchestral string patch, unison 4, detune 20 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2800 Hz
resonance
0.05
envelope
A 1000 ms D 500 ms S 0.9 R 2000 ms; very slow swell under the guitar solo; filter env amount 0.1
effects
large hall reverb, none
notes
A Fairlight orchestral-string pad swells beneath the extended guitar solo, wide and slow-attacked to give the ballad its cinematic scale.

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  • Seedsystem