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Elektor Formant, pad

For What It's Worth · Talk Talk / Single (1986)

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Contest: Elektor Formant played pad on For What It's Worth by Talk Talk (1986)

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Settings

osc
1 saw -1 + 1 square -1, unison 2, detune 12 cents, sub none, noise 0.06
filter
BP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
950 Hz
resonance
0.1, drive 0.04
envelope
A 80 ms D 350 ms S 0.65 R 600 ms; breathy, formant-shifted swell characteristic of the Variophon's wind control; filter env amount 0.22
effects
plate reverb, none
notes
B-side to 'Living in Another World' (March 1986); a breathy Variophon pad, the same wind-controlled formant instrument Mark Hollis played on 'April 5th' and 'Time It's Time'.

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  • Seedsystem