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Detuned Unison Arp Pulse

Sounds like: A wide, chorused chord that pulses rhythmically rather than washing together.

Sound type: arp · Genre: Trance, Melodic Techno · Style: wide detuned chord pulsing through an arpeggiator

A wide, chorused chord pulsing rhythmically through the arpeggiator: two detuned voices per note give width and movement, while a moderate gate keeps the pulse rhythmically defined rather than smearing into a wash.

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Digitone II

Exact match: ALGO 3 carriers detuned with DTUN, arpeggiated

SYN page 1

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

ARPEGGIATOR menu

Hold a wide chord (root, fifth, octave) so RANGE 2 has real material to spread across. ALGO 3 with DTUN 10 detunes carrier B against carrier C (the same mechanism Reese Bass uses), giving each arpeggiated note its own built-in beating width rather than a single clean oscillator. N.LEN 70 lets consecutive notes overlap slightly for a pulsing rather than staccato feel. ALGO 3 routes A and B into C, so LEV (A) and LEV (B) are set to 0 on SYN page 2 and MIX is -64 (the X output, C only).

Syntakt

Approximation: No arpeggiator, and detune needs a second layered track

SYN — SY CHIP (Track A)

SYN — SY RAW (Track B, detune layer)

FLTR PAGE 1 (both tracks)

AMP PAGE 1 (both tracks)

AMP PAGE 2 (both tracks)

Syntakt has no general per-track arpeggiator, so SY CHIP on Track A supplies the arpeggio (OF2/OF3 build the root-fifth-octave shape); for the detune width, layer a second track (SY RAW, Track B) tuned a handful of units sharp and set it to play the same notes as Track A. This is an honest two-layer approximation, not a single-voice equivalent of the arp-plus-detune combination the other synths give natively.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Two detuned oscillators, arpeggiated

OSCILLATOR 1

OSCILLATOR 2

MIXER

FILTER

AMP ENVELOPE

ARPEGGIATOR

Hold a wide chord (root, fifth, octave) so Octaves 2 has real material to spread across. Two real oscillators detuned against each other (Osc 2's FINE +16 cents against Osc 1) beat naturally, giving every arpeggiated note its own width. Gate 80 keeps notes overlapping enough to pulse rather than sitting as short discrete hits.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Two detuned oscillators, arpeggiated

OSCILLATOR · Osc 1

OSCILLATOR · Osc 2

ANALOG FILTER

ENVELOPE

ARPEGGIATOR

Hold a wide chord (root, fifth, octave) so Octave Range 2 has real material to spread across. Osc 1 and Osc 2 are both BasicWaves pure sawtooth; detune Osc 2 a few cents sharp of Osc 1 in the global Tune/Detune section for the beating width, rather than trying to fake it from one oscillator. Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Dreadbox Typhon

Approximation: No arpeggiator: hand-programmed step sequencer

FRONT PANEL

NOTE SEQUENCER (SQNCR button)

Typhon has no arpeggiator, but it has a real note sequencer (SQNCR button: 1 to 32 steps over a 6-octave range, with per-step octave, note, gate, velocity, plus probability, division and swing). Typhon's own two VCOs (WAVE knob blending VCO1/VCO2, TUNE 2 detuning VCO2 sharp of VCO1) give the same beating width mechanism used elsewhere in this library, so the detune here is genuine, only the sequencing is a hand-programmed substitute. The Filter and Amp ADSR shape each note.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Two detuned oscillators, arpeggiated

OSCILLATOR 1

OSCILLATOR 2

MIXER

FILTER 1

ENVELOPE 2

ARPEGGIATOR

Hold a wide chord (root, fifth, octave) so Octave 2 has real material to spread across. Two true independent oscillators: Osc 2's CENTS +16 against Osc 1 gives the beating width on every arpeggiated note, the same mechanism as the other real-oscillator synths here.

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