Product Overview
Inspired from the critically acclaimed and innovative Peak, Novation introduces the break-through Summit. Enhance your studio and stage, Summit is an inspiring and empowering two part, 16-voice keyboard synth with Oxford Oscillators and Dual Analog Filter for professional and semi-professional musicians.
Explore sounds as if two Peaks are at your fingertips, Summit enables two completely independent patches to be split or layered across the keyboard, or switched on the fly. The front panel provides access to your favorite controls: FM routing, LFOs 3 and 4, all arpeggiator parameters and more, as well as pitch and mod wheels. Summit also features numerous new filter options, and an audio input for processing external sources with its reverb, chorus and delay effects.
Three digital New Oxford Oscillators per voice are at the core of Summit, all hosted on the Field Programmable Gate Array Chip (FPGA). The chip generates authentic analogue-style waveforms at incredibly high resolution, while facilitating FM and wavetable synthesis for rich, complex and highly textural raw tones. Each voice feeds into a true stereo signal path comprising dual analogue filters, three stages of analog distortion and analog VCAs; while a wealth of modulation assignment options and three colorful effects bring movement, life and polish to your patches.
Novation Summit Includes:
- Novation Summit Synthesizer
- USB cable
- Printed Getting Started Guide
- Power lead
- Software:
- Ableton Live Lite music making software
- Access to the Novation Sound Collective
Novation Summit Features:
- Two-part multitimbral 16-voice polyphonic synthesizer
- Three NCO New Oxford Oscillators per voice, enabling subtractive, wavetable or FM synthesis
- Analogue multimode 12/24dB filter per voice with Dual mode
- Five-octave semi-weighted, premium keybed with velocity sensitivity and aftertouch
- Per-part effects: distortion, chorus, delay and reverb
- Stereo audio-in routable to onboard effects and aux outputs
Novation Summit Specifications:
- Synth Engine:
- 16 note polyphony (dependent on voices used per note)
- 2-part-timbral
- Layered, Split, Dual Bi-Timbral Modes
- 5 Voice Modes - Mono, MonoLG, Mono2, Poly, Poly2
- 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 Include: Sine, tri, sawtooth, square / pulse, plus 43 wavetables of 5 waveforms per row
- Filter:
- 1 state variable OTA filter per voice
- 12/24dB slope
- Low-pass / band-pass / high-pass / dual filter (separation of each 12dB filters)
- 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 modulation slots per patch
- 2 sources per destination per slot
- Mod Sources: 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, 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:
- FX are per part
- Analog distortion
- 3 chorus types
- Delay with 16 types of delay sync, LP and HP damping, slew and stereo
- 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 front panel, Global LFO 3 & 4, Arpeggiator with key latch – 33 patterns, Patch storage - up to 512 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches), All knobs (excl. volume), sliders and most buttons transmit and receive MIDI cc commands for external control and mapping, Microtuning with Scala table import and table tuning creation, Manual mode, Multi pot mode: Relative, Pot pick-up, Snap
- Product Hardware Specifications
- 50 control knobs
- 8 45mm sliders
- 1 volume knob
- 1 data encoder knob
- Rubberized knob caps with spun metal discs
- 55 function buttons
- 2 Animate buttons plus hold button
- OLED display
- Kensington Lock
- Power switch
- IEC power supply connector
- USB socket for system (MIDI comms only, no bus power)
- MIDI In / Out / Thru
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for continuous or switched pedals
- 1 3.5mm jack socket for CV in
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right outputs
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right auxiliary outputs
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right inputs
- 1/4" jack socket for headphone output
- Metal chassis with American walnut wooden end cheeks
- Metal magnetic inset end pieces
- Software Compatibility:
- Ableton Live Lite is included
- Summit is a USB-MIDI class compliant device
- Power Requirements: Maximum power consumption 1A
