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White Noise Sweep FX

Sounds like: A pure noise sweep with no pitch, opening or closing like a whoosh.

Sound type: fx · Genre: Techno, House · Style: classic filtered white-noise transition sweep

A pure filtered-noise sweep, no pitched oscillator at all — the filter itself moving from closed to open (or vice versa) is the entire sound, a foundational transition element.

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Digitone II

Exact match: WAVETONE noise section

SYN page 1 · WAVETONE

SYN page 2 · WAVETONE

SYN page 3 · WAVETONE (noise)

FLTR page 1 · Multi-mode

AMP page

FX page

Digitone II's WAVETONE machine (select with FUNC+SYN). Both oscillators are at LEV 0, so the sound is pure noise from page 3 (NLEV 100, TYPE GRAIN, CHAR 0 = white noise, wide band). The filter movement is the entire sound.

Syntakt

Exact match: SY RAW NLEV noise level

SYN — SY RAW

FLTR PAGE 1

AMP PAGE 1

SY RAW's NLEV pushed to its maximum is the closest real noise source on Syntakt's digital tracks, with WAV2 silenced (LEV2 0) to keep the tone as noise-dominant as this machine allows -- a small amount of WAV1's own tone is still present underneath, since SY RAW has no fader to fully silence its base oscillator. FLTR PAGE 1 sweeps open over the rise via a long ATK and strong positive ENV.

Novation Summit

Exact match: Pure filtered-noise sweep

MIXER

FILTER

AMP ENVELOPE

Summit's MIXER has a real dedicated Noise oscillator, used here as the entire sound with Osc 1 silenced. FILTER's SOURCE/ENV DEPTH route the Amp Envelope into the filter cutoff too -- one long-Attack envelope shapes both the amplitude fade-in and the filter sweep together, holding at full Sustain once open rather than falling away.

Arturia MiniFreak

Exact match: Pure filtered-noise sweep

OSCILLATOR

ANALOG FILTER

ENVELOPE

DIGITAL EFFECTS · FX1

Osc 1 is Noise: Wave is the noise Type (particle through white to metallic), Timbre is the Rate and Shape is the Balance with a tonal wave. Noise is the entire sound here, no pitched oscillator involved. This is the documented cross-reference mechanism for filter movement on MiniFreak: since there's only one Envelope (hardwired to the VCA), routing its output into the Filter's own ENV/VELO knob gets the cutoff to open in step with the amp fade-in, with no second envelope required. Values are on MiniFreak's native 0-100 scale.

Dreadbox Typhon

Approximation: No noise source: heavily detuned VCO pair

FRONT PANEL

FILTER ADSR

AMP ADSR

No dedicated noise source exists on Typhon -- a heavily detuned VCO pair (wide TUNE 2 offset) is a genuine approximation, not a true noise generator. FILTER ADSR and AMP ADSR share the same long ATTACK so the filter sweep and the amplitude fade-in move together, holding at full SUSTAIN once open rather than falling away.

ASM Hydrasynth Desktop

Exact match: Pure filtered-noise sweep

MIXER

FILTER 1

ENVELOPE 1

ENVELOPE 2

REVERB

Hydrasynth's MIXER has a real dedicated Noise generator, used here as the entire sound. Envelope 1 (pre-wired to Filter 1) and Envelope 2 (pre-wired to the Amp) share the same long Attack so the filter sweep and the amplitude fade-in move together, holding at full Sustain once open.

How the synths compare

Same noise-source considerations as Filtered Noise Pad: Digitone II (WAVETONE noise), Syntakt, Summit, MiniFreak and Hydrasynth (firmware-dependent) use a real noise source; Typhon approximates it.

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.