Little word of warning, it seems the screen scratches quite easily? I noticed a couple of small scratches on mine, tried to clean it with a microfibre cloth in case it came out and ended up with a load more fine scratches on it!
Maybe just unlucky and its not the end of the world, but if you worry about such things it might be worth keeping the protector on. Personally can’t stand protectors so that’s life 
OSC -> PW would be really nice although I’m not sure how well the digital oscillators will handle it. Noise to PW would be great too.
Got a Peak recently and wanted to share some impressions. Looks and feels good, and it is bigger than I expected. Sounds really good. Definitely a digital vibe through, analog filter/drive notwithstanding… What adds to this is the limited resolution of most parameter pots, and the fact that a lot of commonly used parameters (e.g. for LFO 3 and 4) live in the menus where you adjust parameters with a ‘stepped’ encoder. I get sort of the feeling that you’re ‘setting values’ for a sound, rather than tweaking/nudging as I would on a purely analogue synth. It works quite well, just a different vive. As I said, sounds good, and feels like it sits well in the mix. Haven’t really experienced any zipping sounds though.
I like the rubber alongside the bottom (not just 4 ‘feet’) which means it can be supported/leaned on various things in your studio. I also like the fact that the menus ‘remember’ where you left off, so if you’re tweaking LFO3 depth, then go to the Voice menu to change something and then press the LFO menu again, you’re back at LFO3 depth and can keep tweaking that same parameter. This really reduces the feeling of menu diving.
My main wish I think is for the knob behaviour… I really wish more synths would implement the knob behaviour that the Minilogue and Minitaur have (don’t know about others), but which seems not that common: an option where the parameter moves relative to a knob’s physically position, so that you can move to a new patch and immediately start tweaking, and you know you will have a some change to whatever knob you touch, but you also know that this won’t be a sudden change. Currently with Peak you have the option of having either (1) parameter values jumping to where the knob is, or (2) not changing until you move the knob to reach the patch’s saved parameter.
I really got spoiled with this on the Minilogue - it is such a great performance feature - you can move to a new patch and just start tweaking, sort of just touching this and that parameter in one or another direction… I love it. 
Sent a feature request to Novation - if you’re with me on this, perhaps drop a quick request to technical.support@novationmusic.com !
As others have noted, it gets quite boomy, and having a BP filter with HP and LP independently adjustable would be so useful… Currently there is a BP, but its width is fixed. Would this even be possible to add through a firmware upgrade?
I’m also not crazy about the indents on many knobs (OSC pitches, filter mod depth etc) - it sort of takes away from the feel that this is a ‘continuous’ sound that you can tweak live - again for me it lends itself more to a ‘sound design’ than performance aesthetic.
Thanks @tdmusic for your tip on the screen - still have my screen protector on, but it should be said that this is one of the uglier screen protectors I’ve seen so it’s just a matter of time!
Yeah I couldn’t handle it! No regrets, lol. You can only see the scratches under bright light, but just worth being aware of and being extra careful with it!
Does anyone know how you can set up an amplitude enveloppe for an oscillator used as an FM modulator ?
Would you not set up the “via” with one of the envelopes? And have the base amount of osc fm at zero? I’ll have to check this but it feels like it should be simple (famous last words).
Not sure if I understand. Even when used as an FM modulator, the Level knob of an osc is only adding some of the “raw” osc to the mix.
Not to do with the Osc level. In the mod matrix you have the top row that is for affecting how much modulation is applied. Like this.
That will get you what you want.
You need to add an envelope to the mod source and raise the amount.
Damn that was so obvious. Blame it on the lack of sleep. Thanks a lot !
Pro tip: for more DX7 like fm sounds it helps when you set the oscs to restart at each keypress in the osc menu.
When I flipped it on to check the mod matrix page I immediately started having fun and made a nice new FM patch. I love the Peak.
this started happening recently. I get this message any time I touch anything to do with MIDI in Logic…
obviously only when I dont have the Peak turned on. but I dont necessarily want to have it on all the time. its kinda fucking shit up on my machine. and I can’t figure out how to disable it. or ask the right question in google to find the answer. I have its external instrument insert disabled as well.
hoping someone here might be able to help
It has nothing to do with with the Peak. AFAIK, there’s no way to disable these messages from Logic. Like you mentioned, you can leave the Peak on all the time to not get them. You can also remove the Peak from your MIDI devices and then add it back when you want to use… not sure that’s what you want though.
Shouldn’t be an issue if you just click “OK”. What other shit is it fucking up?
A note about Ricky’s LFO video:
I was disappointed to find that you can’t save how out-of-sync the LFOs are if you want them to be free running. Every time you turn the Peak off and on, they’ll reset to being in sync again. I’ve found a workaround that allows me to designate patches to have out-of-sync, free running LFOs:
Let me know if y’all have other ways to do this! Other things I’m enjoying about the Peak: velocity sensitive envelopes without having to go the mod matrix, FM Ns > 01 … very nice 
there will be MAJOR clicking in my audio. something is trying to connect. I thought it was an audio buffer issue. but while trying to disable these messages…it started to happen with no audio playing.
so something is super messed up. I loaded a template that had no Peak stuff in it. there was no issues. still trying to werk out what is happening
adding I did remove it from the MIDI devices and it still happens. either that template corrupted, or there is another bit of something in that template that I haven’t found related to the Peak that is causing it to go nuts. it actually screws up my computer. makes safari act weird, causes CPU spikes.
since last…ive made a new template from a new scene in Logic.
everything seems good for now. perhaps the previous template was corrupted.
but Logic was constantly trying to connect to the Peak, when it was off. if I touched ANY midi parameter in Logic, it would do a search for the Peak. so I’m guess when midi data was getting sent to other gear with no Peak present, it would scan, causing audio glitches cuz it was grabbing hold of Logic…or something.
anyways, new template seem to have corrected it currently.
After updating to the current version, on start up it now has a progress bar and when that finishes it says wave tables no change… is that normal?
Yeah mine does that on every boot up, reckon it’s normal
Great thanks, wasn’t sure because didn’t do it on the last firmware before the update…
