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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3, pad

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Contest: Electronic Music Studios (EMS) VCS3 played pad on Sea Breezes by Roxy Music (1972)

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Settings

osc
VCS3 dual sine/saw oscillators cross-patched, ring-modulated against the source signal, unison 1, detune 25 cents, sub none, noise 0.2
filter
VCS3 3-pole diode-ladder LP, driven near self-oscillation
cutoff
700 Hz
resonance
0.3, drive 0.35
envelope
A 500 ms D 600 ms S 0.7 R 2000 ms; hand-swept via VCS3 pin-matrix joystick rather than a fixed envelope, irregular rise/fall; filter env amount 0.2
modulation
lfo sine 0.15 Hz to cutoff, mono
effects
Revox tape-echo slapback, spring reverb, hard-panned during the treatment passages, fuzz
notes
The slow, becalmed intro and outro either side of the song's hard-rock midsection carry a held VCS3 drone, giving the ballad sections their unsettled, oceanic wash.

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  • Seedsystem