Peak
The legendary instrument makers Novation have announced their latest synthesiser. Introducing the eight-voice desktop polysynth called Peak. Get excited.
Bass Station
British engineer Chris Huggett (the brain behind the Bass Station, Supernova and OSCar synths) has been brought on board by Novation to help design Peak. It is a hybrid analogue-digital synthesizer that takes after Novation's pure analogue Bass Station II. 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.
Manipulation & Effects
It features eight voices with oscillators engineered to sound and behave like analogue gear along with 17 digital wavetables. Despite the digital oscillators, a multi-mode analogue filter and three distortion points make for an analogue signal chain. The synth boasts a 16-slot modulation matrix, including three ADSR envelopes and two LFOs for each voice. Peak supports polyphonic aftertouch and also has a really nice creative feature in the two ‘animate’ buttons, designed for one-touch transformation of patches. Finally the chain ends with reverb, delay and chorus effects.
Store as Many Patches as you Want
Another nice feature is you can keep as many patches as you like on your Mac or PC using the Components software. Circuit Components is a suite of free tools for Circuit that provides all you need to expand, tweak and create your own customised instrument.
Peak is due to land in May with a retail price of £1249. Pre Order
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Technical Specifications
42 Control knobs
8 35mm Sliders
1 Volume knob
2 Data encoders
Rubberised knob caps with spun metal discs
30 Function buttons (not lit)
16 Function buttons (lit)
2 Animate buttons plus hold button
90 Indicator LEDs
OLED display
Kensington Security Slot
Power switch
Power supply connector
USB socket
MIDI In / Out / Thru
2 1/4" jack socket for continuous or switched pedals
3.5mm jack socket for CV in
1/4" jack sockets for left and right outputs
1/4" jack socket for headphone output
Metal chassis with wooden end cheeks
Metal magnetic inset end pieces
Synth Engine
8 note polyphony (dependent on voices used per note)
Mono-Timbral
3 oscillators
1 noise generator
1 ring modulator
2 LFOs
1 Amp envelope and 2 mod envelopes
1 Filter
Sine, tri, sawtooth, square / pulse plus 17 wavetables of 5 waveforms per row
1x State variable OTA filter per voice
12/24dB slope
Low-pass / band-pass / high-pass
Pre-filter overdrive
Post-filter distortion
Modulation
16 modulation slots per patch
Each slot has 2 sources to 1 destination
Mod sources (17)
Direct (depth)
Modulation wheel
Aftertouch (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
Mod destinations (37)
Oscillator 1-3 frequency, v-sync level, shape amount and level
Noise source level
Ring modulator output level
Overal 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
Analogue distortion
Chorus - 3 types
Delay w/delay sync
Reverb - 3 types
Arpeggiator w/ key latch – 33 patterns
Patch storage - up to 512 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)
Glide
Ableton Live Lite 9 is included
Peak is a USB-MIDI class compliant device
Maximum power consumption 12V DC 1A
Product Dimensions
233mm (9.17") width x 464mm (18.27") depth x 70.5mm (2.78") height
