Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)

Behringer DeepMind 12

Patch sheet ↗Device reference ↗Research 0/100Mapping high · 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.

28 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 · Polyphonic · 4/4

Hold each bar, then leave a short gap to hear the release, chorus and reverb.

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 dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.
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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 · 05:49 UTC
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Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature pad sounds. Create one pad 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 Nightdrive Pad

A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.

Class: poly — chords / stacked voices
Category: Pad
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-pad
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature pad"

Identity

What it is. The harmonic bed under Kavinsky's night-drive tracks: a polyphonic analog string-pad that holds minor chords for bars at a time while a sequenced bass pulses in eighths beneath it. It lives in the middle register (chords voiced roughly C3–C5), dark and warm rather than glassy, smeared wide by stereo chorus. In the arrangement it is the glue between the bass and the vocoder or lead, and it carries the melancholy the whole style trades on.

Documented traits (audible on the records): slow attack, long sustain and release, warm slightly detuned analog-poly character (Juno/Jupiter family rather than digital), heavy chorus width, almost always minor-key harmony.

Inferred (labelled, not a claim about the original patch): the specific oscillator mix, filter cutoff, envelope times and LFO settings given in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction of the idiom. 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: sawtooth-based analog poly with detune/chorus width. Inferred: two saws per voice detuned about ±8–12 cents; where a synth has only one oscillator per voice, add a square sub-oscillator at −1 octave around 30–40 % and a touch of PWM for movement.
Filter — documented: dark, low-pass, never fizzy. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass (12 dB on Juno-style designs), cutoff at rest ≈ 900 Hz–1.5 kHz, resonance 10–15 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 50 %, filter-envelope amount +20–30 % so the tone opens a little on each chord.
Amplifier envelope — documented: slow bloom, long tail. Inferred: attack 400–800 ms, decay ≈ 1 s, sustain 85–100 %, release 1.2–2 s.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 600 ms–1.2 s, decay ≈ 2 s, sustain ≈ 60 %, release ≈ 1.5 s.
LFO — inferred: slow triangle (0.2–0.5 Hz) to cutoff at small depth for bar-length drift; a 5 Hz triangle to pitch only under the modwheel.
Chorus — documented: essential to the width. Use the synth's stereo chorus (both stages if it has them) or the studio's downstream chorus.
Voicing — close-position minor triads and minor-7ths, root doubled by the bass line; chords overlap by about a beat on changes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975). Teddy Boy EP (2006) and 1986 EP (2007) on Record Makers set the persona — a driver who crashed his Testarossa in 1986 and returns as a zombie making music. Nightcall (2010) was co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and mixed by SebastiAn; its placement in Drive (2011) carried the sound worldwide. The album OutRun (2013) — named for the 1986 Sega arcade game — and Reborn (2022) extend the same palette.

The pad idiom descends from 1980s film and Italo-disco practice: Juno-106 / Jupiter-8 style polysynth strings through chorus, as heard in Tangerine Dream and Harold Faltermeyer scores and in Giorgio Moroder productions.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): there is no confirmed patch sheet or instrument list for Kavinsky's pads; Roland-family analog polys or their software emulations are the widely assumed source, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Nightcall (2010): the chord bed under the vocoder verse and chorus.
Kavinsky — Prelude, Blizzard, Deadcruiser, Endless — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Zenith — Reborn (2022), with a more modern polish.
College & Electric Youth — A Real Hero (2010): sibling pad idiom on the Drive soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez — Drive score (2011): the slower, more ambient cousin.
Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and the wider synthwave wave (2012 onward) adapt the same bed.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

Played as sustained block chords; the expression is in the filter and the overlaps rather than in the fingers.

control	gesture	effect
velocity	low or no sensitivity; play evenly	pad stays level, no pumping between chords
modwheel	ease in over a phrase	5 Hz vibrato plus a small cutoff lift (inferred)
aftertouch	lean into a held chord	slight cutoff opening (inferred)
filter cutoff automation	rise slowly over 8–16 bars into a chorus	the classic OutRun build
sustain / overlap	let each chord ring about a beat into the next	chorus smear across changes
voicing	close-position minor triads / minor-7ths, C3–C5	the dark, melancholy colour

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo chorus (essential; both stages on a Juno-style unit).
Gentle tape or analog saturation for warmth.
Long plate or hall reverb, 2–4 s decay, 20–40 ms pre-delay.
Optional dotted-eighth stereo delay, low in the mix.
High-pass around 120 Hz so the pad stays out of the bass.
Light sidechain ducking against the kick, in keeping with the compressed, pumping feel of SebastiAn's OutRun mixes (inferred practice, not a documented chain).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

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

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)" — confidence high — 28 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)" — confidence medium — 52 control(s) — Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)" — best-effort — confidence low — 21 control(s) — Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)" — confidence medium — 25 control(s) — Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)" — confidence high — 44 control(s) — The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 36 control(s) — No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

Lore

ARP / SEQ

RATE

—

GATE TIME

—

ON/OFF

OFF

TAP/HOLD

—

EDIT

—

OCTAVE

—

LFO 1

RATE

0.3 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

15%

PITCH

+8 cents

LEVEL

40%

SYNC

OFF

EDIT

—

NOISE

NOISE LEVEL

0%

POLY

CHORD

—

POLY CHORD

—

UNISON DETUNE

12 cents

EDIT

—

VCF

FREQ

38%

RES

12%

ENV

25%

LFO

8%

KYBD

50%

2 POLE

OFF

EDIT

—

INVERT

OFF

VCA

LEVEL

80%

EDIT

—

HPF

FREQ

10%

BOOST

—

ENVELOPES

A

600 ms

D

1000 ms

S

90%

R

1500 ms

VCA

ON

VCF

—

MOD

—

CURVES

—

MASTER

OCT ▼

—

VOLUME

—

PORTAMENTO

0%

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.

