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New England Digital Synclavier, pad

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Contest: New England Digital Synclavier played pad on The Facts of Life by Talking Heads (1988)

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Settings

osc
4 saw -1, unison 5, detune 20 cents, sub sine -1, noise 0.08
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
1600 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.05
envelope
A 500 ms D 400 ms S 0.7 R 900 ms; slow swell across the long form; filter env amount 0.25
modulation
lfo sine 0.15 Hz to cutoff
effects
plate reverb, generous given the track's 6:25 length, none
notes
At over six minutes, a slow-moving Synclavier pad gives the track's extended groove somewhere to breathe beneath the horns and percussion.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem