All synth patches

Settings for every patch across Digitone II, Syntakt, Novation Summit, Arturia MiniFreak, Dreadbox Typhon and ASM Hydrasynth Desktop, grouped by sound type.

Bass

• Sub-Weight FM Bass – A round, heavy sub with a tiny pitched click on the attack.
• Reese Bass – A wide, growling, beating bass from two voices slightly out of tune.
• Acid 303-Style Bass – Squelchy, snarling bassline where the filter chirps open on every accented note.
• Wobble Bass – A bass where the note stays put and the filter opens and closes in a rhythmic wub-wub.
• Plucky Synth Bass – A short, snappy bass note that closes fast, ideal for syncopated lines.
• Growl Bass – A gritty, distorted, mid-heavy bass that growls forward in the mix.
• FM Bell Bass – A solid low note with a metallic, bell-like clang on top.
• Detuned Analog Stab Bass – A short, wide, slightly wobbly bass stab that hits like a rhythmic accent.
• Deep Sub Sine – A pure, deep sub-bass tone: felt more than heard.
• Talking Bass – A sustained bass that slowly says 'ah-oh' as the filter moves.
• Distorted Techno Bass – A hard, saturated, relentless bass built to lock under a techno kick.
• Liquid DnB Bass – A smooth, warm, rounded bass that sits under a fast breakbeat.
• Electro / Drexciya Bass – A tight, cold, robotic bass with a ringing resonant edge.
• Downtempo Warm Bass – A round, mellow, unhurried bass that fills the low-mids softly.
• Portamento Slide Bass – A bass that slides between notes, the classic acid and electro glide.
• Ambient Drone Bass – A deep, held hum that barely moves, a low bed under everything.
• Percussive Pluck Sub – A very short low thud, more of a transient than a note.
• Metallic FM Clank Bass – An aggressive, clanking bass with an unstable, metallic sound.
• Polysynth Chord Bass – A low chord played as bass, thick and full, used sparingly.
• Broken Beat Filtered Bass – A bouncy, filtered bass where each note snaps at a slightly different brightness.
• Oscillator Sync Growl Bass – A tearing, ripping bass that snarls as the sync sweeps.
• Arpeggiated Octave Bass – A rolling, bouncing bassline that jumps between root, octave and fifth.
• Snappy Envelope Bass – A tight, punchy bass with a quick thwack on each note.
• Tape-Warble Analog Bass – A warm, soft bass whose pitch wavers gently, like old tape.
• Daphni Rolling Arp Bass – A raw, hypnotic two-note bass loop that never lets up.
• Bonobo Envelope Swell Bass – A warm, round bass that fades up from silence instead of hitting hard.

Lead

• Cutting Wavetable Lead – A narrow, bright, slightly unstable lead that cuts through a busy mix.
• Detuned Supersaw Lead – A huge, wide, shimmering lead like a stack of saws, made for anthems.
• Classic Analog Saw Lead – A clean, bright, buzzy saw lead, the all-purpose analog sound.
• Square Wave Chiptune Lead – A hollow, retro, video-game square-wave lead.
• FM Bell Lead – A bright, ringing bell lead that sustains long enough to play a melody.
• Acid Lead – The same squelchy acid sweep, up high: a screaming, resonant lead line.
• PWM Lead – A lead that seems to chorus itself as its pulse width slowly shifts.
• Formant Vocal-ish Lead – A lead with a fixed vowel-like 'aah' quality, slightly voice-like.
• Distorted Techno Lead – A harsh, distorted lead that cuts through a dense techno mix.
• Soft Sine Lead – A gentle, rounded, flute-like lead with no edge.
• Pluck-Lead Hybrid – A quick, lead-like note with a short decay, good for rhythmic melodies.
• Portamento Glide Lead – A lead where notes slide into each other instead of jumping.
• Ring-Mod Metallic Lead – A cold, robotic lead where the pitch feels slightly ambiguous.
• Trip-hop Melancholic Lead – A slow, dark, dusty lead that sounds wistful rather than exciting.
• Breakbeat Stab Lead – A short, punchy chord-like stab that snaps shut, for punctuating breakbeats.
• Microtonal Detuned Lead – A lead that's quietly a little out of tune, in an unsettled way.
• Wavefolded Aggressive Lead – A dense, aggressive, buzzing lead with harsh, folded harmonics.
• Hoover Lead – The classic 90s rave 'hoover': a huge, swooping, snarling detuned stack.
• Sync Lead – A screaming, siren-like lead whose tone tears and shifts as the pitch moves.
• Ambient Bowed Lead – A slow, breathy lead that swells in like a bowed string, with no hard attack.
• Macro-Morphed Lead – A lead that goes from mellow and dark to bright and aggressive with one knob.
• Ring-Mod Bell Lead – A clangorous, gong-like bell lead with an inharmonic ring.
• LFO Siren Lead – A lead that wails up and down like a siren.
• Bicep Euphoric Arp Lead – A bright, driving arpeggio that builds like a rave-ready peak-time moment.
• Boards of Canada Detuned Wavetable Lead – A soft, nostalgic, slightly out-of-tune melody, warm and melancholy.

