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Create a perky synth patch

The rise of the perky synth is a phenomenon that goes back about eight years or so, with one of its first and most notable iterations being assembled by Clean Bandit. They exploited this sound, and many others like it, in their earlier recordings, which then in turn influenced a raft of similar pop hits.

However, the influence for this sound extends back even further, to house and dance music of the 90s, where similar constructs were widely used, on the hardware synths of the day. But

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