What sound is this arpeggio? (Roberta Flack)

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  1. Nini

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    Hi everyone!

    I'm trying to find the exact preset of this arpeggio? Seems like a synth bell or something like that.
    Name of keyboard will be helpful too.
    Can someone help me please? :thanks:

    Roberta Flack - This Side Of Forever (Sudden Impact)
     
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  3. clone

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    i thought this song might be too early to be a roland dx-7 but it was not. They are both from 1983. it is the most famous 80's synth for bells patches. if it was dx-7 in 1983, it is probably one of the stock presets and maybe modified; because it was the same year as it's release. there are a billion third party sounds now, but not then.


     
  4. Nini

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    i tried, every patches from dx-7 but it's so far away from that sound
     
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    Try early yamaha stuff like CS models
     
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    Of course the DX7 is Yamaha... but i've no guess myself.
     
  7. Nini

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    i tried
    CS-80
    CZ-V
    DX-7
    JUNO 6
    JUP 8
    PROPHET 5/VS

    what am i missing? it drives me crazy
    sometimes i find something similar but even touching parameters ecc.. i can not get that og sound
     
  8. Sylenth.Will.Fall

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    I would have guessed at the Roland D-50 Fantasia Preset, except for the fact the D-50 wasn't introduced until 4 years later. Pity though because that is one of my all time favourite presets.
     
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    pretty sure it's a DX-7 and ROM bank 1b, Patch 7 'Celeste', with some FX of course.
     
  10. Nini

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    it's so close, here's the audio samples but i think the bells sound it's kinda more crunchy and less release
     

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    i tried your preset too, but i don't think it's that sound
    here audio sample:
     

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    Use eq to make it thinner, that's what it sounds to me
     
  13. Quantised Noise

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    Yeah, Arturia's DX7 sounds like ass.

    Plus it's drenched in LX 224 verb
     
  14. Nini

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    almost there, i used "Space Harp" preset for the lead(?) notes and "Fantasia" in background
    but i don't know how to make lead sound more gently like the og sound, it's like more light and soft than mine

    here the result:
     

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