Pad

• Wide Analog Drift Pad – A slow, wide, gently drifting analog pad that feels alive.
• Dark Ambient Drone Pad – A low, dark, heavy drone that sits under a track and hardly moves.
• Warm String Pad – A lush, ensemble-like string pad that eases in like a bow.
• Glassy Digital Pad – A bright, crystalline, shimmering pad, all sparkle and no weight.
• Choir Vocal Pad – A soft, breathy 'ooh' pad, like a distant choir.
• Filtered Noise Pad – A breathy, airy wash of filtered noise with hardly any pitch.
• Evolving Wavetable Pad – A pad whose tone keeps changing shape as you hold the note.
• Analog Brass-ish Pad – A warm, punchy pad that swells in like a distant brass section.
• Granular Texture Pad – A grainy, fluttering pad that sounds slightly broken into pieces.
• Minor Key Melancholic Pad – A dark, slow, moody pad that suits minor chords.
• Bright Trance Pad – A big, bright, shimmering pad that lifts a section.
• Sub-Reinforced Pad – A mid-range pad with a deep sub layer filling out the low end.
• FM Metallic Pad – A shimmering, cold, metallic pad that blooms slowly.
• Slow Filter-Sweep Pad – A pad that starts dark and slowly opens over several seconds.
• Detuned Unison Pad – A thick, swirling pad that beats and chorus-shimmers with no effects.
• Pluck-Pad Hybrid – A pad with a little plucked click on the front of each note.
• Reverb-Soaked Ambient Wash – Notes that blur completely into one endless, shifting reverb cloud.
• Four Tet-style Organic Pad – A warm, slightly wobbly, folky pad that sounds hand-made.
• Techno Stab Pad – A driven, medium-length chord stab, longer than a pluck and shorter than a pad.
• Field-Recording-Adjacent Textural Pad – A drifting, half-tuned texture that sounds like a processed field recording.
• Arpeggiated Pad Sequence – Slow, overlapping notes cascading up and down in a huge reverb wash.
• Ring-Mod Shimmer Pad – A soft pad with a gentle, shimmering beat running through it.
• Bonobo Warm Macro Pad – A warm, breathing pad that opens up and widens as you turn one knob.
• Four Tet Wavetable Cascade Pad – A pad that tumbles through changing tones like cascading grains.
• Boards of Canada Swell Pad – A slow, mellotron-like wash that fades in with no attack and lingers.

