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PPG Wave 2.2, pad

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Contest: PPG Wave 2.2 played pad on Dream Within a Dream by Propaganda (1985)

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Settings

osc
2 detuned saw + PPG wavetable sweep, unison 3, detune 18 cents, sub none, noise 0.05
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
2200 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.05
envelope
A 800 ms D 600 ms S 0.8 R 2500 ms; slow open across the spoken-word intro build; filter env amount 0.4
modulation
lfo sine 0.15 Hz to cutoff
effects
large plate reverb, long pre-delay, light chorus, none
notes
The album's overture builds from near silence into a wide detuned pad under the spoken intro. A wavetable sweep on the PPG gives the texture slow internal motion while the Fairlight layer supplies body, both drenched in Horn's signature cavernous plate reverb.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem