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Festival Trance Gate Stab

Sounds like: A bright, punchy stab that pulses rapidly in time rather than flowing.

Sound type: arp · Genre: Trance, EDM · Style: festival-style gated arpeggio chord stab

A rhythmic, percussive chord stab built from a wide four-note chord run through the arpeggiator at a fast rate with a very short gate: each note is clipped almost instantly, so it reads as a stabbing pulse rather than a flowing melodic run.

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Digitone II

Exact match: Arpeggiated wide-chord gated stab

SYN page 1

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

ARPEGGIATOR menu

Hold a wide four-note chord (root, fifth, octave, tenth). MODE UP with RANGE 2 spreads it across two octaves, and the very short N.LEN (12) clips each note almost instantly, so the arpeggio reads as a rapid stab pulse rather than a run. Zero SUS and a fast AMP DEC reinforce the percussive close. 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 arpeggiator: SY CHIP note-cycling stands in

SYN — SY CHIP

FLTR PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 2

Syntakt has no general per-track arpeggiator; SY CHIP's built-in note-cycling stands in. OF2/OF3/OF4 (fifth, octave, tenth) build the wide four-note chord against TUNE's root, and DEC kept short gives the same clipped stab as N.LEN on the other machines. SPD syncs the cycling rate to the sequencer.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Arpeggiated wide-chord gated stab

OSCILLATOR 1

MIXER

FILTER

AMP ENVELOPE

ARPEGGIATOR

Real, dedicated Arpeggiator section: hold a wide four-note chord, Type Up with Octaves 2 spreads it across two octaves. Gate 20 (well below the default) is the whole character here, clipping every note into a short stab; press Arp On to engage. Live control: ride the panel Arp Rhythm knob for extra syncopation on a build.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Arpeggiated wide-chord gated stab

OSCILLATOR · Osc 1

ANALOG FILTER

ENVELOPE

ARPEGGIATOR

Hold a wide four-note chord (root, fifth, octave, tenth). 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). Gate 15% keeps every arpeggiated note extremely short and stab-like. 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). Program the pattern's notes directly instead of holding a chord. A very short GATE gives the same clipped stab as the other synths' short arp gate. The Filter and Amp ADSR and the front-panel settings shape each note.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Arpeggiated wide-chord gated stab

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER 1

ENVELOPE 2

ARPEGGIATOR

Hold [SHIFT]+[ON] to enter Arp Edit mode. Mode Up with Octave Mode Up and Range 2 spreads a wide held chord across two octaves. Gate 15% is the whole character: every note clips almost instantly into a stab.

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