Review the route on Patchbay ↗

✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)

Arturia MatrixBrute

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

Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).

52 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

Hold each bar, then leave a short gap to hear the release, chorus and reverb.

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 dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 · 05:49 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 Nightdrive Pad

A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.

Class: poly — chords / stacked voices
Category: Pad
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-pad
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature pad"

Identity

What it is. The harmonic bed under Kavinsky's night-drive tracks: a polyphonic analog string-pad that holds minor chords for bars at a time while a sequenced bass pulses in eighths beneath it. It lives in the middle register (chords voiced roughly C3–C5), dark and warm rather than glassy, smeared wide by stereo chorus. In the arrangement it is the glue between the bass and the vocoder or lead, and it carries the melancholy the whole style trades on.

Documented traits (audible on the records): slow attack, long sustain and release, warm slightly detuned analog-poly character (Juno/Jupiter family rather than digital), heavy chorus width, almost always minor-key harmony.

Inferred (labelled, not a claim about the original patch): the specific oscillator mix, filter cutoff, envelope times and LFO settings given in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction of the idiom. 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: sawtooth-based analog poly with detune/chorus width. Inferred: two saws per voice detuned about ±8–12 cents; where a synth has only one oscillator per voice, add a square sub-oscillator at −1 octave around 30–40 % and a touch of PWM for movement.
Filter — documented: dark, low-pass, never fizzy. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass (12 dB on Juno-style designs), cutoff at rest ≈ 900 Hz–1.5 kHz, resonance 10–15 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 50 %, filter-envelope amount +20–30 % so the tone opens a little on each chord.
Amplifier envelope — documented: slow bloom, long tail. Inferred: attack 400–800 ms, decay ≈ 1 s, sustain 85–100 %, release 1.2–2 s.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 600 ms–1.2 s, decay ≈ 2 s, sustain ≈ 60 %, release ≈ 1.5 s.
LFO — inferred: slow triangle (0.2–0.5 Hz) to cutoff at small depth for bar-length drift; a 5 Hz triangle to pitch only under the modwheel.
Chorus — documented: essential to the width. Use the synth's stereo chorus (both stages if it has them) or the studio's downstream chorus.
Voicing — close-position minor triads and minor-7ths, root doubled by the bass line; chords overlap by about a beat on changes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975). Teddy Boy EP (2006) and 1986 EP (2007) on Record Makers set the persona — a driver who crashed his Testarossa in 1986 and returns as a zombie making music. Nightcall (2010) was co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and mixed by SebastiAn; its placement in Drive (2011) carried the sound worldwide. The album OutRun (2013) — named for the 1986 Sega arcade game — and Reborn (2022) extend the same palette.

The pad idiom descends from 1980s film and Italo-disco practice: Juno-106 / Jupiter-8 style polysynth strings through chorus, as heard in Tangerine Dream and Harold Faltermeyer scores and in Giorgio Moroder productions.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): there is no confirmed patch sheet or instrument list for Kavinsky's pads; Roland-family analog polys or their software emulations are the widely assumed source, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Nightcall (2010): the chord bed under the vocoder verse and chorus.
Kavinsky — Prelude, Blizzard, Deadcruiser, Endless — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Zenith — Reborn (2022), with a more modern polish.
College & Electric Youth — A Real Hero (2010): sibling pad idiom on the Drive soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez — Drive score (2011): the slower, more ambient cousin.
Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and the wider synthwave wave (2012 onward) adapt the same bed.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

Played as sustained block chords; the expression is in the filter and the overlaps rather than in the fingers.

control	gesture	effect
velocity	low or no sensitivity; play evenly	pad stays level, no pumping between chords
modwheel	ease in over a phrase	5 Hz vibrato plus a small cutoff lift (inferred)
aftertouch	lean into a held chord	slight cutoff opening (inferred)
filter cutoff automation	rise slowly over 8–16 bars into a chorus	the classic OutRun build
sustain / overlap	let each chord ring about a beat into the next	chorus smear across changes
voicing	close-position minor triads / minor-7ths, C3–C5	the dark, melancholy colour

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo chorus (essential; both stages on a Juno-style unit).
Gentle tape or analog saturation for warmth.
Long plate or hall reverb, 2–4 s decay, 20–40 ms pre-delay.
Optional dotted-eighth stereo delay, low in the mix.
High-pass around 120 Hz so the pad stays out of the bass.
Light sidechain ducking against the kick, in keeping with the compressed, pumping feel of SebastiAn's OutRun mixes (inferred practice, not a documented chain).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

