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Oxygene IV brass lead

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We’ll use Cherry Audio’s Voltage Modular Nucleus to approximate Jarre’s ARP 2600 patch. Clicking New in the upper-left clears our rack. We’ll grab a Mini LFO and pair of Oscillators from the Library. We’ll get a 6-Input Mixer, a Filter, and a pair of Envelope Generators. We’ll also grab an Amplifier, a Spring Reverb, and a Delay module.

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Let’s start patching. We’ll run cables from the CV Sources’ Pitch jack down to each Oscillator’s Pitch CV jacks. We’ll run cables from the CV Sources’ Gate down to each Envelope’s Gate In jacks. We’ll patch our Oscillator’s Sawtooth jacks to the first two inputs of the Mixer module. The Mixer’s Master Output will go to the Filter’s Audio In. 3

The Filter’s Low-pass Output (bottomleft) goes to the Amplifier’s Input. The Amplifier’s ‘+’ Output goes to the Reverb’s L(M) Input, and the Reverb’s L Output to the Delay’s Input. The Delay’s ‘+’ Output goes to the Main Outs 1L(M) jack. Route the left Envelope’s Positive jack (bottomright) to the Filter’s Freq Mod 1, and the right Envelope’s Positive Output to the Amplifier’s CV Amount. 4

Set both Reverb and Delay MIX fully dry for now. Patch the LFO’s top Output to each Oscillator’s Freq Mod jack. Give the Freq Mod knobs a tiny push in either direction. Turn the Mixer’s first two channels down a bit. Set one Osc’s Frequency to -0.03 and the other to 0.03. Go to the Filter. Turn the Cutoff down to around 30Hz and Resonance to 16%. 5

Turn the FIlter’s Freq Mod 1 knob up nearly full. In the left Envelope, set the Attack to around 60ms, and the Release to over 7000ms. In the right envelope, the Attack should be about 65ms, the Decay fully up and the Release set to around 2400ms. It’s all a bit high pitched, so set each Oscillator’s Range to 32’. 6

Now adjust the Spring Reverb and Delay’s Dry/Wet Mix levels to taste. We’ll do a bit of fine-tuning to the various parameters. The patch is nicely responsive to the length of time notes are held, so experiment with performance style. This is obviously a simplified version of Jarre’s classic ARP 2600 patch. You can elaborate further upon it as you see fit.