Pluck

• Classic FM Pluck – A bright, glassy, bell-like pluck that decays quickly.
• Garage Chord Stab Pluck – A short chord stab that snaps shut, the skip of UK garage.
• Analog Filtered Pluck – A soft, round, warm pluck with no metallic edge.
• Plucked String Emulation – A bright, quickly fading note reminiscent of a plucked guitar or koto string.
• Marimba-style Pluck – A woody, rounded mallet tap, like a marimba.
• Digital Glassy Pluck – A bright, clean, glassy digital pluck, smoother than a bell.
• Acid Pluck – A short, rubbery squelch: one quick resonant blip per note.
• Techno Percussive Pluck – A tight, dry, drum-like tuned hit that blends into the percussion.
• Kalimba-style Pluck – A soft, warm thumb-piano pluck with a rounded attack.
• Reverse-Attack Pluck – A note that swells up to a peak and cuts off, like a reversed pluck.
• Detuned Unison Pluck – A short, wide, chorused pluck with a lot of body.
• Wavetable Morph Pluck – A short pluck whose tone changes shape as the note fades.
• Muted Analog Pluck – A soft, dull, palm-muted pluck, as if wrapped in a cloth.
• Bright Arp Pluck – A very short, bright tick of a note, built so fast arpeggios stay crisp.
• Sub-Layered Pluck – A bright pluck with a short low thump underneath for weight.
• Metallic Ring-Mod Pluck – A short, cold, clangy plink with an inharmonic ring.
• Minimal Microhouse Pluck – A dry, tight, understated tick of a note for sparse minimal tracks.
• Trip-hop Dusty Pluck – A warm, gritty, lo-fi pluck, like a note sampled from an old record.
• Four Tet-style Organic Pluck – A soft, warm pluck with a touch of wobble in the pitch.
• Electro Robotic Pluck – A cold, resonant, mechanical little plink.
• Oscillator Sync Pluck – A bright, ripping pluck with a harsh, glassy attack.
• Macro Performance Pluck – A pluck that goes from a muted thump to a long, bright ring with one knob.
• Four Tet Ring-Mod Bell Pluck – A bright, kalimba-like bell pluck with a glitchy, glassy edge.
• Daphni Hypnotic Arp Pluck – A relentless, plucky three-note loop that pulls you into a trance.

Fx

• Sub Drop FX – A deep pitch drop into the sub range, felt more than heard.
• Dub Siren FX – A wailing, rising-and-falling siren, like a classic dub soundsystem effect.
• Riser / Uplifter FX – A long rising sweep that builds energy into a drop.
• Downlifter / Impact FX – A long falling sweep that lands on a hard thump at the end.
• White Noise Sweep FX – A pure noise sweep with no pitch, opening or closing like a whoosh.
• Reverse Cymbal Swell FX – A bright, metallic swell that builds up to the downbeat, like a reversed cymbal.
• Vinyl Crackle / Lo-fi Texture FX – A quiet bed of hiss and crackle, like the surface noise of vinyl.
• Sci-fi Zap FX – A very short laser-like zap, a quick pitch flick.
• Granular Glitch FX – A fast, chopped-up, stuttering texture, like sound being shredded.
• Metallic Impact / Hit FX – A single hard hit like struck metal, not a musical note.
• Ambient Drone Swell FX – A wide, slow-building wash of sound that rises and dissolves.
• Filtered Noise Riser FX – A noise sweep with a rising tone underneath, pulling upward into a drop.
• Radio Tuning / Static FX – Crackling, sweeping static, like turning a radio dial between stations.
• Robotic Vocal Chop FX – Stuttering, vowel-like blips that sound like chopped robot speech.
• Techno Percussive Sweep FX – A rhythmic, mechanical filter sweep that pulses with the beat.
• Reverse Reverb Swell FX – A wash that builds up into a moment instead of fading after it.
• Bit-crushed Digital Artifact FX – Harsh, crunchy, broken-sounding digital fuzz, like a corrupted file.
• Alarm / Warning Tone FX – A harsh, pulsing two-tone beep like a warning siren.
• Field-Recording Texture FX – A quiet, organic, ever-shifting background atmosphere.
• Experimental Polyrhythm Click FX – A tiny, pitchless tick, like a metronome click for stacking rhythms.
• Ring-Mod Alien FX – A wobbling, robotic 'alien communicator' sweep.
• Arpeggiated Glitch Sequence FX – A fast, crunchy, stuttering scatter of notes in random order.
• Boards of Canada Tape Wobble FX – A held tone with an uneven, wobbling pitch, like a warped tape.
• Bicep Filter Riser Macro FX – A rising sweep that opens and gets more intense as you turn one knob.

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.