Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)

Behringer DeepMind 12

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping medium · not numerically scored

Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.

27 saved controls · — means no saved value

Demo this preset

Play a short exercise to hear the attack, movement and release. These are original audition patterns, not transcriptions of the reference song.

Behringer DeepMind 12 · Primary · Single notes · 4/4

Listen for clear attacks, consistent note levels and the release at each gap.

How to play it

Import the MIDI into your DAW, route its track to the synth showing this preset, and loop the selected bars. Tempo and key are exercise settings. C4 means MIDI note 60; some DAWs label octaves differently. The MIDI sends notes on channel 1 and contains no patch change. It does not load the preset or trigger hardware from this page.

Why this preset? Sources, design & revisions

Follow the decisions from reference to recipe. Excerpts below link to the full write-up. A recording link confirms identity, not the original gear or settings.

01
The reference
Design inference · unsourced
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02
The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
04
Listen → improve → revise
Awaiting listening review
These settings have not been marked auditioned. Use Demo this preset, compare the attack, low end and movement, then use Improve to record what you hear. A saved revision is not proof of a listening test.

Research & revision history · 3 saved events

Updates

The saved research and rendition history.

Re-researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:54 UTC
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Research: unsourced (recall) → unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Rendition added · Behringer DeepMind 12
18 Sept 2026 · 05:50 UTC
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Researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:45 UTC
First research write-up · sound-research@v1.
Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.

Full saved write-up

Research confidence: 0/100 · unsourced (recall). This legacy write-up has not been re-researched.

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.

Class: mono — one note at a time
Category: Lead
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-lead
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature lead"

Identity

What it is. The melodic hook voice of Kavinsky's instrumental tracks: a monophonic, slightly detuned sawtooth lead that sings phrases in the C4–C6 register above the eighth-note bass and the chord pad. It is confident and bright but not thin, with slides between notes and a delay tail that fills the gaps.

Documented traits: monophonic legato phrasing with audible pitch slides, bright saw-family tone, delay-soaked, carries the tune when there is no vocal. On Nightcall the melodic 'lead' is actually a vocoded voice (co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo); this pack's lead is the synth lead idiom heard on the instrumental tracks, not a vocoder.

Inferred (labelled): the waveform mix, filter, envelope and glide values in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction, not a claim about any original patch. Palette note: cover colours are recalled approximations.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

The Sound

Reconstruction of the idiom. Items marked documented are audible on the records; everything else is inferred and labelled as such.

Oscillators — documented: saw-family, slightly thick. Inferred: osc 1 sawtooth; osc 2 sawtooth detuned +7 cents (or a square one octave down at ≈30 % for body on two-oscillator synths); a small sub-oscillator level where available.
Filter — documented: bright but rounded. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass, cutoff ≈ 2.5–4 kHz, resonance 15–25 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 70 %, filter-envelope amount +40 %.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 5 ms, decay 300 ms, sustain 50 %, release 250 ms — a soft pluck into a sustained tone.
Amplifier envelope — inferred: attack 5–10 ms, decay 200 ms, sustain 90 %, release 250 ms.
Glide — documented: slides between notes. Inferred: 60–120 ms portamento, legato-only where the synth offers it; envelope retrigger off on legato.
LFO / vibrato — inferred: triangle 5.5–6 Hz to pitch, depth 0 at rest and up to ±30 cents under the modwheel.
Drive — inferred: a light overdrive or saturation on the synth or downstream.
Pitch-bend — range ±2 semitones for scoops into notes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975); releases on Record Makers run from Teddy Boy (2006) and 1986 (2007) through Nightcall (2010, co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixed by SebastiAn), OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022). The album title and the 1986 Testarossa mythology point directly at Sega's OutRun (1986) arcade game and its Yamaha FM leads.

The synth-lead idiom itself descends from the mid-1980s: Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F (1984), Jan Hammer's Miami Vice themes (1984–89), Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis — Minimoog, Jupiter-8 and SH-101 style saw leads.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): no confirmed instrument list exists for Kavinsky's leads; an analog monosynth or a software emulation is assumed, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Testarossa Autodrive (2007, 1986 EP) and Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn remix, 2007).
Kavinsky — ProtoVision, Rampage, Roadgame, Odd Look — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Plasma — Reborn (2022).
Reference points for the idiom: Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (1984); Jan Hammer — Miami Vice Theme (1984).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

control	gesture	effect
velocity	harder for the hook notes	opens the filter and adds edge (inferred mapping)
modwheel	raise on long notes, not on runs	5.5–6 Hz vibrato up to ±30 cents
pitch-bend	scoop up a tone into the first note of a phrase	the classic 80s lead entry
glide / legato	overlap notes for slides, detach for clean steps	60–120 ms portamento only on legato
aftertouch	press on sustained notes	vibrato or slight cutoff lift (inferred)
octave	play the hook up an octave on the last repeat	lift into the outro

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo delay: dotted-eighth or quarter-note, 25–35 % feedback, filtered repeats.
Medium plate reverb, 1.5–2.5 s.
Tape or tube saturation for edge.
Subtle chorus or doubler for width (keep the centre mono).
High-shelf lift around 6–8 kHz and a high-pass at 200 Hz.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

Auto-generated from the create-preset fan-out mapping outcomes; regenerated each run.

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)" — confidence medium — 27 control(s) — Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)" — confidence high — 49 control(s) — Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Testarossa Lead (MS-20)" — confidence medium — 23 control(s) — Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Testarossa Lead (Neutron)" — confidence medium — 31 control(s) — Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Testarossa Lead (Prologue)" — confidence high — 40 control(s) — The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 41 control(s) — No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

Lore

ARP / SEQ

RATE

—

GATE TIME

—

ON/OFF

OFF

TAP/HOLD

—

EDIT

—

OCTAVE

—

LFO 1

RATE

5.8 Hz

DELAY TIME

0 ms

EDIT

—

LFO 2

RATE

—

DELAY TIME

—

EDIT

—

OSC 1

PITCH MOD

0%

PWM

—

SAW

ON

SQR

OFF

OSC 2

PITCH MOD

—

TONE MOD

0%

PITCH

-1 oct

LEVEL

30%

SYNC

OFF

EDIT

—

NOISE

NOISE LEVEL

0%

POLY

CHORD

—

POLY CHORD

—

UNISON DETUNE

7 cents

EDIT

—

VCF

FREQ

70%

RES

20%

ENV

40%

LFO

0%

KYBD

70%

2 POLE

OFF

EDIT

—

INVERT

—

VCA

LEVEL

85%

EDIT

—

HPF

FREQ

20%

BOOST

—

ENVELOPES

A

8 ms

D

200 ms

S

90%

R

250 ms

VCA

ON

VCF

—

MOD

—

CURVES

—

MASTER

OCT ▼

—

VOLUME

—

PORTAMENTO

25%

OCT ▲

—

PERFORMANCE

PITCH

—

MOD

0%

FX & outboard

Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Uses this synth’s default chain.

Default route & patching

Committed wiring: DeepMind 12 → Pedal Chain 3 → Black Lion Audio Auteur → AR22 inputs 11,12

Saved synth profile: Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Recipe chain: Pedal Chain 3 · The saved passive DI is a ProD2. Black Lion Audio Auteur is a separate mic preamp.

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✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)

Arturia MatrixBrute

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping high · not numerically scored

Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).

49 saved controls · — means no saved value

Demo this preset

Play a short exercise to hear the attack, movement and release. These are original audition patterns, not transcriptions of the reference song.

Arturia MatrixBrute · Primary · Single notes · 4/4

Listen for clear attacks, consistent note levels and the release at each gap.

How to play it

Import the MIDI into your DAW, route its track to the synth showing this preset, and loop the selected bars. Tempo and key are exercise settings. C4 means MIDI note 60; some DAWs label octaves differently. The MIDI sends notes on channel 1 and contains no patch change. It does not load the preset or trigger hardware from this page.

Why this preset? Sources, design & revisions

Follow the decisions from reference to recipe. Excerpts below link to the full write-up. A recording link confirms identity, not the original gear or settings.

01
The reference
Design inference · unsourced
This saved write-up has no retrieved source record. Read the original notes below; its claims remain unverified.
02
The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
04
Listen → improve → revise
Awaiting listening review
These settings have not been marked auditioned. Use Demo this preset, compare the attack, low end and movement, then use Improve to record what you hear. A saved revision is not proof of a listening test.

Research & revision history · 3 saved events

Updates

The saved research and rendition history.

Re-researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:54 UTC
No write-up sections changed.
Research: unsourced (recall) → unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Rendition added · Arturia MatrixBrute
18 Sept 2026 · 05:50 UTC
Revision 1 · source version: primary
Request this revision
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Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:45 UTC
First research write-up · sound-research@v1.
Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.

Full saved write-up

Research confidence: 0/100 · unsourced (recall). This legacy write-up has not been re-researched.

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.

Class: mono — one note at a time
Category: Lead
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-lead
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature lead"

Identity

What it is. The melodic hook voice of Kavinsky's instrumental tracks: a monophonic, slightly detuned sawtooth lead that sings phrases in the C4–C6 register above the eighth-note bass and the chord pad. It is confident and bright but not thin, with slides between notes and a delay tail that fills the gaps.

Documented traits: monophonic legato phrasing with audible pitch slides, bright saw-family tone, delay-soaked, carries the tune when there is no vocal. On Nightcall the melodic 'lead' is actually a vocoded voice (co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo); this pack's lead is the synth lead idiom heard on the instrumental tracks, not a vocoder.

Inferred (labelled): the waveform mix, filter, envelope and glide values in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction, not a claim about any original patch. Palette note: cover colours are recalled approximations.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

The Sound

Reconstruction of the idiom. Items marked documented are audible on the records; everything else is inferred and labelled as such.

Oscillators — documented: saw-family, slightly thick. Inferred: osc 1 sawtooth; osc 2 sawtooth detuned +7 cents (or a square one octave down at ≈30 % for body on two-oscillator synths); a small sub-oscillator level where available.
Filter — documented: bright but rounded. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass, cutoff ≈ 2.5–4 kHz, resonance 15–25 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 70 %, filter-envelope amount +40 %.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 5 ms, decay 300 ms, sustain 50 %, release 250 ms — a soft pluck into a sustained tone.
Amplifier envelope — inferred: attack 5–10 ms, decay 200 ms, sustain 90 %, release 250 ms.
Glide — documented: slides between notes. Inferred: 60–120 ms portamento, legato-only where the synth offers it; envelope retrigger off on legato.
LFO / vibrato — inferred: triangle 5.5–6 Hz to pitch, depth 0 at rest and up to ±30 cents under the modwheel.
Drive — inferred: a light overdrive or saturation on the synth or downstream.
Pitch-bend — range ±2 semitones for scoops into notes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975); releases on Record Makers run from Teddy Boy (2006) and 1986 (2007) through Nightcall (2010, co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixed by SebastiAn), OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022). The album title and the 1986 Testarossa mythology point directly at Sega's OutRun (1986) arcade game and its Yamaha FM leads.

The synth-lead idiom itself descends from the mid-1980s: Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F (1984), Jan Hammer's Miami Vice themes (1984–89), Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis — Minimoog, Jupiter-8 and SH-101 style saw leads.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): no confirmed instrument list exists for Kavinsky's leads; an analog monosynth or a software emulation is assumed, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Testarossa Autodrive (2007, 1986 EP) and Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn remix, 2007).
Kavinsky — ProtoVision, Rampage, Roadgame, Odd Look — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Plasma — Reborn (2022).
Reference points for the idiom: Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (1984); Jan Hammer — Miami Vice Theme (1984).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

control	gesture	effect
velocity	harder for the hook notes	opens the filter and adds edge (inferred mapping)
modwheel	raise on long notes, not on runs	5.5–6 Hz vibrato up to ±30 cents
pitch-bend	scoop up a tone into the first note of a phrase	the classic 80s lead entry
glide / legato	overlap notes for slides, detach for clean steps	60–120 ms portamento only on legato
aftertouch	press on sustained notes	vibrato or slight cutoff lift (inferred)
octave	play the hook up an octave on the last repeat	lift into the outro

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo delay: dotted-eighth or quarter-note, 25–35 % feedback, filtered repeats.
Medium plate reverb, 1.5–2.5 s.
Tape or tube saturation for edge.
Subtle chorus or doubler for width (keep the centre mono).
High-shelf lift around 6–8 kHz and a high-pass at 200 Hz.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

Auto-generated from the create-preset fan-out mapping outcomes; regenerated each run.

