Novation unveils Bass Station II, a brand new version of the original BassStation released in 1993. Bass Station II is a powerful analogue synth keyboard that’s made for bass but equally well adapted to leads. Bass Station II has been completely re-worked for the 21st century, with two filters, three oscillators, patch save and a fully-analogue effects section. Plus there’s a step sequencer, arpeggiator, a two octave (25-note) velocity-sensitive keyboard with full-sized keys and a powerful modulation section. There’s even MIDI I/O and USB connectivity.
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Novation unveils Launchpad S, an upgrade to their best selling DAW controller for Ableton Live. Launchpad S is a powerful 64-button MIDI controller that lets you make music or mix tracks using a super-intuitive grid of tri-colour ‘launch’ pads.
Launchpad S comes with Ableton Live music software (Launchpad Edition), used by some of the world’s top DJs and producers – plus it supports other grid-based music applications such as FL Studio. Whether you’re a DJ, performing musician or studio producer, Launchpad gives you all you need to ‘play’ your software straight out of the box. Use the 64-button grid to launch and manipulate clips, trigger loops, fire off effects, control your mixer – and much more. Launchpad S also triggers loops and effects in the Novation Launchpad app for iPad; a totally self-standing music performance app that hosts sounds and effects. continue reading…
Lucas Taranto on stage with the Novation Ultranova
Lucas Taranto says: “It all started with the Novation Bass Station. Unfortunately with the Bass Station being so old and touring being so rough, I needed to update my bass keyboard. Enter the Novation UltraNova. The UN has delivered those thick bass sounds I needed to hold down the bottom end in Gotye shows. It has the ability to dive into the sounds and really create whatever I hear in my head or, whatever sounds I need to re-create. As a second keyboard I took a Novation MiniNova out on the road with me. In my opinion, the Mini is a slightly more awesome synth in a package half the size. The sounds are huge, especially the bass sounds, but its the MiniNova’s ability to create multiple changes in real time that sets it apart for me. Between the filter and the animate buttons, creating live sounds/lines on the gig is so much fun. I can easily adapt to whatever is happening musically on stage, instantly. It’s easy to get around the functions and it almost fits in my pocket! Perfect for when I need it at a gig for only a couple of songs. It fits in my bass guitar gig bag and I can run it straight into my bass amp. Thumpin’!” continue reading…
Novation Launch the creation of a powerful new hardware / software instrument: Launchkey. Based around a 25, 49 and 61 key keyboard controller with 16 velocity-sensitive multi-colour launch pads, Launchkey features the Launchkey app (an iPad performance synth) as well as a Launchpad app that provides drag-and-drop loop playback from the pads and real-time effects including stutter and filter effects. It also ships with a suite of software for Mac and PC including Novation’s V-Station and Bass Station soft-synth plugins and Ableton Live Lite. Launchkey’s 16 launch pads will also trigger clips and scenes in Ableton Live.
Novation announce the release of MiniNova, a brand new Minature Synth. It’s not everyday exciting products like the MiniNova get announced, and it’s been well over a year since Novation released their last Keyboard Synth.
Novation MiniNova
Boasting 37 miniature keys and armed with a Vocoder, MiniNova comes with all the tools to recreate iconic sounds from classic Hip Hop and Electronic Dance tracks.
VocalTune means you can talk directly into the Vocoder mic of and play the tune you want your voice to follow. You can then add any effect found in the MiniNova to this sound.
Incorporating the same Synth engine found in the UltraNova, Novation also added a further 256 sounds.
Not just a one trick pony, the MiniNova doubles up as a 37 Key MIDI Keyboard taking full control of your DAW and software plug-ins.
Editing software that works as a plug-in within your DAW is provided giving you visual access to the MiniNova synth engine. You can control this using the parameters on the keyboard synth.
14 conventional waveforms, 36 wavetables, and 20 digital waveforms make up part of the MiniNova synth engine. 14 filter types, 6 envelope generators, 3 LFOs and 20 modulation slots link modules of the MiniNova synth engine together to shape the sound.
37 Keys, Built-In Vocoder, 256 Sounds, 5 Effects Per Voice
Priced at £299.99 the MiniNova will be shipping Mid October 2012. Pre-Order your MiniNova from Music Matter to guarantee stock from the first UK shipment.
Novation Automap Update For Reason: Good news for Reason users, the latest update to Automap brings vastly improved Reason integration to the Novation Impulse range of controller keyboards.
The 2nd round of winners in the Focusrite “Gold / Silver / Bronze” Competition has been drawn, and a customer who purchased a Novation Impulse 49 MIDI Keyboard Controller from Music Matter has won a SILVER £100 Voucher.
Congratulations – Chris Stone from East Sussex
Buy any Focusrite or Novation product from Music Matter to be in with a chance of winning.
Between July 27th and August 12th 2012, Music Matter in partnership with Focusrite and Novation are offering amazing prizes for 17 days. If you purchase a new Focusrite or Novation product on any competition day, you are eligible to enter for a chance to win Gold.
Today Novation announced a major price drop for the Twitch bringing the DJ Controller and Interface down to £299, under cutting one of it’s biggest rivals, the Traktor Kontrol S2 (currently at £329).
