Synth.Directory Creating the largest community driven synth knowledgebase

ARP Solina String Ensemble, pad

Unverified Inferred from the knowledge base. Nobody has cited a source yet; one accepted source makes it POTENTIALLY, one grade A source or two grade B sources verify it

Contest: ARP Solina String Ensemble played pad on Get Up and Boogie by Silver Convention (1976)

What is wrong?

Reviewed by a person. Verified claims stay as they are until a reviewer decides.

Settings

osc
2 saw + 1 tri, unison 3, detune 20 cents
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
3000 Hz
resonance
0.1
envelope
A 500 ms D 300 ms S 0.8 R 800 ms; static wash, brightness from oscillator layering not filter movement
modulation
lfo sine 0.2 Hz to cutoff
effects
chorus, plate reverb
notes
Munich disco productions of this era leaned hard on string-synth pads to fill out the orchestration cheaply, and this record is a textbook example, humming under the chant vocal with a slow filter breathe. Reconstructed by ear and anchored to Levay's documented Munich Machine studio methods.

Sources

No source yet. A claim needs one grade A source, or two independent grade B sources, to be verified.

Images

No free-licence image yet.

Who played it

Nobody credited yet.

Log in to add a credit

Samples

Recordings of the instrument set to these settings, made fresh by contributors. Never a clip of the record.

No sample yet.

Revision history

  • Seedsystem