Novation Peak Review Part 2: Hands-on in-depth synthesis
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In the 2nd video of our in-depth review of Peak, Novation's new flagship digital/analog hybrid synthesizer, Rishabh Rajan demonstrates its capabilities for sound design and music production.
I'm very excited for this synth. The waveform display location is great, good video.
Thanks for the oscilloscope, that's what I really wanted :)
Totally! But what oscilloscope is he using? Is there a good AAX oscilloscope plugin? Or maybe just a stand-alone one for macOS that anyone can recommend?
By far best review on this synth ever, instantly subscribed.
Straight to the top of my wantlist. :) Excellent sound and interface.
great video. Really like the osciloscope
sounds great, good job on this one... building up some GAS :)
could this be my dear synthesizer patel here??
Dear Novation, please give us the option to modulate effects parameters. Also, it would be nice to have ~ Voice# as a modulation source, so that subtle variations in LFO rate, filter resonance or other parameters can be explored for a more unpredictable polyphonic experience.
Sounds good so far. Looking forward to hearing more of the chorus effect and how this synth behaves polyphonically and how the NCOs compare to VCOs when playing chords. Like the polyphonic (independent) LFOs (missing from the recent DSI synths).
Excellent review! Now I have to have one...
cool thanks how do you get the oscilloscope into the video ?
I like the graphic waveform overlay, what scope software is that?
Might just be after effects or similar. helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/generate-effects.html#audio_waveform_effect
Was hoping like the minilogue, it would be on the synth's lcd.
Yeah, and the way he places it within the shoot. Really nice!
this is excellent content. thank you.
I'm in love with that beast. Life goal is to get one of these haha :D
What a superb sounding hi pass
If you think the FM depth isn't enough, couldn't you use the same source twice in the mod matrix (source A and B) for twice as much?
It seems like you'd need to set sustain envelope to max to hear full fm effect
nice reverb indeed!
Are arpeggiator patterns the same on the BS2?
nice demo thank you. I feel your voice is a bit loud compared to the synth sounds.
Cool but, What about the FM feedback...?
I always hated the rhythm modes in the arp for the bass station, looks like the same hear, wish they would just do normal subdivisions instead
What size keyboard would be ideal for this?
can the Peak be rackmounted?
was wondering the same thing..
Probably the same as the desktop Nova, with removable rack ears.
Haven't found anything confirming this topic..!
It can have the wooden cheeks seen here, or an optional chunky black diecast stand which looks awesome. Not seen it rack mounted.
I know this is v late but No.
it has vst like ultranova ?
Nice video but somehow my neck really hurts.
how do you connect the Peak with a keyboard?
MIDI
Very interested, do we know how high the LFO goes into audio rate?
1.6 kHz
1.6 kHz
Oh that's great, very high then. Thanks.
I believe he said 1.6khz
Yeah I think I must have missed that, or asked before he mentioned it.
wow the filter is crazy
Thanks for the video. At 7:00, isn’t the filter jumping by steps?
some nice hardwaresynths coming out this year, and this is coming from a software synth junkie.
no split patches???? c'mon!!!
It looks cool sounds cool but not worth 1300 if you cant send audio into it...
this or the digitone...
J K both.
maybe i am spoiled cause of our times and choice of products but this i find this a bit too expensive for what it does.
wtf... It does everything. And for a polysynth it's awesome for that price imo
If it we're a mono synth I would agree. But it does have 8 voices which means 8 times the analog components.
Try playing with it in reality. It is amazing.
no unison?
Vlad TheSour there is unison upto 8 votes, did you listen? About 3mins in
unison was shown
I saw now, skipped a bit through the video hehe.... it doesn't sound fat at all in comparison with a prophet6 for example
Vlad TheSour hehe, yes they don't really show it properly, They bare
Y skip over it but think the next day or so we will see a million of these videos and maybe others will concentrate their efforts a bit
There are controls to make the wavesforms act more like analog ones to get that fatter thick sound.
I think this is gonna be my "poor" man's W. Quantum xD
nope nothing is skimped here.
i already like it... But it's a bit expensive for a non-analog synth, no?
no it really isn't, look at the modal 002 which also uses NCOs for example. This thing is a beast for the price.
The preamps and filter are fully analog and theirs a DAC for each voice the Ocilliator CPU costs more than DSP chips. that's expensive to manufacture.
It''s hybrid.
sounds like a vst
No, it doesn't. Those filters are yummy.
A lot of these new synths sound like VST's and i believe its because they are built with the same electronic components as computer audio interfaces.
+Heathcliff That's true for all hardware really - they have resistors, capacitors, opamps, DACs, and so on... everything uses the same electronics, just in different configurations.
+Monster LMA Peak is not a DSP thing - at least not for oscillators. It's using a FPGA, so that's actual gate arrays rather than transistors calculating some DSP code. And it doesn't sound like a VST at all.
it doesn't sound analog either
Filter for sure does.
$1,300 -- F*cK oFF!