Try some reverb on the subbass.
Nah man donāt do this it tends to muddy the sub, some saturation is ok though.
Iād at least try it if youāre going for size. I find sub sounds a bit cartoony without reverb.
I guess if you EQ it right it would sound ok
I use the āWarm Up Lowsā saturator in Ableton but only have the drive at about 0.5db otherwise the sub can sound too apparant, good for extra harmonics
Also, making a power chord sounds pretty fat. That is set oscillators to 0, +7 and +12, the top ones tuned a little flat.
I think the effectiveness of this depends on how much reverb youāre using on the rest of the track.
Make sure your sine wave is retriggering each time, and that the osc is not free running. This will start the note at a 0 point in the y axis of the sine wave.
Work with your attack and release settings in your synth.
Then eq out any remaining click sound. Should have little to no effect on the sine itself.
May want to try a limiter if the attack of the sub is too slow due to attack settings, but shouldnāt be necessary.
If you want a titanium hard solid sub check out Sytrus. And check out flās features to do portamento, it is beyond the midi speck. Not gonna help you if youāre outside of fl though. 
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Heās using Ableton. Analog can portamento, not sure about Operator.
Maybe a bit of vibrato and/or tremolo for interest.
fl has special slide capabilities in the piano roll. It isnāt traditional portamento. More like controllable slides. But Sytrus is available as a vst, so can be used in live.
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Yeah, youāll need to use the pitch bend wheel for that.
Thats not the best idea since such low frequencies in the stereo field will destroy your power
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Iām not dead sure about reverbing the sub either. NoT saying u canāt. Its a free world and Iām sure in some cases it works well. Bass guitar sounds great with room ambience
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Uhhh just put a fourth order low pass at 200hz?
Yeah, Iāve kind of changed my mind about the reverb thing.
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Thatās probably because bass guitar includes much more higher harmonics than a clean sine wave
Iām kinda confused about answers people are giving hereā¦
Didnāt you have a problem with clicks & pops?
I donāt know if itās just Operator in your case (since Iām not on Ableton), but Iāve had similar problems with ES2 in Logic. Setting the phase knob to 0/setting OSC start to soft is one thing. What I just usually do is to set the polyphony to legato, and set portamento to something like 1, so it glides from note to note = no clicks, but portamento is so low you donāt really notice it. If thereās any clicks remaining in the end, I just do some surgical audio editing after bouncing out the whole bassline.
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HOLY CRAPā¦just using a gate to trigger a separated sub bassā¦.FACEPALMā¦. That is amazingly awesome and yet SIMPLE information. Gatesā¦so they do have a use huh?
Gates are glory.
Reverb: if diffusion and width are kept low while room size is increased, sub gets a bit more presence imo