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ARP 2600, lead

On the Road Again · Rockets / Single (1977)

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Contest: ARP 2600 played lead on On the Road Again by Rockets (1977)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + 1 square sub-osc, unison 1, detune 0 cents, sub square -1
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
1800 Hz
resonance
0.45, drive 0.3
envelope
A 3 ms D 80 ms S 0.7 R 120 ms; sharp downward sweep on each note attack, mimicking the original's slide-guitar riff; filter env amount 0.5
modulation
lfo sine 6 Hz to pitch, glide 60 ms, mono
effects
plate reverb, mono, drive
notes
The Mini-Moog lead directly restates the blues-rock guitar riff of the original, using a fast filter-envelope sweep and light overdrive to approximate a wah/slide sound in synth terms, in service of Rockets' gimmick of covering rock standards with an all-electronic, robot-suited band.

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  • Seedsystem