I found that Sequential Prophet rev2 module would be better choice.
Suggest what else to see please.
Preferable without a keyboard, without an internal sequencer and which can be controlled via Digitakt.
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seems like the perfect fit, but I want Wavetable synth, have already Digitone
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What are you looking for that Digitone and samples in the Digitakt can’t give you? What’s your budget? What does “dub” mean to you?
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Digitone is awesome for dub chords sampled and filtered thru Heat into digitakt.
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Digitakt can probably make great dub chords.
I’ve coaxed some decent ones (to my ears) out of the Model:Cycles and the Volca FM too. But I really think you can do it with damn near anything.
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“Dub” is in the post-performance production: the mixing, the effects, the re-contextualising. The 70s dub chords came from guitars, pianos and organs playing in straight reggae, processed through a mixing desk, tape, delays and so on. So, you could make a “dub chord” out of any chord, by processing it.
If you mean “dub techno”… you want something grainy, or saw-toothy - someting with a lot of harmonics and texture, that you can filter, and run into delays and reverbs. Try a Nymphes and a Polymoon pedal (to pick two almost at random). Or go for a box designed almost exclusively for dub chords: a Zen Delay.
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you can make dub chords with just about any poly synth or sampler (i use the a4/dt for hardware and a variety of soft synths). it’s way more about how they’re creatively processed than the raw sound.
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For dub techno the classic choice would be a Prophet 5 but it’d be crazy to buy one just for that because, as others have said, lots of synths can do a good job of it. You could even get Repro-5 and sample a load of variations to go at it from another direction.
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Like others have said its impossible to say. Part of dub chords is putting your own twist on it. I have seen guys make insane dub chords out of a saxophone sample. Personally some of my favorites came from using the Deepmind. But then I got a Take5 and loved making them with that.
Honestly a lot of amazing dub chords came from samplers. And the Octatrack is an amazing option for this.
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Roland Juno’s were used a lot for dub techno, especially that hollow filtered woody type.
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I’m using Digitone but don’t like FM synthesizing of dub-chords, for me it works fine for the rest of sounds of dub techno such as textures, sfx etc… I used to make dub chords in Artruria Pigments where they are sounds perfect, so I want some same wavetable synth. I think 1700$ is max price.
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may be someone knows the same synth but wavetable?
Spend these 1700$ in a mixer, a delay and a reverb. Or two. Any synth will do!
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I don’t know much about wavetable synths, I’m afraid.
Maybe this one?
But I don’t know if it’s the best for “dub” sounds as such
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You can have awesome dub chords by just using a saw-single cycle waveform. Don’t think you need any special synth for it, it either needs to be polyphon or be able to resample.
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Isn’t the Digitakt already a wavetable synth?
Wavetables are samples but calling a sampler a wavetable synth is a bit of a stretch 
I think a JU-06a would be perfect for dub techno.
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literally anything with three oscillators or that will let you play basic tri-chords. this really doesn’t require specialist equipment, with the tiniest bit of effort you can sound like your favourite bits of Deepchord / Basic Channel for literally no money. software will do you fine. the question is, once you’ve got that sound, can you turn it into a worthwhile composition? what of the other elements? how do you evolve it? what’s going to differentiate your track from the dub techno glut of the previous two decades? i really struggle with this
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