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

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)" — confidence high — 28 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)" — confidence medium — 52 control(s) — Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)" — best-effort — confidence low — 21 control(s) — Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)" — confidence medium — 25 control(s) — Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)" — confidence high — 44 control(s) — The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 36 control(s) — No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

Lore

VCO 1

OCTAVE

8'

COARSE

—

FINE

0 cents

SAW

80%

ULTRASAW

35%

SQUARE

0%

PULSE WIDTH

—

TRIANGLE

—

METALIZER

—

SUB

25%

VCO 2

OCTAVE

8'

COARSE

—

FINE

+8 cents

SAW

80%

ULTRASAW

25%

SQUARE

0%

PULSE WIDTH

—

TRIANGLE

—

METALIZER

—

SYNC

OFF

VCO 3

OCTAVE

8'

COARSE

—

WAVE

reverse-saw

KBD TRACK

ON

LFO DIV

—

LEVEL

80%

AUDIO MOD

VCO1 > VCO2

—

VCO3 > VCO1

—

VCO3 > VCO2

—

NOISE > VCF1

—

MIXER

VCO 1

80%

VCO 2

80%

VCO 3

80%

NOISE

0%

EXT IN

—

NOISE

COLOR

—

VCF 1 · STEINER

CUTOFF

90%

RESONANCE

0%

BRUTE FACTOR

0%

MODE

lowpass

VCF 2 · LADDER

CUTOFF

35%

RESONANCE

12%

BRUTE FACTOR

5%

MODE

lowpass

12/24 dB

ON

KEY TRACK

ON

FILTER MASTER

MASTER CUTOFF

—

ROUTING

series

ENV 1 · FILTER

ATTACK

900 ms

DECAY

2000 ms

SUSTAIN

60%

RELEASE

1500 ms

VELO/VCF

0%

CURVES

—

ENV 2 · AMP

ATTACK

600 ms

DECAY

1000 ms

SUSTAIN

90%

RELEASE

1500 ms

VELO/VCA

10%

CURVES

—

ENV 3 · AUX

DELAY

—

ATTACK

—

DECAY

—

SUSTAIN

—

RELEASE

—

AMOUNT

—

CURVES

—

LFO 1

WAVE

triangle

RATE

0.3 Hz

PHASE

—

SYNC

free

AMOUNT

10%

LFO 2

WAVE

—

RATE

—

PHASE

—

SYNC

—

AMOUNT

—

MOD MATRIX

AMOUNT

—

SELECT

—

MACRO

M1

—

M2

—

M3

—

M4

—

FX

MODE

chorus

TIME

12 ms

FEEDBACK

20%

MIX

40%

ON / OFF

ON

SEQ / ARP

MODE

off

TEMPO

—

RATE

—

PLAY / STOP

—

RECORD

—

HOLD

—

TAP

—

MASTER

MASTER VOLUME

—

GLIDE

0%

PERFORMANCE

PITCH

—

MOD

—

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 ↗

✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)

Korg MS-20 Mini

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

Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.

21 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

Hold each bar, then leave a short gap to hear the release, chorus and reverb.

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 dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
04
Listen → improve → revise
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18 Sept 2026 · 05:54 UTC
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Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature pad sounds. Create one pad 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: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature pad sounds. Create one pad 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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Kavinsky Nightdrive Pad

A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.

Class: poly — chords / stacked voices
Category: Pad
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-pad
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature pad"

Identity

What it is. The harmonic bed under Kavinsky's night-drive tracks: a polyphonic analog string-pad that holds minor chords for bars at a time while a sequenced bass pulses in eighths beneath it. It lives in the middle register (chords voiced roughly C3–C5), dark and warm rather than glassy, smeared wide by stereo chorus. In the arrangement it is the glue between the bass and the vocoder or lead, and it carries the melancholy the whole style trades on.

Documented traits (audible on the records): slow attack, long sustain and release, warm slightly detuned analog-poly character (Juno/Jupiter family rather than digital), heavy chorus width, almost always minor-key harmony.

Inferred (labelled, not a claim about the original patch): the specific oscillator mix, filter cutoff, envelope times and LFO settings given in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction of the idiom. 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: sawtooth-based analog poly with detune/chorus width. Inferred: two saws per voice detuned about ±8–12 cents; where a synth has only one oscillator per voice, add a square sub-oscillator at −1 octave around 30–40 % and a touch of PWM for movement.
Filter — documented: dark, low-pass, never fizzy. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass (12 dB on Juno-style designs), cutoff at rest ≈ 900 Hz–1.5 kHz, resonance 10–15 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 50 %, filter-envelope amount +20–30 % so the tone opens a little on each chord.
Amplifier envelope — documented: slow bloom, long tail. Inferred: attack 400–800 ms, decay ≈ 1 s, sustain 85–100 %, release 1.2–2 s.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 600 ms–1.2 s, decay ≈ 2 s, sustain ≈ 60 %, release ≈ 1.5 s.
LFO — inferred: slow triangle (0.2–0.5 Hz) to cutoff at small depth for bar-length drift; a 5 Hz triangle to pitch only under the modwheel.
Chorus — documented: essential to the width. Use the synth's stereo chorus (both stages if it has them) or the studio's downstream chorus.
Voicing — close-position minor triads and minor-7ths, root doubled by the bass line; chords overlap by about a beat on changes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975). Teddy Boy EP (2006) and 1986 EP (2007) on Record Makers set the persona — a driver who crashed his Testarossa in 1986 and returns as a zombie making music. Nightcall (2010) was co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and mixed by SebastiAn; its placement in Drive (2011) carried the sound worldwide. The album OutRun (2013) — named for the 1986 Sega arcade game — and Reborn (2022) extend the same palette.

