The beloved Steely Dan 'Hey Nineteen' synth harmonica sound

Discussion in 'how to make "that" sound' started by MokuseiFolf13, Nov 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM.

  1. MokuseiFolf13

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    Greetings, fellow musicians! Doing some of my research, I've sorta found out, through both online forums, as well as said online forums referencing publications of Steely Dan's "Gaucho", that the synth harmonica sound was produced by a Prophet-5. Having accepted that as fact, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help out on what preset or modification of a preset best, or at least closely resembles the sound like in the song. I primarily use Arturia's Prophet-5 V for my Prophet-5 needs, however, seeing as it has relatively the same parameters as the real deal, as well as other emulations of the P5— I wouldn't mind your presets borrowed from other plugin emulations, so long as I can manually transcribe them by hand!

    Below I shall provide the song. Though, I'm sure you've heard this plenty of times. Hella catchy song!

    Here's the song segment:


    Any and all help on this endeavor is greatly appreciated, and I look forward to any of your commentary!
     
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