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Bonobo Envelope Swell Bass

Sounds like: A warm, round bass that fades up from silence instead of hitting hard.

Sound type: bass · Genre: Downtempo, Trip-Hop · Style: Bonobo-style warm, organic swelling bass

A warm, slow-swelling bass with no attack transient at all — the note fades up smoothly from silence rather than plucking in, an organic, non-percussive low end built entirely from a long attack envelope.

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Digitone II

Exact match: Slow-swelling bass with no attack transient

SYN page 1

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

AMP page's ATK pushed to 90 is the entire character — no click or pluck at all, just a slow rise from silence. FLTR's own ATK is matched so the tone brightens in step with the volume swell, rather than starting already bright and only getting louder. 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: Slow-swelling bass with no attack transient

SYN — SY RAW

FLTR PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 2

AMP PAGE 2's MODE must be set to ADSR — AHD has no real sustain phase, and this patch depends on SUS 110 holding steady while the note is held, not decaying away.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Slow-swelling bass with no attack transient

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER

MOD ENVELOPE 1

AMP ENVELOPE

MODULATION MATRIX

Two genuinely independent envelopes (filter via Mod Env 1, amp via its own Amp Envelope) both given long attacks so the brightening and the loudening swell happen together, not one lagging the other. Live control: the Mod Wheel lengthens the amp Attack and opens the filter together through two Mod Matrix slots.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Slow-swelling bass with no attack transient

OSCILLATOR · Osc 1

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.

Compared with other synths: MiniFreak's single Envelope is hardwired to the VCA, so ATTACK 80 alone gives the full slow swell directly — no separate filter envelope to coordinate, simpler than Summit/Digitone II's two-envelope approach but reaching the same result.

Dreadbox Typhon

Exact match: Slow-swelling bass with no attack transient

FRONT PANEL

FILTER ADSR

AMP ADSR

Both FILTER TIME and AMP TIME on the front panel are set slow, not just centered — a high ATTACK value on the ADSR page alone can still play back quickly if the TIME multiplier knob is left fast, so both need to cooperate for a genuinely slow swell here.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Slow-swelling bass with no attack transient

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER 1

ENVELOPE 2

Envelope 2 (pre-wired to Amp) uses a real 1200ms attack — a genuine millisecond value rather than an abstracted 0-127 number, so the swell time here can be set precisely.

How the synths compare

The entire character of this patch is the attack stage — every synth's amp (and, where independent, filter) envelope gets an unusually long attack rather than the near-instant attack most patches in this library use. Dreadbox Typhon needs its FILTER TIME/AMP TIME knobs set slow too, or the detailed ADSR values get scaled back up to a faster real speed than intended.

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.