The pad idiom descends from 1980s film and Italo-disco practice: Juno-106 / Jupiter-8 style polysynth strings through chorus, as heard in Tangerine Dream and Harold Faltermeyer scores and in Giorgio Moroder productions.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): there is no confirmed patch sheet or instrument list for Kavinsky's pads; Roland-family analog polys or their software emulations are the widely assumed source, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Nightcall (2010): the chord bed under the vocoder verse and chorus.
Kavinsky — Prelude, Blizzard, Deadcruiser, Endless — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Zenith — Reborn (2022), with a more modern polish.
College & Electric Youth — A Real Hero (2010): sibling pad idiom on the Drive soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez — Drive score (2011): the slower, more ambient cousin.
Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and the wider synthwave wave (2012 onward) adapt the same bed.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

Played as sustained block chords; the expression is in the filter and the overlaps rather than in the fingers.

control	gesture	effect
velocity	low or no sensitivity; play evenly	pad stays level, no pumping between chords
modwheel	ease in over a phrase	5 Hz vibrato plus a small cutoff lift (inferred)
aftertouch	lean into a held chord	slight cutoff opening (inferred)
filter cutoff automation	rise slowly over 8–16 bars into a chorus	the classic OutRun build
sustain / overlap	let each chord ring about a beat into the next	chorus smear across changes
voicing	close-position minor triads / minor-7ths, C3–C5	the dark, melancholy colour

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo chorus (essential; both stages on a Juno-style unit).
Gentle tape or analog saturation for warmth.
Long plate or hall reverb, 2–4 s decay, 20–40 ms pre-delay.
Optional dotted-eighth stereo delay, low in the mix.
High-pass around 120 Hz so the pad stays out of the bass.
Light sidechain ducking against the kick, in keeping with the compressed, pumping feel of SebastiAn's OutRun mixes (inferred practice, not a documented chain).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

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

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)" — confidence high — 28 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)" — confidence medium — 52 control(s) — Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)" — best-effort — confidence low — 21 control(s) — Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)" — confidence medium — 25 control(s) — Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)" — confidence high — 44 control(s) — The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 36 control(s) — No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

Lore

VCO 1

WAVE FORM

sawtooth

PW

—

SCALE

8'

VCO 2

WAVE FORM

square

PITCH

+8 cents

SCALE

16'

VCO MIXER

VCO 1 LEVEL

80%

VCO 2 LEVEL

45%

VC HPF

CUTOFF FREQUENCY

5%

PEAK

0%

VC LPF

CUTOFF FREQUENCY

35%

PEAK

15%

MODULATION GENERATOR

WAVE FORM

50%

FREQUENCY

8%

ENVELOPE GENERATOR 1

DELAY TIME

—

ATTACK TIME

—

RELEASE TIME

—

ENVELOPE GENERATOR 2

HOLD TIME

0 ms

ATTACK TIME

600 ms

DECAY TIME

1000 ms

SUSTAIN LEVEL

90%

RELEASE TIME

1500 ms

FREQUENCY MODULATION

MG/T.EXT

—

EG1/EXT

—

HPF CUTOFF MOD

MG/T.EXT

—

EG2/EXT

—

LPF CUTOFF MOD

MG/T.EXT

10%

EG2/EXT

25%

EXTERNAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR

SIGNAL LEVEL

—

LOW CUT FREQ

—

HIGH CUT FREQ

—

CV ADJUST

—

MASTER

PORTAMENTO TIME

0 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

Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)

Behringer Neutron

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

Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.

25 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

Hold each bar, then leave a short gap to hear the release, chorus and reverb.

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 dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
04
Listen → improve → revise
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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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 · 05:50 UTC
Revision 1 · source version: primary
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Research: unsourced (recall)
Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature pad sounds. Create one pad 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 Nightdrive Pad

A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.

Class: poly — chords / stacked voices
Category: Pad
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-pad
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature pad"

Identity

What it is. The harmonic bed under Kavinsky's night-drive tracks: a polyphonic analog string-pad that holds minor chords for bars at a time while a sequenced bass pulses in eighths beneath it. It lives in the middle register (chords voiced roughly C3–C5), dark and warm rather than glassy, smeared wide by stereo chorus. In the arrangement it is the glue between the bass and the vocoder or lead, and it carries the melancholy the whole style trades on.

Documented traits (audible on the records): slow attack, long sustain and release, warm slightly detuned analog-poly character (Juno/Jupiter family rather than digital), heavy chorus width, almost always minor-key harmony.

