Two new synths from Novation announced

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marcuswitt
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19 Apr 2017

According to https://www.gearnews.com, Notation is about to release two new interesting instruments at the Superbooth 2017 in Berlin, Germany, whereof the first product being 'Peak' in form of an 8-voice polyphonic tabletop synth module and the 'Mono Station' being the 2nd new release, which looks like a cousin of Novation's 'Circuit'. The Brit's are keeping it coming… at least in this particular context there's no Brexit in sight. Right so. ;)

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eXode
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20 Apr 2017

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Novation Peak - Eight-voice polyphonic synthesiser

Specifications:
3 oscillators
1 noise generator
1 ring modulator
2 LFOs
1 Amp envelope and 2 mod envelopes
1 Filter

Waveforms include:
Sine, tri, sawtooth, square / pulse plus 17 wavetables of 5 waveforms per row

Filter
1x State variable OTA filter per voice
12/24dB slope
Low-pass / band-pass / high-pass
Pre-filter overdrive
Post-filter distortion

Key Features:
Two ways to create waveforms
Analogue-sounding NCOs (Numerically-Controlled Oscillators) and 17 digital wavetables.

A colossal amount of distortion
Three distortion points for each voice – pre-filter, post-filter and global – in an analogue signal chain.

Control expression
Peak is capable of receiving polyphonic aftertouch, which puts expression right at your fingertips.

Cross-modulate oscillators
The three New Oxford Oscillators for each voice can become a linear FM source using either the analogue-sounding NCOs (Numerically-Controlled Oscillators) or digital wavetables. They are also able to cross-modulate in a recursive loop.

Huge modulation system
16-slot modulation matrix and 16 direct assignments controlled from the front panel, cleverly arranged for intuitive patch design and sound editing. Three ADSR envelopes and two LFOs for each voice.

Easily switch modulations
Two animate buttons give live performers instant one-touch transformation of patches.

Mind-blowing sounds on-board
Reverb, delay and chorus at your disposal, and there’s also an arpeggiator.

Connect to hardware and software
Connect and sync to your music software and MIDI-compatible hardware. CV modulation input used to slot together modular systems.

Store unlimited sounds
Keep as many patches as you like on your Mac or PC using the Components software.


electrofux
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21 Apr 2017

The Synth looks and sounds cool. But in one of the videos the product guy is operating the Mono Stations and starts to automate parameters and you can see how messy this can get with the circuit sequencer. Circuit has no parameter locks instead you either have to record parameter changes realtime or stop the sequencer.
On the Digitakt if you want to change the Reverb for a given Step, you hold down the step, turn the Reverb and thats it.
Also editing patterns >1bar is dificult while the machine is running because the machine allways follows the bar and shows the steps only as long as the bar is actually playing which is very bad.
These two issues make my circuit getting dusty. There are many cool features on the circuit sequencer but some things ruin it for me. Just hope that they update this thing with the mono station.

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