Bicep Filter Riser Macro FX

Sounds like: A rising sweep that opens and gets more intense as you turn one knob.

Sound type: fx · Genre: Melodic Techno, Trance, Breakbeat / Jungle · Style: Bicep-style live filter-sweep build/riser FX

A live filter-sweep riser — one control sweeps the filter from closed to fully open, with resonance rising alongside it, over a single held note. The classic build-up gesture, driven by hand rather than a fixed automated envelope.

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Digitone II

Approximation: No macro: p-locks across a pattern

SYN page 1

• ALGO: 1
• RATIO C: 1.00
• MIX: -64

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

• LEV (A): 0
• LEV (B): 0

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

• FREQ: 20
• RESO: 30
• TYPE: 0 (LP)

AMP page

• ATK: 0
• DEC: 0
• SUS: 110
• REL: 100
• MODE: ADSR

No live macro knob. The honest equivalent is p-locking FLTR FREQ and RESO rising together across a pattern's steps (roughly FREQ 20/RESO 30 at the build's start toward FREQ 120/RESO 90 at its peak) to fake the live sweep gesture — this has to be programmed in advance, not played. 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

Approximation: No macro: p-locks across a pattern

SYN — SY RAW

• WAV1: Saw
• TUNE: 64

FLTR PAGE 1

• FREQ: 20
• RESO: 30
• TYPE: Lowpass

AMP PAGE 1

• ATK: 0
• DEC: 0
• SUS: 110
• REL: 100

AMP PAGE 2

• MODE: ADSR

Compared with other synths: Same p-lock approximation as Digitone II — no live knob exists here either.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Mod Wheel drives cutoff and resonance via the Mod Matrix

OSCILLATOR 1

• WAVE: Sawtooth
• RANGE: 8'

FILTER

• SHAPE: LP
• FREQUENCY: 20
• RESONANCE: 30

AMP ENVELOPE

• ATTACK: 0
• DECAY: 0
• SUSTAIN: 110
• RELEASE: 100

MODULATION MATRIX

• Slot 1 sA: ModWheel
• Slot 1 Destin: FiltFreq
• Slot 1 Depth: +50
• Slot 2 sA: ModWheel
• Slot 2 Destin: Filt Res
• Slot 2 Depth: +30

Live control: one control, the Mod Wheel, sweeps cutoff and resonance together because it drives both through two Mod Matrix slots (each slot has its own Depth).

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: M1 macro drives cutoff and resonance

OSCILLATOR · Osc 1

• TYPE: BasicWaves
• WAVE (Morph): 50 (pure sawtooth)
• TIMBRE (Sym): 0
• SHAPE (Sub): 0
• VOLUME: 100

ANALOG FILTER

• TYPE: Low Pass
• CUTOFF: 20
• RESONANCE: 30

ENVELOPE

• ATTACK: 0
• DECAY: 0
• SUSTAIN: 100
• RELEASE: 100

Macros

• M1: Analog Filter Cutoff (+70) and Resonance (+40) together: one macro, two of its four destination slots

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). Macros: M1: Analog Filter Cutoff (+70) and Resonance (+40) together: one macro, two of its four destination slots. Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Dreadbox Typhon

Exact match: Mod wheel drives several targets

FRONT PANEL

• WAVE: ~9 o'clock (VCO1 saw, VCO2 off)
• CUTOFF: start ~7 o'clock (low), swept live toward ~5 o'clock (high)
• RESON: start ~9 o'clock (low), swept live toward ~2 o'clock (high)

AMP ADSR

• ATTACK: 0
• DECAY: 0
• SUSTAIN: 100
• RELEASE: 100

MENU · Mod wheel

• Target 1: CUT: +60
• Target 2: RES: +35

Typhon has no macro system, but its Menu > Mod wheel lets one control (the mod wheel) drive several targets, each with its own amount, so one gesture moves them together: CUT +60, RES +35.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: One macro sweeps cutoff and resonance

OSCILLATOR 1

• MODE: Single
• WAVE: Saw

FILTER 1

• TYPE: LP Ldr12
• CUTOFF: 20.0
• RESONANCE: 30.0

ENVELOPE 2

• ATTACK: 0 ms
• DECAY: 0 ms
• SUSTAIN: 110.0
• RELEASE: 1000 ms

Macros

• Macro 1: Filter 1 Cutoff + Filter 1 Resonance together — assign both to Macro 1 in MACRO ASSIGN

A genuine multi-destination Macro (assigned in MACRO ASSIGN, up to 8 destinations per Macro) — one knob sweeps cutoff and resonance together for the build.

How the synths compare

Novation Summit and ASM Hydrasynth Desktop can genuinely assign one macro to multiple destinations, the literal realization. Arturia MiniFreak has real macros but as two separate single-destination controls. Dreadbox Typhon has no macro system, but its always-visible physical Cutoff and Resonance knobs mean it's actually the easiest of the non-macro synths to perform this live, by hand, two-handed. Digitone II and Syntakt have neither a macro system nor an always-visible relevant knob, so both fall back to a pattern-programmed p-lock rather than anything performable live.

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.