Inferred (labelled, not a claim about the original patch): the specific oscillator mix, filter cutoff, envelope times and LFO settings given in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction of the idiom. 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: sawtooth-based analog poly with detune/chorus width. Inferred: two saws per voice detuned about ±8–12 cents; where a synth has only one oscillator per voice, add a square sub-oscillator at −1 octave around 30–40 % and a touch of PWM for movement.
Filter — documented: dark, low-pass, never fizzy. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass (12 dB on Juno-style designs), cutoff at rest ≈ 900 Hz–1.5 kHz, resonance 10–15 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 50 %, filter-envelope amount +20–30 % so the tone opens a little on each chord.
Amplifier envelope — documented: slow bloom, long tail. Inferred: attack 400–800 ms, decay ≈ 1 s, sustain 85–100 %, release 1.2–2 s.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 600 ms–1.2 s, decay ≈ 2 s, sustain ≈ 60 %, release ≈ 1.5 s.
LFO — inferred: slow triangle (0.2–0.5 Hz) to cutoff at small depth for bar-length drift; a 5 Hz triangle to pitch only under the modwheel.
Chorus — documented: essential to the width. Use the synth's stereo chorus (both stages if it has them) or the studio's downstream chorus.
Voicing — close-position minor triads and minor-7ths, root doubled by the bass line; chords overlap by about a beat on changes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975). Teddy Boy EP (2006) and 1986 EP (2007) on Record Makers set the persona — a driver who crashed his Testarossa in 1986 and returns as a zombie making music. Nightcall (2010) was co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and mixed by SebastiAn; its placement in Drive (2011) carried the sound worldwide. The album OutRun (2013) — named for the 1986 Sega arcade game — and Reborn (2022) extend the same palette.

The pad idiom descends from 1980s film and Italo-disco practice: Juno-106 / Jupiter-8 style polysynth strings through chorus, as heard in Tangerine Dream and Harold Faltermeyer scores and in Giorgio Moroder productions.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): there is no confirmed patch sheet or instrument list for Kavinsky's pads; Roland-family analog polys or their software emulations are the widely assumed source, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Nightcall (2010): the chord bed under the vocoder verse and chorus.
Kavinsky — Prelude, Blizzard, Deadcruiser, Endless — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Zenith — Reborn (2022), with a more modern polish.
College & Electric Youth — A Real Hero (2010): sibling pad idiom on the Drive soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez — Drive score (2011): the slower, more ambient cousin.
Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and the wider synthwave wave (2012 onward) adapt the same bed.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

Played as sustained block chords; the expression is in the filter and the overlaps rather than in the fingers.

control	gesture	effect
velocity	low or no sensitivity; play evenly	pad stays level, no pumping between chords
modwheel	ease in over a phrase	5 Hz vibrato plus a small cutoff lift (inferred)
aftertouch	lean into a held chord	slight cutoff opening (inferred)
filter cutoff automation	rise slowly over 8–16 bars into a chorus	the classic OutRun build
sustain / overlap	let each chord ring about a beat into the next	chorus smear across changes
voicing	close-position minor triads / minor-7ths, C3–C5	the dark, melancholy colour

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo chorus (essential; both stages on a Juno-style unit).
Gentle tape or analog saturation for warmth.
Long plate or hall reverb, 2–4 s decay, 20–40 ms pre-delay.
Optional dotted-eighth stereo delay, low in the mix.
High-pass around 120 Hz so the pad stays out of the bass.
Light sidechain ducking against the kick, in keeping with the compressed, pumping feel of SebastiAn's OutRun mixes (inferred practice, not a documented chain).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

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

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)" — confidence high — 28 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)" — confidence medium — 52 control(s) — Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)" — best-effort — confidence low — 21 control(s) — Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)" — confidence medium — 25 control(s) — Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)" — confidence high — 44 control(s) — The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 36 control(s) — No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

Lore

OSCILLATORS

TUNE

0 cents

OSC MIX

50%

TUNE

+8 cents

SHAPE

50%

SHAPE

50%

RANGE

—

RANGE

—

OSC SYNC

OFF

PARAPHONIC

ON

WIDTH

—

WIDTH

—

VCF

FREQ

35%

MODE

—

RESO

12%

KEY TRK

ON

MOD DEPTH

8%

ENV DEPTH

25%

LFO

KEY SYNC

OFF

RATE

0.3 Hz

SHAPE

25%

DELAY

TIME

—

REPEATS

—

MIX

—

OVERDRIVE

DRIVE

—

TONE

—

LEVEL

—

OUTPUT

VOLUME

75%

NOISE

—

VCA

VCA BIAS

—

ENVELOPE 1

A

900 ms

D

2000 ms

S

60%

R

1500 ms

ENVELOPE 2

A

600 ms

D

1000 ms

S

90%

R

1500 ms

SAMPLE & HOLD

RATE

—

GLIDE

—

SLEW RATE LIMITER

SLEW

—

PORTA TIME

0 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

Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)

Korg Prologue 8

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

The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.

44 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 · Polyphonic · 4/4

Hold each bar, then leave a short gap to hear the release, chorus and reverb.

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 dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 · 05:50 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 pad sounds. Create one pad 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 Nightdrive Pad

A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.

