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Portamento Slide Bass

Sounds like: A bass that slides between notes, the classic acid and electro glide.

Sound type: bass · Genre: Acid House, Electro · Style: glide/legato bass sliding between notes, classic acid/electro phrasing

A monophonic bass where notes glide into each other rather than jumping — the slide itself is the character, so this patch depends on legato/glide being enabled in the sequencer or played live.

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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. Choose LEGATO ONLY when you want held notes to connect and new notes to retrigger the glide from where the last one ended. 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: 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). Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Compared with other synths: The glide itself lives in MiniFreak's voice-mode/performance settings, not in any page documented here — set the voice mode to Mono/Legato with Glide enabled so held notes slide into each other, exactly as every other synth in this library flags for the same patch.

Dreadbox Typhon

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

FRONT PANEL

FILTER ADSR

AMP ADSR

SET

SET's own VCO GLIDE knob is the dedicated portamento-rate control — set to a short-medium value here. Typhon's monophonic/paraphonic voicing suits slide bass naturally, no extra legato-mode step needed beyond enabling glide.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Legato notes with glide

OSCILLATOR 1

VOICE

FILTER 1

AMP

ENVELOPE 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. Envelope 1 and 2 keep a short decay so each slid note still reads as a bass pluck.

How the synths compare

The oscillator/filter settings are secondary here — the defining feature is glide time and legato mode, which must be set at the sequencer/voice level on every synth, not just in the patch settings.

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.