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Access Virus TI, pad

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Contest: Access Virus TI played pad on Out of the Woods by Taylor Swift (2015)

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Settings

osc
3 saw, unison 3, detune 15 cents
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2375 Hz
resonance
0.17
envelope
A 600 ms D 400 ms S 0.7 R 1500 ms; slow swell that opens under the sustained chord, no snap
effects
long plate reverb, chorus
notes
The track builds from a pulsing, layered pad bed that thickens through each chorus, closer to Antonoff's 1980s-inflected synth-pop instincts than Swift's country roots. The pulses lock tightly to the drum pattern rather than sustaining freely. Reconstructed by ear; no confirmed patch details exist. Instrument choice is approximated from Max Martin/Shellback/Ilya's well documented MXM studio workflow of this era (widely reported in trade-press interviews): built around Access Virus TI and Roland Juno/Jupiter analogue-modelled synths tracked through Cubase, not a documented per-song patch sheet.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem