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Roland D-50, keys

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Contest: Roland D-50 played keys on Treaty by Yothu Yindi (1991)

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Settings

osc
2 saw detuned + PWM square, unison 2, detune 18 cents, sub none
filter
LP 12 dB/oct, bright
cutoff
4200 Hz
resonance
0.2, drive 0.1
envelope
A 2 ms D 120 ms S 0 R 60 ms; quick punch on the hit, no sustained movement; filter env amount 0.4
effects
plate reverb, short slap delay synced to the chorus phrase, none
notes
Rhythmic synth stabs punctuate the chorus hook ('this land was never given up') behind the vocal, a standard remix-era trick of the time for turning an album track into a dancefloor record. Bright and short so they read as percussion as much as melody.

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  • Seedsystem