Class: poly — chords / stacked voices
Category: Pad
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-pad
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature pad"

Identity

What it is. The harmonic bed under Kavinsky's night-drive tracks: a polyphonic analog string-pad that holds minor chords for bars at a time while a sequenced bass pulses in eighths beneath it. It lives in the middle register (chords voiced roughly C3–C5), dark and warm rather than glassy, smeared wide by stereo chorus. In the arrangement it is the glue between the bass and the vocoder or lead, and it carries the melancholy the whole style trades on.

Documented traits (audible on the records): slow attack, long sustain and release, warm slightly detuned analog-poly character (Juno/Jupiter family rather than digital), heavy chorus width, almost always minor-key harmony.

Inferred (labelled, not a claim about the original patch): the specific oscillator mix, filter cutoff, envelope times and LFO settings given in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction of the idiom. 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: sawtooth-based analog poly with detune/chorus width. Inferred: two saws per voice detuned about ±8–12 cents; where a synth has only one oscillator per voice, add a square sub-oscillator at −1 octave around 30–40 % and a touch of PWM for movement.
Filter — documented: dark, low-pass, never fizzy. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass (12 dB on Juno-style designs), cutoff at rest ≈ 900 Hz–1.5 kHz, resonance 10–15 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 50 %, filter-envelope amount +20–30 % so the tone opens a little on each chord.
Amplifier envelope — documented: slow bloom, long tail. Inferred: attack 400–800 ms, decay ≈ 1 s, sustain 85–100 %, release 1.2–2 s.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 600 ms–1.2 s, decay ≈ 2 s, sustain ≈ 60 %, release ≈ 1.5 s.
LFO — inferred: slow triangle (0.2–0.5 Hz) to cutoff at small depth for bar-length drift; a 5 Hz triangle to pitch only under the modwheel.
Chorus — documented: essential to the width. Use the synth's stereo chorus (both stages if it has them) or the studio's downstream chorus.
Voicing — close-position minor triads and minor-7ths, root doubled by the bass line; chords overlap by about a beat on changes.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975). Teddy Boy EP (2006) and 1986 EP (2007) on Record Makers set the persona — a driver who crashed his Testarossa in 1986 and returns as a zombie making music. Nightcall (2010) was co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and mixed by SebastiAn; its placement in Drive (2011) carried the sound worldwide. The album OutRun (2013) — named for the 1986 Sega arcade game — and Reborn (2022) extend the same palette.

The pad idiom descends from 1980s film and Italo-disco practice: Juno-106 / Jupiter-8 style polysynth strings through chorus, as heard in Tangerine Dream and Harold Faltermeyer scores and in Giorgio Moroder productions.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): there is no confirmed patch sheet or instrument list for Kavinsky's pads; Roland-family analog polys or their software emulations are the widely assumed source, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

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Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Nightcall (2010): the chord bed under the vocoder verse and chorus.
Kavinsky — Prelude, Blizzard, Deadcruiser, Endless — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Zenith — Reborn (2022), with a more modern polish.
College & Electric Youth — A Real Hero (2010): sibling pad idiom on the Drive soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez — Drive score (2011): the slower, more ambient cousin.
Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and the wider synthwave wave (2012 onward) adapt the same bed.

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Performance & Technique

Played as sustained block chords; the expression is in the filter and the overlaps rather than in the fingers.

control	gesture	effect
velocity	low or no sensitivity; play evenly	pad stays level, no pumping between chords
modwheel	ease in over a phrase	5 Hz vibrato plus a small cutoff lift (inferred)
aftertouch	lean into a held chord	slight cutoff opening (inferred)
filter cutoff automation	rise slowly over 8–16 bars into a chorus	the classic OutRun build
sustain / overlap	let each chord ring about a beat into the next	chorus smear across changes
voicing	close-position minor triads / minor-7ths, C3–C5	the dark, melancholy colour

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FX & Chain

Stereo chorus (essential; both stages on a Juno-style unit).
Gentle tape or analog saturation for warmth.
Long plate or hall reverb, 2–4 s decay, 20–40 ms pre-delay.
Optional dotted-eighth stereo delay, low in the mix.
High-pass around 120 Hz so the pad stays out of the bass.
Light sidechain ducking against the kick, in keeping with the compressed, pumping feel of SebastiAn's OutRun mixes (inferred practice, not a documented chain).

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Renditions

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

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)" — confidence high — 28 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)" — confidence medium — 52 control(s) — Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)" — best-effort — confidence low — 21 control(s) — Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)" — confidence medium — 25 control(s) — Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)" — confidence high — 44 control(s) — The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 36 control(s) — No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

