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New England Digital Synclavier, pad

Cool Water · Talking Heads / Single (1988)

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Contest: New England Digital Synclavier played pad on Cool Water by Talking Heads (1988)

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Settings

osc
5 saw -1, unison 6, detune 30 cents, sub sine -1, noise 0.15
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
900 Hz
resonance
0.25, drive 0.05
envelope
A 1200 ms D 900 ms S 0.6 R 2200 ms; very slow open then close; filter env amount 0.35
modulation
lfo sine 0.08 Hz to cutoff
effects
long, dark hall reverb, none
notes
The album's closing track dissolves into a wide, slow-breathing Synclavier pad, the record's final and most explicitly ambient synth statement, echoing the parched-desert imagery of the title.

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  • Seedsystem