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The aftertouch is perfect. I think you nailed that. The sound is very close. But it suffers from the same thing my own attempts suffer from: it's too nice. Too smooth. Not gritty enough. I'm not even sure of the right words to describe what's missing...I want to say the recording has a more granular texture to it. Does that make sense? The recording has that almost-bit-reduced-sample nastiness to it. But this is an awesome base. I can work with this. Thanks so much! Edit: thinking about this, I think maybe I'm expecting too much from the synth? I probably need to look at creating this sound as a combination of synth + channel strip plugins. I think you've given me an excellent base for this approach. Thanks!

I'm a guitar player in a Duran Duran tribute. We're spreading the work load out a bit and trying to get everyone involved in creating backing tracks. I pulled All You Need is Now. It's been an easy go except for one sound: that lead sound Nick uses. Sort of a pivotal sound in the track and it's eluding me. You can hear it here: I'd be very grateful if anyone could help steer me in the right direction. My synth skills are mostly find-a-preset, twiddle-knobs-until-it-fits type skills. This patch sounds almost detuned to me. But I can't find a good patch to start from in the Logic library... Thanks!

@ski: just wanted to say thanks for the patches. I used one to nail the haunting theremin thing Nick Rhodes has going on in the background of Leave a Light On, off the new Duran Duran album. Worked perfectly.