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Portamento Glide Lead

Sounds like: A lead where notes slide into each other instead of jumping.

Sound type: lead · Genre: Acid House, Electro · Style: smooth pitch-slide lead phrasing, acid/electro style

A monophonic lead where glide between notes is the entire character — the melodic equivalent of Portamento Slide Bass, played higher and generally with a brighter tone.

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Digitone II

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

SYN page 1

SYN page 2 · Operators A & B

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

TRIG page 2

Portamento is set on TRIG page 2: PORT turns it on and PTIM sets the glide time. In the track's SETUP menu, PORTAMENTO TYPE decides what glides: TRACK glides from the last note played on the track, and LEGATO ONLY glides only between overlapping notes. GLIDE style is an ordinary continuous slide; GLISSANDO quantizes it to semitones. Everything else is a plain, unaggressive carrier so the glide stays the focus. FDBK acts on operator A in ALGO 1, so LEV (A) is raised to 50 on SYN page 2 to let the feedback colour carrier C; LEV (B) stays 0 and MIX -64 selects the C output only.

Syntakt

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

SYN — SY RAW

FLTR PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 2

TRIG page 1

Portamento is on TRIG page 1: PORT turns it on and PTIM sets the glide time. In the track's SETUP menu, LEGATO ONLY ON makes the pitch glide only between overlapping notes, and STYLE GLIDE is the ordinary continuous slide (GLISSANDO quantizes it to semitones). Melodic tracks use Digital machines, not Analog. AMP PAGE 2's MODE must be ADSR or SUS on AMP PAGE 1 is ignored.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

VOICE

OSCILLATOR 1

FILTER

MOD ENVELOPE 1

AMP ENVELOPE

Glide is in the VOICE section: choose a monophonic Voice Mode (Mono or MonoLG; MonoLG glides only between overlapping legato notes, while Mono always glides between successive notes), turn Glide On, and set Glide Time short-to-medium. On the AMP ENVELOPE menu, MonoTrig Legato stops the envelope re-triggering on overlapping notes, which only works in the Mono or MonoLG modes.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

OSCILLATOR

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). MiniFreak's monophonic Legato/Glide performance mode is exactly what this patch needs -- a real performance-setting requirement, not a synthesis parameter. Set Glide/Portamento time short-medium from the performance settings alongside monophonic Legato. 0-100 scale for the synthesis values above. Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Dreadbox Typhon

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

FRONT PANEL

FILTER ADSR

AMP ADSR

SET

Front-panel knobs are physically unmarked, described by clock position; the OLED pages use the 0-100 convention.

Compared with other synths: The SET page's VCO GLIDE is a real, literal portamento-time parameter -- the most direct 'glide' control of any synth in this library, unlike the others which rely on a global mono/legato performance mode or an uncertain menu location.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

OSCILLATOR 1

VOICE

FILTER 1

ENVELOPE 2

VOICE page 1 sets POLYPHONY to Mono, and page 2 has GLIDE (Off / Glide / Glissando), GLIDE TIME (0-127), GLIDE CURVE (Exp to Lin to Log) and GLIDE LEGATO. With Glide Legato On only notes played legato slide, so detached notes retrigger cleanly. The filter and envelope values are the synthesis side of the patch.

How the synths compare

Melodic-register sibling of Portamento Slide Bass — same performance/sequencer setting requirement (glide + legato) as the primary sound-design element.

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.