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    In Novation’s biggest update for Peak, firmware update v2.0 brings in essential improvements and a multitude of features across stereo controls, modulation, unpredictability, and effects, that give you powerful tools to shape your sound.

    Firmware v2.0 Features

    Stereo

    New spread modes, panning per voice, and panning in the mod matrix give additional control and allows for sound design in the stereo field. Now you can create bigger, wider, and more intricately textured soundscapes.

    Modulation and unpredictability

    Create deeper and more experimental sounds with new mod destinations, noise as a mod source, and additional LFO 3 and 4 parameters. Animate Envelopes and Arpeggiator Chance open more creative performance possibilities.

    Effects

    New effects, including Chorus Modes, Flanger, and Phlanger add new tonalities. Additional effects modulation destinations open up more experimental sound design. A new Lo-Fi delay mode enables a more vintage style sound.

    Bug Fixes

    The firmware update v2.0 includes a number of bug fixes. The full details can be found in the release notes.

    Summit and Peak firmware v2.0 is the last addition to the legacy of Chris Huggett’s innovative synth design work with Novation. Having shaped the sound of Novation’s iconic synths–including Bass Station, Supernova, Bass Station II, Peak and Summit, Chris has left an indelible imprint on Novation’s heritage, and we will always be grateful for his influence and inspiration.

    Producing true analog tone with modern technology, the Peak polysynth can easily be tweaked plus the sounds are warm and rich with filthy biting overdrive. The Novation Peak is an eight-voice desktop polyphonic synthesiser with three New Oxford Oscillators for each voice. The oscillators sound completely analogue by being high-quality NCOs (Numerically-Controlled Oscillators), but gain the flexibility of the digital domain with 17 digital wavetables. They can also become a linear FM source using either the analogue-sounding NCOs or digital wavetables – so are able to cross-modulate in an recursive loop.

    Novation Peak Polyphonic Synthesizer Features
    • Innovative New Oxford Oscillators using two waveform generating techniques: NCOs (Numerically-Controlled Oscillators) and 17 digital wavetables
    • Pre-filter and post-filter distortion per voice, plus global distortion 
    • Polyphonic aftertouch and linear FM 
    • Extensive modulation system, with 16-slot modulation matrix and 16 direct assignments controlled on the front panel 
    • Three ADSR envelopes and two LFOs per voice, plus animate buttons for instant modulation switching 
    • High-quality reverb, delay and chorus effects, and onboard arpeggiator
    • CV modulation input for integration with modular systems 
    • Compact desktop module design with optional die-cast aluminum stand for positioning (sold separately)
    The synth has a resonant multi-mode analogue filter for each voice, and three distortion points for each voice – pre-filter, post-filter and global – in an analogue signal chain. The Novation Peak is capable of receiving polyphonic aftertouch, which puts expression right at your fingertips. Reverb, delay and chorus effects are at one's disposal, and there is also an on-board arpeggiator.

    The modulation system puts a 16-slot modulation matrix and 16 direct assignments in the main controls, cleverly arranged for intuitive patch design and sound editing. There are three ADSR envelopes and two LFOs for each voice, and more elaborate movements and secondary ‘via’ assignments are made just a few menu button presses away. In addition, two animate buttons give live performers instant one-touch transformation of patches.

    The Novation Peak connects to modular systems via a CV modulation input, and has MIDI I/O on five-pin DIN ports, so other MIDI gear can be connected. Via USB, Peak can be plugged into Mac or PC, where unlimited patches can be kept using the Components software.

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    Novation Peak Polyphonic Synthesiser Specifications

    Novation Peak Polyphonic Synthesiser Specifications
    Product SpecificationsNovation Peak Polyphonic Synthesiser Specifications
      What's in the Box
      Novation Peak polyphonic synthesizer
      USB cable
      Power supply

       Peak System Requirements
      Novation Peak is class compliant, so will work with any modern Mac, Windows or Linux PC. For further information see the Novation web site.

       Peak Included Software
      • Ableton Live Lite music making software
      • Loopmasters sounds and samples
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