DCP Productions Motif XS, Owner'S Manual

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E8 – Mini Filtered 5th
“5
th
” interval lead with contoured filter envelope. Assign. Switch 1
adds noise, Assign. Switch 2 sets oscillator 2’s pitch to three octaves
below that of oscillator 1.
E9 – Wakeman Mini
I call this “Wakeman Mini” in honor of Rick Wakeman and the type
of sound he used on his solo albums like
Six Wives of Henry the VIII.
Or many of the Yes albums he played on. Assign. Function Switch 1
adds a third oscillator, and Assign. Function Switch 2 re-tunes that
oscillator to a 7
th
interval.
E10 – Styx Moog
Triple oscillator Minimoog lead from Styx’s song “Fooling Yourself”
(
Grand Illusion album). Assign. Function Switches 1 and 2 change
oscillator tuning intervals.
E11 – E.L.P. “Lucky Man”
The thick detuned square-wave lead sound used by Keith Emerson
for the song “Lucky Man” on the first Emerson, Lake and Palmer
album. The Minimoog hadn’t arrived at the studio at the time the track
was recorded, so Keith used his huge Moog Modular for the lead
sound. Assign. Function Switch 1 performs a very important function
for this voice – it changes the filter contour so that the filter whistles
and descends in pitch, as happens with the low notes at the very end
of the song. Engage Assignable Function Switch 1, and play C1 or
lower on the keyboard to hear the effect. Assignable Function Switch
2 increases the amount of reverb, simulating the increase in reverb
applied to the Moog at the end of the “Lucky Man” track. Hey, as they
say, God (or the devil) is in the details.
Sequential, Roland, ARP, and Korg sounds – E12 thru F1