Novation Summit

Are Peak owners allowed too? :wink: I opted for a Peak over a Summit due to space constraints. I’ve heard that the Summit keybed is a little lacking (I’ve never played one) and I really only have room for one synth with lots of keys so I’m holding out for something else.

It’s really a lovely synth! I’m a sucker for all those knobs right there - ready for sound shaping! Analog emulation + FM + Wavetables, all with a great UI

Since you mention patches, I think it’s worth sharing this post from @TBN on the Peak thread. Some nice FM style patches - I love the more realistic sounds

I also have loaded some of @cuckoomusic’s Peak patches (they’re good!) and picked through some that they have on the Librarian. I haven’t done enough sound design to really share anything yet - I normally just find a patch that I kind of like and then start tweaking from there.

:rofl: not going to lie - I’m guilty of this right now. Only because I don’t have a bigger keyboard (yet!). Can’t wait for the day to really put the polyphony through its paces.

This. So much this. Right now it just feels like access to multiple sounds in the same patch. But setting two animate scenes really fills up the mod matrix and doesn’t feel that useful to me (since they’re simply on/off).

This video really helped sell me on the Peak! Although it’s a shame that you can’t save the offsets in the presets (power cycling the machine resets the LFOs as far as I know). Maybe a feature request!? It should be possible. If you want it, then ask for it :innocent:

Love me some good pitch bends! I wish the Peak/Summit had an option to default pitch bend amount to +1 - afaik you have to go in and change it for each OSC. On the other hand, it’s pretty cool that you can set that on a per-oscillator basis.

Writing this post, I think I found 3 feature requests that I’m going to send in to Novation :smiley:

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