Donna Summer Arpeggio help

[crufty]

isn't it just a square wave?

my abomination via google midi. barf!

[st00p]

hey that would do just fine lol

how did you do it?

[crufty]

1) Google "donna summer love midi"
2) Logic -> import midi
3) Replace bass line with ES-P, 100% square, zero attack (A), and then fiddle with drive, resonance, cutoff pwm etc to get the sound you want. Then apply whatever fx you need.

[lain2097]

You gonna do some karaoke?

[st00p]

So i guess, you could just play that riff ( E G A A) live, with some sample delay to give the arp sound?

would anything work better than the sample delay - i'm getting close now

[alchey]

I've always played it on guitar with an octavizer pedal, short delay and wah to give it that filtered sound.

[OurDarkness]

I can't find that awesome photo where Giorgio Moroder is messing with a huge modular Moog and is looking at Donna Summer who is behind a mic (she is supposed to sing, right?) and she looks desperate... LOL, damn, where do I have this pic...

[chrisso]

Yeah.... two pedantic points I'm afraid.
It's a sequence played using an analogue sequencer (not an arpeggio), and it was created on a Moog modular.

[rachel]

It was also recorded on a tape loop at half speed and then played back at normal speed.


rachel

[shaft9000]

it sounds like it's 16th notes, but it's actually an 8th note line+delay line.
pan the dry bassline hard left, pan the delay hard right, and Viola!
just playing 16ths off a MIDI file sounds cluttered....it needs the delay line to sound smooth&sexy - so the EGs aren't 'tripping' over each other trying to fire off 16ths.

[Reptil]

[galisteo]

Originally Posted by Reptil

wicked sound from the modular there