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Deep Sub Sine

Sounds like: A pure, deep sub-bass tone: felt more than heard.

Sound type: bass · Genre: Minimal House, Techno · Style: pure, undecorated sine sub used in minimal production

As plain as a bass patch gets on purpose — a single clean sine, no harmonic content, no movement. All the character comes from the notes played, not the patch.

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Digitone II

Exact match: Plain sine

SYN page 1

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

ALGO 1 with only Operator C active and no modulator level at all gives a pure, unmodulated sine — the whole point of this patch is that no other FM/filter/effects settings should color it. 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: Plain sine

SYN — SY RAW

FLTR PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 2

SY RAW's WAV1 has a genuine plain sine among its six real waveforms, so this is a direct match — no need to approximate. MODE must be ADSR for the Sustain to hold.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Plain sine

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER

AMP ENVELOPE

As simple as this patch gets on any synth here — Summit's Sine wave, a fully open Filter, and a plain Amp Envelope with no other page touched.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Plain sine

OSCILLATOR

ANALOG FILTER

ENVELOPE

Osc 1 is SuperWave used as a clean sine: Detune and the copies' volume are both 0, so it is a single sine wave. Everything downstream is deliberately left inert — no LFO, no Mod Matrix, no effects. Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Dreadbox Typhon

Approximation: No pure sine position on the WAVE knob

FRONT PANEL

AMP ADSR

Typhon's WAVE knob has no dedicated pure-sine position — the roundest labeled point on its blend is the closest real equivalent, and some extra harmonic content versus the FM/digital synths here is expected and fine.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Plain sine

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER 1

AMP

ENVELOPE 2

A direct, uncomplicated translation — Hydrasynth's Sine waveform, a wide-open Filter 1, and Envelope 2 (pre-wired to Amp) with a full Sustain.

How the synths compare

This is the intentional 'nothing fancy' baseline bass — useful as a reference point and as the actual sound for minimal productions where restraint is the point.

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.