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)" — confidence medium — 27 control(s) — Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)" — confidence high — 49 control(s) — Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Testarossa Lead (MS-20)" — confidence medium — 23 control(s) — Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Testarossa Lead (Neutron)" — confidence medium — 31 control(s) — Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Testarossa Lead (Prologue)" — confidence high — 40 control(s) — The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 41 control(s) — No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

Lore

VCO 1

OCTAVE

8'

COARSE

—

FINE

0 cents

SAW

90%

ULTRASAW

10%

SQUARE

0%

PULSE WIDTH

—

TRIANGLE

—

METALIZER

—

SUB

20%

VCO 2

OCTAVE

8'

COARSE

—

FINE

+7 cents

SAW

85%

ULTRASAW

0%

SQUARE

0%

PULSE WIDTH

—

TRIANGLE

—

METALIZER

—

SYNC

OFF

VCO 3

OCTAVE

—

COARSE

—

WAVE

—

KBD TRACK

—

LFO DIV

—

LEVEL

0%

AUDIO MOD

VCO1 > VCO2

—

VCO3 > VCO1

—

VCO3 > VCO2

—

NOISE > VCF1

—

MIXER

VCO 1

90%

VCO 2

85%

VCO 3

0%

NOISE

0%

EXT IN

—

NOISE

COLOR

—

VCF 1 · STEINER

CUTOFF

95%

RESONANCE

0%

BRUTE FACTOR

—

MODE

lowpass

VCF 2 · LADDER

CUTOFF

70%

RESONANCE

20%

BRUTE FACTOR

12%

MODE

lowpass

12/24 dB

ON

KEY TRACK

ON

FILTER MASTER

MASTER CUTOFF

—

ROUTING

series

ENV 1 · FILTER

ATTACK

5 ms

DECAY

300 ms

SUSTAIN

50%

RELEASE

250 ms

VELO/VCF

25%

CURVES

—

ENV 2 · AMP

ATTACK

8 ms

DECAY

200 ms

SUSTAIN

90%

RELEASE

250 ms

VELO/VCA

15%

CURVES

—

ENV 3 · AUX

DELAY

—

ATTACK

—

DECAY

—

SUSTAIN

—

RELEASE

—

AMOUNT

—

CURVES

—

LFO 1

WAVE

triangle

RATE

5.8 Hz

PHASE

—

SYNC

free

AMOUNT

0%

LFO 2

WAVE

—

RATE

—

PHASE

—

SYNC

—

AMOUNT

—

MOD MATRIX

AMOUNT

—

SELECT

—

MACRO

M1

—

M2

—

M3

—

M4

—

FX

MODE

stereo delay

TIME

375 ms

FEEDBACK

30%

MIX

25%

ON / OFF

ON

SEQ / ARP

MODE

off

TEMPO

—

RATE

—

PLAY / STOP

—

RECORD

—

HOLD

—

TAP

—

MASTER

MASTER VOLUME

—

GLIDE

20%

PERFORMANCE

PITCH

—

MOD

0%

FX & outboard

Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Repatch required.

Default route & patching

Committed wiring: MatrixBrute → Pedal Chain 2 → AR22 inputs 1,2

Saved synth profile: Chain C: MatrixBrute — Versatile Lead & Bass

Recipe chain: Pedal Chain 3 · The saved passive DI is a ProD2. Black Lion Audio Auteur is a separate mic preamp.

Pedal Chain 2: existing path; effective level unresolved at this connection.
Pedal Chain 2: existing path; effective level unresolved at this connection.

Review the route on Patchbay ↗

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Testarossa Lead (MS-20)

Korg MS-20 Mini

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping medium · not numerically scored

Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.

23 saved controls · — means no saved value

Demo this preset

Play a short exercise to hear the attack, movement and release. These are original audition patterns, not transcriptions of the reference song.

Korg MS-20 Mini · Primary · Single notes · 4/4

Listen for clear attacks, consistent note levels and the release at each gap.

How to play it

Import the MIDI into your DAW, route its track to the synth showing this preset, and loop the selected bars. Tempo and key are exercise settings. C4 means MIDI note 60; some DAWs label octaves differently. The MIDI sends notes on channel 1 and contains no patch change. It does not load the preset or trigger hardware from this page.

Why this preset? Sources, design & revisions

Follow the decisions from reference to recipe. Excerpts below link to the full write-up. A recording link confirms identity, not the original gear or settings.

01
The reference
Design inference · unsourced
This saved write-up has no retrieved source record. Read the original notes below; its claims remain unverified.
02
The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
04
Listen → improve → revise
Awaiting listening review
These settings have not been marked auditioned. Use Demo this preset, compare the attack, low end and movement, then use Improve to record what you hear. A saved revision is not proof of a listening test.

Research & revision history · 3 saved events

Updates

The saved research and rendition history.

Re-researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:54 UTC
No write-up sections changed.
Research: unsourced (recall) → unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Rendition added · Korg MS-20 Mini
18 Sept 2026 · 05:51 UTC
Revision 1 · source version: primary
Request this revision
Copy into your connected Codex or Claude conversation. Review the differences and give a restore reason before saving.
First saved rendition. Write-up unchanged.
Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:45 UTC
First research write-up · sound-research@v1.
Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.

Full saved write-up

Research confidence: 0/100 · unsourced (recall). This legacy write-up has not been re-researched.

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.

Class: mono — one note at a time
Category: Lead
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-lead
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature lead"

Identity

What it is. The melodic hook voice of Kavinsky's instrumental tracks: a monophonic, slightly detuned sawtooth lead that sings phrases in the C4–C6 register above the eighth-note bass and the chord pad. It is confident and bright but not thin, with slides between notes and a delay tail that fills the gaps.

Documented traits: monophonic legato phrasing with audible pitch slides, bright saw-family tone, delay-soaked, carries the tune when there is no vocal. On Nightcall the melodic 'lead' is actually a vocoded voice (co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo); this pack's lead is the synth lead idiom heard on the instrumental tracks, not a vocoder.

Inferred (labelled): the waveform mix, filter, envelope and glide values in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction, not a claim about any original patch. Palette note: cover colours are recalled approximations.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

The Sound

Reconstruction of the idiom. Items marked documented are audible on the records; everything else is inferred and labelled as such.

Oscillators — documented: saw-family, slightly thick. Inferred: osc 1 sawtooth; osc 2 sawtooth detuned +7 cents (or a square one octave down at ≈30 % for body on two-oscillator synths); a small sub-oscillator level where available.
Filter — documented: bright but rounded. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass, cutoff ≈ 2.5–4 kHz, resonance 15–25 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 70 %, filter-envelope amount +40 %.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 5 ms, decay 300 ms, sustain 50 %, release 250 ms — a soft pluck into a sustained tone.
Amplifier envelope — inferred: attack 5–10 ms, decay 200 ms, sustain 90 %, release 250 ms.
Glide — documented: slides between notes. Inferred: 60–120 ms portamento, legato-only where the synth offers it; envelope retrigger off on legato.
LFO / vibrato — inferred: triangle 5.5–6 Hz to pitch, depth 0 at rest and up to ±30 cents under the modwheel.
Drive — inferred: a light overdrive or saturation on the synth or downstream.
Pitch-bend — range ±2 semitones for scoops into notes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975); releases on Record Makers run from Teddy Boy (2006) and 1986 (2007) through Nightcall (2010, co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixed by SebastiAn), OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022). The album title and the 1986 Testarossa mythology point directly at Sega's OutRun (1986) arcade game and its Yamaha FM leads.

The synth-lead idiom itself descends from the mid-1980s: Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F (1984), Jan Hammer's Miami Vice themes (1984–89), Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis — Minimoog, Jupiter-8 and SH-101 style saw leads.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): no confirmed instrument list exists for Kavinsky's leads; an analog monosynth or a software emulation is assumed, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Testarossa Autodrive (2007, 1986 EP) and Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn remix, 2007).
Kavinsky — ProtoVision, Rampage, Roadgame, Odd Look — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Plasma — Reborn (2022).
Reference points for the idiom: Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (1984); Jan Hammer — Miami Vice Theme (1984).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

control	gesture	effect
velocity	harder for the hook notes	opens the filter and adds edge (inferred mapping)
modwheel	raise on long notes, not on runs	5.5–6 Hz vibrato up to ±30 cents
pitch-bend	scoop up a tone into the first note of a phrase	the classic 80s lead entry
glide / legato	overlap notes for slides, detach for clean steps	60–120 ms portamento only on legato
aftertouch	press on sustained notes	vibrato or slight cutoff lift (inferred)
octave	play the hook up an octave on the last repeat	lift into the outro

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo delay: dotted-eighth or quarter-note, 25–35 % feedback, filtered repeats.
Medium plate reverb, 1.5–2.5 s.
Tape or tube saturation for edge.
Subtle chorus or doubler for width (keep the centre mono).
High-shelf lift around 6–8 kHz and a high-pass at 200 Hz.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

Auto-generated from the create-preset fan-out mapping outcomes; regenerated each run.

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)" — confidence medium — 27 control(s) — Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)" — confidence high — 49 control(s) — Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Testarossa Lead (MS-20)" — confidence medium — 23 control(s) — Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Testarossa Lead (Neutron)" — confidence medium — 31 control(s) — Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Testarossa Lead (Prologue)" — confidence high — 40 control(s) — The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 41 control(s) — No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

Lore

VCO 1

WAVE FORM

sawtooth

PW

—

SCALE

8'

VCO 2

WAVE FORM

sawtooth

PITCH

+7 cents

SCALE

8'

VCO MIXER

VCO 1 LEVEL

90%

VCO 2 LEVEL

80%

VC HPF

CUTOFF FREQUENCY

15%

PEAK

0%

VC LPF

CUTOFF FREQUENCY

65%

PEAK

25%

MODULATION GENERATOR

WAVE FORM

50%

FREQUENCY

45%

ENVELOPE GENERATOR 1

DELAY TIME

—

ATTACK TIME

—

RELEASE TIME

—

ENVELOPE GENERATOR 2

HOLD TIME

0 ms

ATTACK TIME

5 ms

DECAY TIME

300 ms

SUSTAIN LEVEL

60%

RELEASE TIME

250 ms

FREQUENCY MODULATION

MG/T.EXT

8%

EG1/EXT

0%

HPF CUTOFF MOD

MG/T.EXT

—

EG2/EXT

—

LPF CUTOFF MOD

MG/T.EXT

0%

EG2/EXT

40%

EXTERNAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR

SIGNAL LEVEL

—

LOW CUT FREQ

—

HIGH CUT FREQ

—

CV ADJUST

—

MASTER

PORTAMENTO TIME

80 ms

MASTER TUNE

—

PATCH BAY

Patch bay

—

FX & outboard

Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Repatch required.

Default route & patching

Committed wiring: Korg MS-20 → Pedal Chain 1 → AR22 inputs 3

Saved synth profile: Chain D: MS-20 Mini — Raw & Aggressive

Recipe chain: Pedal Chain 3 · The saved passive DI is a ProD2. Black Lion Audio Auteur is a separate mic preamp.

Pedal Chain 1: existing path; effective level unresolved at this connection.

Review the route on Patchbay ↗

✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Testarossa Lead (Neutron)

Behringer Neutron

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping medium · not numerically scored

Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.

31 saved controls · — means no saved value

Demo this preset

Play a short exercise to hear the attack, movement and release. These are original audition patterns, not transcriptions of the reference song.

Behringer Neutron · Primary · Single notes · 4/4

Listen for clear attacks, consistent note levels and the release at each gap.

How to play it

Import the MIDI into your DAW, route its track to the synth showing this preset, and loop the selected bars. Tempo and key are exercise settings. C4 means MIDI note 60; some DAWs label octaves differently. The MIDI sends notes on channel 1 and contains no patch change. It does not load the preset or trigger hardware from this page.

Why this preset? Sources, design & revisions

Follow the decisions from reference to recipe. Excerpts below link to the full write-up. A recording link confirms identity, not the original gear or settings.

01
The reference
Design inference · unsourced
This saved write-up has no retrieved source record. Read the original notes below; its claims remain unverified.
02
The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
04
Listen → improve → revise
Awaiting listening review
These settings have not been marked auditioned. Use Demo this preset, compare the attack, low end and movement, then use Improve to record what you hear. A saved revision is not proof of a listening test.

Research & revision history · 3 saved events

Updates

The saved research and rendition history.

Re-researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:54 UTC
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Research: unsourced (recall) → unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Rendition added · Behringer Neutron
18 Sept 2026 · 05:51 UTC
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Request this revision
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Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:45 UTC
First research write-up · sound-research@v1.
Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.

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Research confidence: 0/100 · unsourced (recall). This legacy write-up has not been re-researched.

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.

Class: mono — one note at a time
Category: Lead
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-lead
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature lead"

Identity

What it is. The melodic hook voice of Kavinsky's instrumental tracks: a monophonic, slightly detuned sawtooth lead that sings phrases in the C4–C6 register above the eighth-note bass and the chord pad. It is confident and bright but not thin, with slides between notes and a delay tail that fills the gaps.

Documented traits: monophonic legato phrasing with audible pitch slides, bright saw-family tone, delay-soaked, carries the tune when there is no vocal. On Nightcall the melodic 'lead' is actually a vocoded voice (co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo); this pack's lead is the synth lead idiom heard on the instrumental tracks, not a vocoder.

Inferred (labelled): the waveform mix, filter, envelope and glide values in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction, not a claim about any original patch. Palette note: cover colours are recalled approximations.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

The Sound

Reconstruction of the idiom. Items marked documented are audible on the records; everything else is inferred and labelled as such.

Oscillators — documented: saw-family, slightly thick. Inferred: osc 1 sawtooth; osc 2 sawtooth detuned +7 cents (or a square one octave down at ≈30 % for body on two-oscillator synths); a small sub-oscillator level where available.
Filter — documented: bright but rounded. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass, cutoff ≈ 2.5–4 kHz, resonance 15–25 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 70 %, filter-envelope amount +40 %.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 5 ms, decay 300 ms, sustain 50 %, release 250 ms — a soft pluck into a sustained tone.
Amplifier envelope — inferred: attack 5–10 ms, decay 200 ms, sustain 90 %, release 250 ms.
Glide — documented: slides between notes. Inferred: 60–120 ms portamento, legato-only where the synth offers it; envelope retrigger off on legato.
LFO / vibrato — inferred: triangle 5.5–6 Hz to pitch, depth 0 at rest and up to ±30 cents under the modwheel.
Drive — inferred: a light overdrive or saturation on the synth or downstream.
Pitch-bend — range ±2 semitones for scoops into notes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975); releases on Record Makers run from Teddy Boy (2006) and 1986 (2007) through Nightcall (2010, co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixed by SebastiAn), OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022). The album title and the 1986 Testarossa mythology point directly at Sega's OutRun (1986) arcade game and its Yamaha FM leads.

The synth-lead idiom itself descends from the mid-1980s: Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F (1984), Jan Hammer's Miami Vice themes (1984–89), Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis — Minimoog, Jupiter-8 and SH-101 style saw leads.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): no confirmed instrument list exists for Kavinsky's leads; an analog monosynth or a software emulation is assumed, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Testarossa Autodrive (2007, 1986 EP) and Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn remix, 2007).
Kavinsky — ProtoVision, Rampage, Roadgame, Odd Look — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Plasma — Reborn (2022).
Reference points for the idiom: Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (1984); Jan Hammer — Miami Vice Theme (1984).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

control	gesture	effect
velocity	harder for the hook notes	opens the filter and adds edge (inferred mapping)
modwheel	raise on long notes, not on runs	5.5–6 Hz vibrato up to ±30 cents
pitch-bend	scoop up a tone into the first note of a phrase	the classic 80s lead entry
glide / legato	overlap notes for slides, detach for clean steps	60–120 ms portamento only on legato
aftertouch	press on sustained notes	vibrato or slight cutoff lift (inferred)
octave	play the hook up an octave on the last repeat	lift into the outro

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo delay: dotted-eighth or quarter-note, 25–35 % feedback, filtered repeats.
Medium plate reverb, 1.5–2.5 s.
Tape or tube saturation for edge.
Subtle chorus or doubler for width (keep the centre mono).
High-shelf lift around 6–8 kHz and a high-pass at 200 Hz.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

Auto-generated from the create-preset fan-out mapping outcomes; regenerated each run.

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)" — confidence medium — 27 control(s) — Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)" — confidence high — 49 control(s) — Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Testarossa Lead (MS-20)" — confidence medium — 23 control(s) — Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Testarossa Lead (Neutron)" — confidence medium — 31 control(s) — Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Testarossa Lead (Prologue)" — confidence high — 40 control(s) — The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 41 control(s) — No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

Lore

OSCILLATORS

TUNE

0 cents

OSC MIX

50%

TUNE

+7 cents

SHAPE

50%

SHAPE

50%

RANGE

—

RANGE

—

OSC SYNC

OFF

PARAPHONIC

OFF

WIDTH

—

WIDTH

—

VCF

FREQ

68%

MODE

—

RESO

20%

KEY TRK

ON

MOD DEPTH

0%

ENV DEPTH

40%

LFO

KEY SYNC

OFF

RATE

5.8 Hz

SHAPE

25%

DELAY

TIME

375 ms

REPEATS

30%

MIX

25%

OVERDRIVE

DRIVE

20%

TONE

50%

LEVEL

60%

OUTPUT

VOLUME

75%

NOISE

—

VCA

VCA BIAS

—

ENVELOPE 1

A

5 ms

D

300 ms

S

50%

R

250 ms

ENVELOPE 2

A

8 ms

D

200 ms

S

90%

R

250 ms

SAMPLE & HOLD

RATE

—

GLIDE

—

SLEW RATE LIMITER

SLEW

—

PORTA TIME

90 ms

ATTENUATORS

1

—

2

—

PATCH BAY

Patch bay

—

FX & outboard

Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Repatch required.

Default route & patching

Committed wiring: No normalled route is recorded for this synth.

Saved synth profile: None assigned.

Recipe chain: Pedal Chain 3 · The saved passive DI is a ProD2. Black Lion Audio Auteur is a separate mic preamp.

Review the route on Patchbay ↗

✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Testarossa Lead (Prologue)

Korg Prologue 8

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping high · not numerically scored

The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.

40 saved controls · — means no saved value

Demo this preset

Play a short exercise to hear the attack, movement and release. These are original audition patterns, not transcriptions of the reference song.

Korg Prologue 8 · Primary · Single notes · 4/4

Listen for clear attacks, consistent note levels and the release at each gap.

How to play it

Import the MIDI into your DAW, route its track to the synth showing this preset, and loop the selected bars. Tempo and key are exercise settings. C4 means MIDI note 60; some DAWs label octaves differently. The MIDI sends notes on channel 1 and contains no patch change. It does not load the preset or trigger hardware from this page.

