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Oberheim OB-Xa, pad

Jump · Van Halen / Single (1984)

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Contest: Oberheim OB-Xa played pad on Jump by Van Halen (1984)

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Settings

osc
2 saw + 1 tri, unison 3, detune 19 cents
filter
LP 12 dB/oct
cutoff
2600 Hz
resonance
0.17
envelope
A 400 ms D 500 ms S 0.8 R 1100 ms; slow filter swell that opens under the sustained chord
modulation
lfo sine 0.39 Hz to cutoff
effects
chorus, none
notes
Underneath the soaring lead riff, a sustained OB-Xa chord bed fills out the arrangement, the second layer of Eddie Van Halen's synth part. Reconstructed by ear.

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Revision history

  • Seedsystem