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Analog Filtered Pluck

Sounds like: A soft, round, warm pluck with no metallic edge.

Sound type: pluck · Genre: House, Minimal House · Style: short, filtered analog pluck without FM/metallic edge

The analog counterpart to Classic FM Pluck — a short, filtered pluck built purely from subtractive synthesis, warmer and rounder than the FM version.

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Digitone II

Exact match: Subtractive pluck with a fast-closing filter

SYN page 1

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

ALGO 1 keeps this a single, plain, unmodulated carrier -- no FM edge at all, the direct counterpart to Classic FM Pluck's ALGO 8 modulator setup on this same synth. All the character comes from the FLTR page's fairly strong ENV depth pulling the cutoff shut quickly. ALGO 1 routes operator A (and B) into carrier C, so LEV (A) and LEV (B) are set to 0 on SYN page 2 and MIX is -64 (the X output, C only): that leaves C a plain, unmodulated carrier.

Syntakt

Exact match: Subtractive pluck with a fast-closing filter

SYN — SY RAW

FLTR PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 1

A very natural, idiomatic patch for Syntakt -- SY RAW's plain saw plus a fast-closing FLTR envelope is exactly the subtractive-only pluck this concept wants, no digital-machine animation needed.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Subtractive pluck with a fast-closing filter

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER

AMP ENVELOPE

the Amp Envelope is routed into FILTER's SOURCE to close the cutoff on the same fast timescale as the amplitude fade -- one envelope shapes both here since the patch doesn't need them to move independently.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Subtractive pluck with a fast-closing filter

OSCILLATOR

ANALOG FILTER

ENVELOPE

Osc 1 is BasicWaves with Morph at 50 (pure sawtooth): the Morph knob runs from a square (0) through a sawtooth (50) to a double sawtooth an octave up (100), Sym only changes the pulse width below 50, and Sub adds a sine an octave down (0 here). Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Dreadbox Typhon

Exact match: Subtractive pluck with a fast-closing filter

FRONT PANEL

FILTER ADSR

AMP ADSR

Very direct fit for Typhon's simple analog voice -- a plain VCO1 saw and a fast-closing filter is exactly what its front panel is built for. Clock positions describe the physically unmarked knobs; the ADSR pages use the same 0-100 convention as every other Typhon screen parameter.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Subtractive pluck with a fast-closing filter

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER 1

ENVELOPE 1

AMP

ENVELOPE 2

LP Fat24 is the compensated ladder type -- bass content doesn't thin out as resonance rises, unlike the plain Ldr types -- which suits this patch's 'warmer and rounder' brief better than a plain ladder filter would. Envelope 1 is pre-wired to Filter 1 and Envelope 2 to Amp, so both close together on the same fast timescale.

How the synths compare

The subtractive counterpart to Classic FM Pluck — this one translates most naturally to the analog-only synths (Syntakt, Typhon) where FM Pluck required the most compromise.

Patchpad is a free reference of drum patterns and synth patches written for real hardware: Digitakt II, Digitone II, Syntakt, Novation Summit, Arturia MiniFreak, Dreadbox Typhon and ASM Hydrasynth Desktop.