Why this preset? Sources, design & revisions

Follow the decisions from reference to recipe. Excerpts below link to the full write-up. A recording link confirms identity, not the original gear or settings.

01
The reference
Design inference · unsourced
This saved write-up has no retrieved source record. Read the original notes below; its claims remain unverified.
02
The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
04
Listen → improve → revise
Awaiting listening review
These settings have not been marked auditioned. Use Demo this preset, compare the attack, low end and movement, then use Improve to record what you hear. A saved revision is not proof of a listening test.

Research & revision history · 3 saved events

Updates

The saved research and rendition history.

Re-researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:54 UTC
No write-up sections changed.
Research: unsourced (recall) → unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Rendition added · Korg Prologue 8
18 Sept 2026 · 05:51 UTC
Revision 1 · source version: primary
Request this revision
Copy into your connected Codex or Claude conversation. Review the differences and give a restore reason before saving.
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Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.
Researched
18 Sept 2026 · 05:45 UTC
First research write-up · sound-research@v1.
Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature lead sounds. Create one lead inspired by the artist; distinguish documented traits from inferred settings. Create useful artist-inspired sounds; clearly label inferred settings and avoid claiming exact original patches.

Full saved write-up

Research confidence: 0/100 · unsourced (recall). This legacy write-up has not been re-researched.

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.

Class: mono — one note at a time
Category: Lead
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-lead
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature lead"

Identity

What it is. The melodic hook voice of Kavinsky's instrumental tracks: a monophonic, slightly detuned sawtooth lead that sings phrases in the C4–C6 register above the eighth-note bass and the chord pad. It is confident and bright but not thin, with slides between notes and a delay tail that fills the gaps.

Documented traits: monophonic legato phrasing with audible pitch slides, bright saw-family tone, delay-soaked, carries the tune when there is no vocal. On Nightcall the melodic 'lead' is actually a vocoded voice (co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo); this pack's lead is the synth lead idiom heard on the instrumental tracks, not a vocoder.

Inferred (labelled): the waveform mix, filter, envelope and glide values in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction, not a claim about any original patch. Palette note: cover colours are recalled approximations.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

The Sound

Reconstruction of the idiom. Items marked documented are audible on the records; everything else is inferred and labelled as such.

Oscillators — documented: saw-family, slightly thick. Inferred: osc 1 sawtooth; osc 2 sawtooth detuned +7 cents (or a square one octave down at ≈30 % for body on two-oscillator synths); a small sub-oscillator level where available.
Filter — documented: bright but rounded. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass, cutoff ≈ 2.5–4 kHz, resonance 15–25 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 70 %, filter-envelope amount +40 %.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 5 ms, decay 300 ms, sustain 50 %, release 250 ms — a soft pluck into a sustained tone.
Amplifier envelope — inferred: attack 5–10 ms, decay 200 ms, sustain 90 %, release 250 ms.
Glide — documented: slides between notes. Inferred: 60–120 ms portamento, legato-only where the synth offers it; envelope retrigger off on legato.
LFO / vibrato — inferred: triangle 5.5–6 Hz to pitch, depth 0 at rest and up to ±30 cents under the modwheel.
Drive — inferred: a light overdrive or saturation on the synth or downstream.
Pitch-bend — range ±2 semitones for scoops into notes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975); releases on Record Makers run from Teddy Boy (2006) and 1986 (2007) through Nightcall (2010, co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixed by SebastiAn), OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022). The album title and the 1986 Testarossa mythology point directly at Sega's OutRun (1986) arcade game and its Yamaha FM leads.

The synth-lead idiom itself descends from the mid-1980s: Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F (1984), Jan Hammer's Miami Vice themes (1984–89), Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis — Minimoog, Jupiter-8 and SH-101 style saw leads.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): no confirmed instrument list exists for Kavinsky's leads; an analog monosynth or a software emulation is assumed, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Testarossa Autodrive (2007, 1986 EP) and Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn remix, 2007).
Kavinsky — ProtoVision, Rampage, Roadgame, Odd Look — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Plasma — Reborn (2022).
Reference points for the idiom: Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (1984); Jan Hammer — Miami Vice Theme (1984).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

control	gesture	effect
velocity	harder for the hook notes	opens the filter and adds edge (inferred mapping)
modwheel	raise on long notes, not on runs	5.5–6 Hz vibrato up to ±30 cents
pitch-bend	scoop up a tone into the first note of a phrase	the classic 80s lead entry
glide / legato	overlap notes for slides, detach for clean steps	60–120 ms portamento only on legato
aftertouch	press on sustained notes	vibrato or slight cutoff lift (inferred)
octave	play the hook up an octave on the last repeat	lift into the outro

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo delay: dotted-eighth or quarter-note, 25–35 % feedback, filtered repeats.
Medium plate reverb, 1.5–2.5 s.
Tape or tube saturation for edge.
Subtle chorus or doubler for width (keep the centre mono).
High-shelf lift around 6–8 kHz and a high-pass at 200 Hz.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

Auto-generated from the create-preset fan-out mapping outcomes; regenerated each run.

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)" — confidence medium — 27 control(s) — Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)" — confidence high — 49 control(s) — Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Testarossa Lead (MS-20)" — confidence medium — 23 control(s) — Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Testarossa Lead (Neutron)" — confidence medium — 31 control(s) — Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Testarossa Lead (Prologue)" — confidence high — 40 control(s) — The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 41 control(s) — No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

Lore

MASTER

—

TIMBRE

MAIN/SUB BALANCE

—

TYPE

—

PANEL

—

CONTROL

PORTAMENTO

25%

VOICE SPREAD

0%

VOICE MODE DEPTH

20%

OCTAVE

OCTAVE −

—

OCTAVE +

—

SUB / PGM FETCH

SUB ON / PGM FETCH

—

VOICE MODE

POLY

—

MONO

ON

UNISON

—

CHORD

—

SELECT

—

ARPEGGIATOR

ON / LATCH

—

TEMPO

—

RANGE

—

TYPE

—

VCO 1

WAVE

sawtooth

OCTAVE

8'

PITCH

0 cents

SHAPE

0%

PITCH EG

—

INT

—

VCO 2

WAVE

sawtooth

OCTAVE

8'