Lore

MASTER

—

TIMBRE

MAIN/SUB BALANCE

—

TYPE

—

PANEL

—

CONTROL

PORTAMENTO

0%

VOICE SPREAD

30%

VOICE MODE DEPTH

0%

OCTAVE

OCTAVE −

—

OCTAVE +

—

SUB / PGM FETCH

SUB ON / PGM FETCH

—

VOICE MODE

POLY

ON

MONO

—

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

+8 cents

SHAPE

0%

SYNC / RING

OFF

CROSS MOD DEPTH

0%

MULTI ENGINE

TYPE SELECT

NOISE

OCTAVE

—

TYPE

—

SHAPE

—

MIXER

VCO 1

80%

VCO 2

75%

MULTI

0%

VCF

CUTOFF

38%

RESONANCE

12%

EG INT

25%

DRIVE

0%

LOW CUT

OFF

KEYTRACK

50%

AMP EG

ATTACK

600 ms

DECAY

1000 ms

SUSTAIN

90%

RELEASE

1500 ms

EG

ATTACK

900 ms

DECAY

2000 ms

SUSTAIN

60%

RELEASE

1500 ms

LFO

WAVE

triangle

MODE

SLOW

RATE

0.3 Hz

INT

8%

TARGET

CUTOFF

MOD EFFECT

SELECT

—

ON / OFF

ON

SPEED

0.6 Hz

DEPTH

45%

DELAY / REVERB

MODE

REVERB

TIME

2500 ms

DEPTH

30%

L.F. COMP

GAIN

—

ON / OFF

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.

Review the route on Patchbay ↗

✓ use · × bypass · ? unresolved · + optional

Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)

Behringer UB-Xa

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

No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

36 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 · Polyphonic · 4/4

Hold each bar, then leave a short gap to hear the release, chorus and reverb.

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.

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The reference
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The sound → the decisions
Design inference · unsourced
A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.
03
On this synth & chain
inferred · rendition design
No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.
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Listen → improve → revise
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Research & revision history · 3 saved events

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Stated reason: Research Kavinsky's signature pad sounds. Create one pad 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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Kavinsky Nightdrive Pad

A dark, wide, slow-blooming analog string-pad in the Kavinsky / OutRun idiom: detuned saws through a slowly opening low-pass filter, thick stereo chorus, sustaining minor chords under the pulsing bass and vocoder.

Class: poly — chords / stacked voices
Category: Pad
Sound id: signature-kavinsky-pad
Requested as: "Kavinsky signature pad"

Identity

What it is. The harmonic bed under Kavinsky's night-drive tracks: a polyphonic analog string-pad that holds minor chords for bars at a time while a sequenced bass pulses in eighths beneath it. It lives in the middle register (chords voiced roughly C3–C5), dark and warm rather than glassy, smeared wide by stereo chorus. In the arrangement it is the glue between the bass and the vocoder or lead, and it carries the melancholy the whole style trades on.

Documented traits (audible on the records): slow attack, long sustain and release, warm slightly detuned analog-poly character (Juno/Jupiter family rather than digital), heavy chorus width, almost always minor-key harmony.

Inferred (labelled, not a claim about the original patch): the specific oscillator mix, filter cutoff, envelope times and LFO settings given in The Sound are this pack's reconstruction of the idiom. 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: sawtooth-based analog poly with detune/chorus width. Inferred: two saws per voice detuned about ±8–12 cents; where a synth has only one oscillator per voice, add a square sub-oscillator at −1 octave around 30–40 % and a touch of PWM for movement.
Filter — documented: dark, low-pass, never fizzy. Inferred: 24 dB low-pass (12 dB on Juno-style designs), cutoff at rest ≈ 900 Hz–1.5 kHz, resonance 10–15 %, keyboard tracking ≈ 50 %, filter-envelope amount +20–30 % so the tone opens a little on each chord.
Amplifier envelope — documented: slow bloom, long tail. Inferred: attack 400–800 ms, decay ≈ 1 s, sustain 85–100 %, release 1.2–2 s.
Filter envelope — inferred: attack 600 ms–1.2 s, decay ≈ 2 s, sustain ≈ 60 %, release ≈ 1.5 s.
LFO — inferred: slow triangle (0.2–0.5 Hz) to cutoff at small depth for bar-length drift; a 5 Hz triangle to pitch only under the modwheel.
Chorus — documented: essential to the width. Use the synth's stereo chorus (both stages if it has them) or the studio's downstream chorus.
Voicing — close-position minor triads and minor-7ths, root doubled by the bass line; chords overlap by about a beat on changes.

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History & Provenance

Kavinsky is Vincent Belorgey (Paris, b. 1975). Teddy Boy EP (2006) and 1986 EP (2007) on Record Makers set the persona — a driver who crashed his Testarossa in 1986 and returns as a zombie making music. Nightcall (2010) was co-produced with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and mixed by SebastiAn; its placement in Drive (2011) carried the sound worldwide. The album OutRun (2013) — named for the 1986 Sega arcade game — and Reborn (2022) extend the same palette.

The pad idiom descends from 1980s film and Italo-disco practice: Juno-106 / Jupiter-8 style polysynth strings through chorus, as heard in Tangerine Dream and Harold Faltermeyer scores and in Giorgio Moroder productions.

Gear note (inferred, unverified): there is no confirmed patch sheet or instrument list for Kavinsky's pads; Roland-family analog polys or their software emulations are the widely assumed source, and this pack does not claim an exact original patch.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Heard In · Adapted By

Kavinsky — Nightcall (2010): the chord bed under the vocoder verse and chorus.
Kavinsky — Prelude, Blizzard, Deadcruiser, Endless — OutRun (2013).
Kavinsky — Renegade, Zenith — Reborn (2022), with a more modern polish.
College & Electric Youth — A Real Hero (2010): sibling pad idiom on the Drive soundtrack.
Cliff Martinez — Drive score (2011): the slower, more ambient cousin.
Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and the wider synthwave wave (2012 onward) adapt the same bed.

