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Roland Jupiter-8, pad

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Contest: Roland Jupiter-8 played pad on Little Girl by Sandra (1988)

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Settings

osc
Fairlight CMI orchestral string sample + 2 saw, unison 2, detune 15 cents, sub none
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
2600 Hz
resonance
0.1
envelope
A 400 ms D 350 ms S 0.7 R 1400 ms; slow, cinematic swell; filter env amount 0.2
modulation
lfo sine 0.3 Hz to cutoff
effects
lush plate reverb, stereo chorus, none
notes
A lush Fairlight-sampled string pad layered with Jupiter-8 saws gives the verses their cinematic Cretu sheen, a texture he reused and refined across Sandra's mid-80s singles into the Enigma sound a few years later.

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  • Seedsystem