PITCH

+7 cents

SHAPE

0%

SYNC / RING

OFF

CROSS MOD DEPTH

0%

MULTI ENGINE

TYPE SELECT

—

OCTAVE

—

TYPE

—

SHAPE

—

MIXER

VCO 1

90%

VCO 2

80%

MULTI

0%

VCF

CUTOFF

68%

RESONANCE

20%

EG INT

40%

DRIVE

50%

LOW CUT

OFF

KEYTRACK

50%

AMP EG

ATTACK

8 ms

DECAY

200 ms

SUSTAIN

90%

RELEASE

250 ms

EG

ATTACK

5 ms

DECAY

300 ms

SUSTAIN

50%

RELEASE

250 ms

LFO

WAVE

triangle

MODE

FAST

RATE

5.8 Hz

INT

0%

TARGET

PITCH

MOD EFFECT

SELECT

—

ON / OFF

OFF

SPEED

—

DEPTH

—

DELAY / REVERB

MODE

DELAY

TIME

375 ms

DEPTH

30%

L.F. COMP

GAIN

—

ON / OFF

—

PERFORMANCE

PITCH

—

MOD

—

FX & outboard

Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Repatch required.

Default route & patching

Committed wiring: Prologue 8 → Mindprint T-Comp → AR22 inputs 13,14

Saved synth profile: Chain B: Korg Prologue 8 — Clean Textures & Atmosphere

Recipe chain: Pedal Chain 3 · The saved passive DI is a ProD2. Black Lion Audio Auteur is a separate mic preamp.

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Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)

Behringer UB-Xa

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping high · not numerically scored

No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

41 saved controls · — means no saved value

Demo this preset

Play a short exercise to hear the attack, movement and release. These are original audition patterns, not transcriptions of the reference song.

Behringer UB-Xa · Primary · Single notes · 4/4

Listen for clear attacks, consistent note levels and the release at each gap.

How to play it

Import the MIDI into your DAW, route its track to the synth showing this preset, and loop the selected bars. Tempo and key are exercise settings. C4 means MIDI note 60; some DAWs label octaves differently. The MIDI sends notes on channel 1 and contains no patch change. It does not load the preset or trigger hardware from this page.

Why this preset? Sources, design & revisions

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The reference
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The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.
03
On this synth & chain
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No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.
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Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

A bright, singing monophonic analog saw lead with legato glide, modwheel vibrato and a delay tail — the OutRun hook voice, played one note at a time above the pulsing bass.

Class: mono — one note at a time
Category: Lead
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-lead
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature lead"

Identity

What it is. The melodic hook voice of Kavinsky's instrumental tracks: a monophonic, slightly detuned sawtooth lead that sings phrases in the C4–C6 register above the eighth-note bass and the chord pad. It is confident and bright but not thin, with slides between notes and a delay tail that fills the gaps.

Documented traits: monophonic legato phrasing with audible pitch slides, bright saw-family tone, delay-soaked, carries the tune when there is no vocal. On Nightcall the melodic 'lead' is actually a vocoded voice (co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo); this pack's lead is the synth lead idiom heard on the instrumental tracks, not a vocoder.

Inferred (labelled): the waveform mix, filter, envelope and glide values in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction, not a claim about any original patch. Palette note: cover colours are recalled approximations.

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The Sound

Reconstruction of the idiom. Items marked documented are audible on the records; everything else is inferred and labelled as such.

Oscillators — documented: saw-family, slightly thick. Inferred: osc 1 sawtooth; osc 2 sawtooth detuned +7 cents (or a square one octave down at ≈30 % for body on two-oscillator synths); a small sub-oscillator level where available.
Filter — documented: bright but rounded. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass, cutoff ≈ 2.5–4 kHz, resonance 15–25 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 70 %, filter-envelope amount +40 %.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 5 ms, decay 300 ms, sustain 50 %, release 250 ms — a soft pluck into a sustained tone.
Amplifier envelope — inferred: attack 5–10 ms, decay 200 ms, sustain 90 %, release 250 ms.
Glide — documented: slides between notes. Inferred: 60–120 ms portamento, legato-only where the synth offers it; envelope retrigger off on legato.
LFO / vibrato — inferred: triangle 5.5–6 Hz to pitch, depth 0 at rest and up to ±30 cents under the modwheel.
Drive — inferred: a light overdrive or saturation on the synth or downstream.
Pitch-bend — range ±2 semitones for scoops into notes.

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History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975); releases on Record Makers run from Teddy Boy (2006) and 1986 (2007) through Nightcall (2010, co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixed by SebastiAn), OutRun (2013) and Reborn (2022). The album title and the 1986 Testarossa mythology point directly at Sega's OutRun (1986) arcade game and its Yamaha FM leads.

The synth-lead idiom itself descends from the mid-1980s: Harold Faltermeyer's Axel F (1984), Jan Hammer's Miami Vice themes (1984–89), Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis — Minimoog, Jupiter-8 and SH-101 style saw leads.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): no confirmed instrument list exists for Kavinsky's leads; an analog monosynth or a software emulation is assumed, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

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Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Testarossa Autodrive (2007, 1986 EP) and Testarossa Overdrive (SebastiAn remix, 2007).
Kavinsky — ProtoVision, Rampage, Roadgame, Odd Look — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Plasma — Reborn (2022).
Reference points for the idiom: Harold Faltermeyer — Axel F (1984); Jan Hammer — Miami Vice Theme (1984).

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Performance & Technique

control	gesture	effect
velocity	harder for the hook notes	opens the filter and adds edge (inferred mapping)
modwheel	raise on long notes, not on runs	5.5–6 Hz vibrato up to ±30 cents
pitch-bend	scoop up a tone into the first note of a phrase	the classic 80s lead entry
glide / legato	overlap notes for slides, detach for clean steps	60–120 ms portamento only on legato
aftertouch	press on sustained notes	vibrato or slight cutoff lift (inferred)
octave	play the hook up an octave on the last repeat	lift into the outro

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FX & Chain

Stereo delay: dotted-eighth or quarter-note, 25–35 % feedback, filtered repeats.
Medium plate reverb, 1.5–2.5 s.
Tape or tube saturation for edge.
Subtle chorus or doubler for width (keep the centre mono).
High-shelf lift around 6–8 kHz and a high-pass at 200 Hz.

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Renditions

Auto-generated from the create-preset fan-out mapping outcomes; regenerated each run.

