awesomeness = brain melt - possibly...
it's played on the downbeat - throughout the section from about 1min 9secs onwards
filter sounds big and fat - so I am guessing an American synth - perhaps an Oberheim?
probably just a sample been fired off by someone these days I guess
I am wondering if it was late 70s/early 80s Rush I heard it on - might just have to dust off those albums and give them another play...