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Yamaha CS-80, arp

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Contest: Yamaha CS-80 played arp on Somebody Up There Likes You by Simple Minds (1982)

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Settings

osc
2 saw, unison 1, detune 12 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
3190 Hz
resonance
0.31
envelope
A 1 ms D 40 ms S 0.2 R 60 ms; gate-like, each step brightens then closes; filter env amount 0.3
modulation
lfo sh 4.1 Hz to pitch, mono
effects
short slapback delay locked to tempo, none
notes
On "Somebody Up There Likes You", Simple Minds' rig for this record: Roland Jupiter-8 and Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 for pads, Yamaha CS-80 for the widescreen swells, played alongside Charlie Burchill's guitar rather than instead of it. Here it carries a sequenced arpeggio pattern, short gated notes stepping through the chord. Reconstructed by ear from the record; no official patch sheet survives for this part, so the specific oscillator and filter values are an informed approximation anchored to the album's known gear.

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  • Seedsystem