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Elektor Formant, lead

Boom Boom Pow · The Black Eyed Peas / Single (2009)

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Contest: Elektor Formant played lead on Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas (2009)

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Settings

osc
1 saw + 1 square, unison 1, detune 5 cents
filter
LP 24 dB/oct
cutoff
1200 Hz
resonance
0.4
envelope
A 1 ms D 50 ms S 0.5 R 60 ms; choppy gated pulses on the 'boom boom' hits, the filter snapping shut between each gate so the sound reads mechanical rather than played
modulation
lfo square 8 Hz to amp, mono
effects
distortion, vocoder-style formant fx
notes
will.i.am's future-facing production is built from robotic, gated synth stabs rather than a sustained melody, the amplitude chopped on a fast square LFO to mimic vocoder gating. The vocal itself is heavily vocoded, blurring the line between voice and synth.

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  • Seedsystem