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Testarossa Lead (DeepMind)" — confidence medium — 27 control(s) — Panel spec exposes one ADSR slider set: the values here are the VCA envelope (ENVELOPES.vca ON); set the VCF envelope by hand to A 5 ms, D 300 ms, S 50 %, R 250 ms. Mono/unison voice mode, legato-only glide and the modwheel-to-LFO1-pitch depth are menu settings.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Testarossa Lead (MatrixBrute)" — confidence high — 49 control(s) — Mono voice mode and the modwheel-to-LFO1-to-pitch route are set in the mod matrix by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Testarossa Lead (MS-20)" — confidence medium — 23 control(s) — Single EG2 serves both filter and amp, so the pluck-into-sustain shape is shared; vibrato is a fixed MG depth rather than modwheel-controlled unless the wheel is patched to VCO FM; the delay comes from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Testarossa Lead (Neutron)" — confidence medium — 31 control(s) — Modwheel vibrato needs a patch cable (LFO out to OSC 1+2 pitch in via an attenuator) and glide needs the slew/porta patch; the analogue BBD delay is mono and darker than the researched stereo delay.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Testarossa Lead (Prologue)" — confidence high — 40 control(s) — The Prologue's 2-pole filter is a little brighter than the 24 dB target; tame it with cutoff and resonance rather than drive.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Testarossa Lead (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 41 control(s) — No onboard delay: the dotted-eighth delay comes from the studio FX; legato-only glide is a menu setting.

Lore

KEYBOARD

SPLIT

—

DOUBLE

—

LOWER

—

UPPER

—

DOWN

—

UP

—

TRANSPOSE

—

CHORD

—

ARP

OFF

AUTO

—

SETTINGS

—

HOLD

—

MANUAL

VOLUME

80%

BALANCE

—

MASTER TUNE

—

OSC 2 ONLY

—

VINTAGE

—

PERF LFO

RATE

5.8 Hz

TEMPO SYNC

—

WAVEFORM

triangle

DEPTH

30%

CONTROL

PORTAMENTO

25%

BEND

2 semitones

UNISON

ON

VOICES

2

OSC 1

FREQUENCY

—

saw

ON

pulse

OFF

tri

OFF

VOICE DETUNE

7 cents

OSC 1 / LFO INVERT

—

OSC 2

FREQUENCY

—

saw

ON

pulse

OFF

tri

OFF

OSC 2 DETUNE

+7 cents

SYNC

OFF

PW / MOD ROUTING

PULSE WIDTH

—

FREQ

—

F-ENV PW

—

MOD FILTER

—

FILTER

FREQUENCY

68%

RESONANCE

20%

MODULATION

40%

NOISE

0%

OSC 1

ON

HALF

OFF

OSC 2

ON

FULL

ON

4 POLE

4-pole

TRACK

ON

FILTER ENVELOPE

ATTACK

5 ms

DECAY

300 ms

SUSTAIN

50%

RELEASE

250 ms

MOD 1 DELAY

—

MOD 1 ATTACK

—

TRIG POINT

—

LOUDNESS ENVELOPE

ATTACK

8 ms

DECAY

200 ms

SUSTAIN

90%

RELEASE

250 ms

MOD 2 DELAY

—

MOD 2 ATTACK

—

PEDAL RELEASE

—

MODULATION

LFO RATE

5.8 Hz

OSC 1

—

OSC 2

—

FREQ

—

FILTER

—

MOD DEPTH 1

0%

WAVEFORM

triangle

TEMPO SYNC

—

QUANTIZE

—

INVERT

—

TRACK

—

MOD LFO PHASE

—

VOLUME

—

DEPTH 2

—

PERF LFO PHASE

—

PERFORMANCE LFO

WAVEFORM

—

OSC 1

ON

OSC 2

ON

VOLUME

—

DEPTH 1 PHASE

—

QUANTIZE

—

INVERT

—

ENV MOD

—

SEQUENCER

SHIFT

—

REST / TIE

—

RECORD

—

STOP

—

PLAY / PAUSE

—

SETTINGS

—

APPEND

—

CUR LAST

—

RESTART

—

PERFORMANCE

PITCH

—

MOD

—

FX & outboard

Chain A: DeepMind 12 — Lush Pads & Strings

Repatch required.

Default route & patching

Committed wiring: UB-Xa → Pedal Chain 4 → AR22 inputs 9,10

Saved synth profile: None assigned.

Recipe chain: Pedal Chain 3 · The saved passive DI is a ProD2. Black Lion Audio Auteur is a separate mic preamp.

Review the route on Patchbay ↗

✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Improve this preset

Demo this preset

The reference

The sound → the decisions

On this synth & chain

Listen → improve → revise

Updates

Re-researched

Rendition added · Behringer DeepMind 12

Researched

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

Identity

The Sound

History & Provenance

Heard In · Adapted By

Performance & Technique

FX & Chain

Renditions

Lore

ARP / SEQ

LFO 1

LFO 2

OSC 1

OSC 2

NOISE

POLY

VCF

VCA

HPF

ENVELOPES

MASTER

PERFORMANCE

TC Electronic JUNE-60 V2 Chorus · Unresolved

Behringer DUAL-PHASE Authentic Dual Phase Shifter · Unresolved

Walrus Audio Meraki Stereo Analog Dual Delay · Unresolved

Eventide H9 Max (instance #1) · Unresolved

Demo this preset

The reference

The sound → the decisions

On this synth & chain

Listen → improve → revise

Updates

Re-researched

Rendition added · Arturia MatrixBrute

Researched

Kavinsky Testarossa Lead

Identity

The Sound

History & Provenance

Heard In · Adapted By

Performance & Technique

FX & Chain

Renditions

Lore

VCO 1

VCO 2

VCO 3

AUDIO MOD

MIXER

NOISE

VCF 1 · STEINER

VCF 2 · LADDER

FILTER MASTER

ENV 1 · FILTER

ENV 2 · AMP

ENV 3 · AUX

LFO 1

LFO 2

MOD MATRIX

MACRO

FX

SEQ / ARP

MASTER

PERFORMANCE

TC Electronic JUNE-60 V2 Chorus · Unresolved

Behringer DUAL-PHASE Authentic Dual Phase Shifter · Unresolved

Walrus Audio Meraki Stereo Analog Dual Delay · Unresolved

Eventide H9 Max (instance #1) · Unresolved

Demo this preset

The reference