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Akai S950, fx

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Contest: Akai S950 played fx on Breathe by The Prodigy (1996)

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Settings

osc
white noise + resonant swept saw, unison 1, detune 2 cents, sub none, noise 0.6
filter
BP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
1263 Hz
resonance
0.79, drive 0.39
envelope
A 240 ms D 1333 ms S 0.28 R 835 ms; long dramatic sweep across the cutoff range for the transition; filter env amount 0.79
modulation
lfo sh 2.99 Hz to cutoff
effects
long reverb, tape delay feedback, crush
notes
A menacing sub-heavy bassline drives the verses under sharp brassy stabs and abrasive filter-swept FX on the pre-chorus buildups. For the fx, a filtered noise/saw sweep is used as a transitional riser or impact.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem