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Novation Summit
Product no: 9000-0052-0928 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

The Novation Summit is a synthesizer with a timbrality of two parts: 16 polyphonic voices and a keyboard. This flagship synth is loaded with three New Oxford oscillators per voice (subtractive, FM and wavetable synthesis) and there's an analogue multi-mode with 12/24dB filter per voice with dual-mode. The specialised keyboard gives you 5 octaves and the 61 semi-weighted keys with polyphonic after-touch. Another salient detail is the built-in effects: chorus, delay, distortion and reverb are available to blow your sound wide open and thanks to the stereo connection and routing options as well as aux connections, you can easily hook this synth up to a live rig or home studio.

Higher education from the Novation Summit and its New Oxford oscillators

The New Oxford oscillators are as smart as you would expect. Generated on the FPGA chip, you get the classic range of waveforms: saw, sine, triangle, block and pulse, enhanced by 43 wavetables. With the oscillators, FM can be used so that, while the unpredictable drift of analogue circuits is there, since they're actually digitally generated, they are stable. The filter however is certainly analogue, with low-pass, band-pass and high-pass and any combination of these three in dual-mode. A great bonus is the included copy of Ableton Live Lite along with access to the Novation Sound Collective.

Intimidating Potential

The Novation Summit is a formidable tweak-box. With a control panel teeming with encoders and faders, the potential is almost intimidating. If you're familiar with previous Novation offerings like the Supernova, then you may not be so afraid of scaling the mountain of options available with this synth. The three oscillators, FM-options, LFOs with slewing, multi-mode filters, effects per side and whatever else you want to throw in, are all pushed through an algorithm via the FPGA chip that adds all the unpredictability and colour of an entirely analogue synthesizer, resulting in nothing short of outstanding sound quality at the other end. This synth is definitely hardware, just a little softer.

Wavetable Editor

The Summit also includes Novation's glittering new Wavetable Editor, offering deep control over the wavetable oscillators. The editor operates via Novation Components and features drawing tools and a Live Edit mode so that oscillator shapes can be literally drawn in by hand and calculated in real-time. Via the audio import function, imported audio can be used as an oscillator waveform to unique and inspiring effect.

In Collaboration with Noisia

The Wavetable Editor also comes with stack of breathtaking sounds that come straight from the NASA library, including waveforms and recordings taken during expeditions in space. Content has also been provided by the production masters, Noisia, offering users a comprehensive preset pack to help guide wavetable exploration. Gain access to the Wavetable Editor via the Novation Components platform whenever the Peak or Summit is hooked up to your computer or laptop via USB.

Specifications

Product features

Sustainable product	not specified
Synthesizer kind	standard
Synthesizer options	extensive
Difficulty level	intermediate
Vintage remake	no
Sound source	FM
Number of keys	61
Arpeggiator/sequencer	arpeggiator
19-inch rack size	not applicable
Synthesizer type	keyboard
Type of keys	keyboard action
Synthesizer inputs	line in
Synthesizer outputs	line out jack, headphone
MIDI & other	MIDI in, MIDI out, MIDI thru, MIDI over USB
Audio via USB	no
Control	sustain (input), expression (input)
Polyphony	16

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging)	14,7 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging)	112,5 x 43,0 x 19,0 cm

Product specifications

Novation Summit
digital/analogue synthesizer
semi-weighted keyboard with polyphonic after-touch
polyphony: 16
timbrality: 2
sound generator:
- 3x oscillator "New Oxford Oscillator" (FPGA-chip)
- waveforms: sine, triangle, saw, square/pulse, 43 wavetables
- noise generator:
- ringmodulator
- FM
- 2x LFO per octave + 2x LFO global
- analogue 12/24dB filter, LP, BP, HP, dual-mode
- effects per part: distortion, chorus, delay, reverb
extensive modulation matrix
including Ableton Live Lite
including access to Novation Sound Collective
metal housing
wooden side panels (walnut)
included:
- USB cable
- power cable
- 'Getting Started' user manual
dimensions: 999 x 304 x 92mm
weight: 11 kg

technical specifications:

synth engine:
- 16 note polyphonics (depending on the number of voices per note)
- 2-way timbrality
- layered, split and dual bi-timbral mode
per voice
- 3 oscillators
- 1 noise generator with HP filter control
- 1 ring modulator
- 2 LFOs
- 1 amp envelope and 2 mod envelopes (ADHSR + looping)
- 1 filter
waveforms:
- sine, tri, sawtooth, square / pulse
- 43 wavetables from 5 waveforms per row
filter:
- 1 state variable OTA filter per voice
- 12/24 dB slope
- low-pass / band-pass / high-pass / dual filter
- dual filter: LP > HP, LP > BP, HP > BP, LP + HP, LP + BP, HP + BP, LP + LP, BP + BP, and HP + HP
- pre-filter overdrive
- post-filter distortion
modulation
- 16 modulatie slots per patch
- 2 sources per destination per slot
mod sources:
- direct (depth)
- modulation wheel
- after-touch (polyphonic and channel AT)
- expression pedal 1
- expression pedal 2
- keyboard velocity
- LFO1 positive
- LFO1 bi-polar
- LFO2 positive
- LFO2 bi-polar
- amp envelope
- mod envelope 1
- mod envelope 2
- animate 1
- animate 2
- CV mod input bi-polar
- bend up
- bend down
mod destinations
- oscillator 1-3 frequency, v-sync level, shape amount and level
- noise source level
- ring modulator output level
- overall synth output level
- filter drive, distortion, cut-off frequency and resonance
- LFO 1 and 2 frequency
- amp env / mod env 1 / mod env 2 attack, decay and release
- FM Osc 1 -> osc 2, osc 2 -> osc 3, osc 3 -> osc 1 and noise -> osc 1
- osc 3 -> filter cutoff frequency
- noise -> filter cutoff frequency
effects
- analogue distortion
- 2 chorus types
- delay with x16 delay sync, LP en HP damping, slew en stereo
- 3 types of reverb
FX mod matrix source
- direct (depth)
- mod wheel
- aftertouch
- expression pedal 1
- expression/breath pedal 2
- velocity
- keyboard
- LFO 1 +/-
- LFO 2 +/-
- LFO 3 +/-
- LFO 4 +/-
- amp envelope
- mod envelope 1 & 2
- animate 1 & 2
- CV +/-
- bendwheel +/-
- bend up
- bend down
FX mod matrix destinations
- distortion level
- chorus level
- chorus rate
- chorus depth
- chorus feedback
- delay level
- delay time
- delay feedback
- reverb level
- reverb time
- reverb low pass
- reverb high pass
misc:
- FM controls on the control panel:
- global LFO 3 & 4
- arpeggiator with key latch – 33 patterns
- patch storage – up to 512 on the hardware (comes with 256 factory patches)
- glide control
- all pots (m.u.v. volume), sliders send and receive MIDI cc commands for external control and mapping
- microtuning with Scala table import and table tuning creation
- manual mode
- multi pot mod: relative pot pick-up, snap

hardware specificaties:

50 control pots
8 45 mm sliders
1 volume pot
1 data encoder pot
rubber caps with spun metal discs rubberen
55 function buttons
2 animate pots plus hold-pot
OLED display
Kensington lock
on/off switch
IEC-connection for power
USB-port (MIDI only, no bus power)
MIDI in/out/thru
2x 6.35 mm jack connector for continuous or switched pedals
1x 3.5 mm jack connector for CV-in
2x 6.35 mm jack connector for left/right outputs
2x 6.35 mm jack connector for left/right auxiliary outputs
2x 6.35 mm jack connector for left/right inputs
2x 6.35 mm jack connector for headphones
metal housing with American walnut sides
magnetic, metal inset end pieces

Firmware v2.0

Stereo:
- Just like with American classics, the oscillators and/or voices can be divided over the Left and Right output, and the stereo image can be altered via a mod-matrix. This takes the already rich and full foundation sound and transforms it into finely structured soundscapes.
Modulation & Probability
- Create deeper and more experimental sound using the new mod-destinations, noise as mod-source, and extra LFO 3 and LFO 4 parameters. Animate Envelopes and Arpeggiator Chance open up more creative options.
Effects:
- New Chorus, Flanger and Phaser effects have been added to the effects library. The extra modulation options make it possible to built more complex effect chains. The new Lo-Fi delay mode does exactly what you expect and will definitely appeal to any Summit or Peak user.

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