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Re: [xl7] Portlandia choir pad

2011-03-24 by Scott Solmonson

That video is awesome- thx!

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:12 AM, stimresp <stimresp@...> wrote:
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>> Anyway, to create something remotely on-topic, I've been watching
>> Portlandia (which is hilarious) and I'm struck by the title theme.
>> It's an airy pad that as you can guess fills a background space-
>> almost identical to the Gorillaz Stylo sound-
>> It's been heard elsewhere and long before, but I'm a programmer and
>> the mechanics of the sound are unknown to me- anyone want to comment?
>> I want to say it's 3-4 "breath" style formants played simultaneously,
>> but I'm just a player-hater and I love my TX-81Z.
>>
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> There are a some Vox presets that come close. The first one on the XL-7 - Humana is already 80% there. Layer it and slap-on the reverb (external maybe).
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> Similar choir sounds on other roms - I know Pop and Vintage have decent-ish choirs, much improved by layering and tweaking.
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> First heard on 10cc's I'm not in love? - fascinating to see how they made it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7oGenbp2I
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> By comparison we have it too easy!
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> Sorry if that's too nerdy forya.
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Scott Solmonson <scosol@...> wrote:
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>> Anyway, to create something remotely on-topic, I've been watching
>> Portlandia (which is hilarious) and I'm struck by the title theme.
>> It's an airy pad that as you can guess fills a background space-
>> almost identical to the Gorillaz Stylo sound-
>> It's been heard elsewhere and long before, but I'm a programmer and
>> the mechanics of the sound are unknown to me- anyone want to comment?
>> I want to say it's 3-4 "breath" style formants played simultaneously,
>> but I'm just a player-hater and I love my TX-81Z.
>>
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