I created this patch today by starting with a typical string setting on the synth that I can’t keep my hands off of late, reworking the envelopes, and adding a slow, resonant filter sweep. After playing with it a or a while it reminds me a little bit of a sitar sound, which is coincidental because I was listening to Ravi Shankar records shortly after making the patch.
String Patch Modified with Filter Sweep
It really does sound like a sitar. Perhaps with tambura underneath even.
This was purely an accident. I imagine that if I try I could make something much more representative, but where’s the fun in that? ;)