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Performance & Technique

Played as sustained block chords; the expression is in the filter and the overlaps rather than in the fingers.

control	gesture	effect
velocity	low or no sensitivity; play evenly	pad stays level, no pumping between chords
modwheel	ease in over a phrase	5 Hz vibrato plus a small cutoff lift (inferred)
aftertouch	lean into a held chord	slight cutoff opening (inferred)
filter cutoff automation	rise slowly over 8–16 bars into a chorus	the classic OutRun build
sustain / overlap	let each chord ring about a beat into the next	chorus smear across changes
voicing	close-position minor triads / minor-7ths, C3–C5	the dark, melancholy colour

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

FX & Chain

Stereo chorus (essential; both stages on a Juno-style unit).
Gentle tape or analog saturation for warmth.
Long plate or hall reverb, 2–4 s decay, 20–40 ms pre-delay.
Optional dotted-eighth stereo delay, low in the mix.
High-pass around 120 Hz so the pad stays out of the bass.
Light sidechain ducking against the kick, in keeping with the compressed, pumping feel of SebastiAn's OutRun mixes (inferred practice, not a documented chain).

research: 0/100 · unsourced (recall)

Renditions

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

Behringer DeepMind 12 — "Nightdrive Pad (DeepMind)" — confidence high — 28 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 900 ms, D 2 s, S 60 %, R 1.5 s. The onboard chorus (both stages) is enabled from the FX menu, not the panel.
Arturia MatrixBrute — "Nightdrive Pad (MatrixBrute para)" — confidence medium — 52 control(s) — Three-voice paraphonic only: play triads, not four-note chords; one shared ladder filter and envelope pair means every chord change blooms together and tails smear on release. Paraphonic voice mode and the LFO1-to-cutoff modulation-matrix route are set by hand (not in the panel spec).
Korg MS-20 Mini — "Nightdrive Pad (MS-20 single voice)" — best-effort — confidence low — 21 control(s) — Monosynth: no chords. Play the pad as slow arpeggiated single notes or a held root while the chord is supplied elsewhere; the shared EG2 drives both filter and VCA so the filter bloom follows the amp; the wide stereo chorus must come from the studio FX.
Behringer Neutron — "Nightdrive Pad (Neutron dyad)" — confidence medium — 25 control(s) — Two-voice paraphonic only: play dyads (root + fifth or root + third), not full triads; one shared filter and VCA so both notes bloom together; the chorus width must come from the studio FX.
Korg Prologue 8 — "Nightdrive Pad (Prologue)" — confidence high — 44 control(s) — The mod-effect type (chorus vs ensemble) is chosen from the effect menu, not the panel; the Prologue's 2-pole VCF leaves the top a touch brighter than the 24 dB target, so keep cutoff low.
Behringer UB-Xa — "Nightdrive Pad (UB-Xa)" — confidence high — 36 control(s) — No onboard chorus: the stereo width comes from the studio's chorus downstream.

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

ON

PERF LFO

RATE

—

TEMPO SYNC

—

WAVEFORM

—

DEPTH

—

CONTROL

PORTAMENTO

0%

BEND

—

UNISON

OFF

VOICES

—

OSC 1

FREQUENCY

—

saw

ON

pulse

OFF

tri

OFF

VOICE DETUNE

10 cents

OSC 1 / LFO INVERT

—

OSC 2

FREQUENCY

—

saw

ON

pulse

OFF

tri

OFF

OSC 2 DETUNE

+8 cents

SYNC

OFF

PW / MOD ROUTING

PULSE WIDTH

—

FREQ

—

F-ENV PW

—

MOD FILTER

—

FILTER

FREQUENCY

38%

RESONANCE

12%

MODULATION

25%

NOISE

0%

OSC 1

ON

HALF

OFF

OSC 2

ON

FULL

ON

4 POLE

4-pole

TRACK

ON

FILTER ENVELOPE

ATTACK

900 ms

DECAY

2000 ms

SUSTAIN

60%

RELEASE

1500 ms

MOD 1 DELAY

—

MOD 1 ATTACK

—

TRIG POINT

—

LOUDNESS ENVELOPE

ATTACK

600 ms

DECAY

1000 ms

SUSTAIN

90%

RELEASE

1500 ms

MOD 2 DELAY

—

MOD 2 ATTACK

—

PEDAL RELEASE

—

MODULATION

LFO RATE

0.3 Hz

OSC 1

—

OSC 2

—

FREQ

0%

FILTER

8%

MOD DEPTH 1

—

WAVEFORM

triangle

TEMPO SYNC

—

QUANTIZE

—

INVERT

—

TRACK

—

MOD LFO PHASE

—

VOLUME

—

DEPTH 2

—

PERF LFO PHASE

—

PERFORMANCE LFO

WAVEFORM

—

OSC 1

—

OSC 2

—

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 Nightdrive Pad

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 Nightdrive Pad

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