Published
Tue, May 14, 2019, 08:50
- The 61-key design was revealed at Superbooth last week.
Novation has a new flagship synthesiser.
Taking cues from Peak, the English company's last polysynth, Summit doubles the power of its predecessor with 16 polyphonic voices that can be split or layered across a 61-key keyboard. Each voice holds three New Oxford Oscillators on a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip, capable of reproducing high-definition analogue waveforms along with wavetable and FM tones.
The signal then passes through a pair of multimode filters, which can also be shaped by three different distortion stages lying pre- and post-filter as well as after the VCA. The oscillators are complimented by a noise source and ring modulator while each patch can have 16 modulation slots for routing a pair of LFOs, envelopes and other sources around the synth. External audio can also be routed through the signal path for extra processing with on-board delay, chorus and reverb effects.
There's currently no word on Summit's price or availability.
Watch a promo video for Summit.
