Novation Summit

• Hybrid Synthesiser
• 61 velocity-sensitive keys
• Aftertouch
• 16 voices
• Arpeggiator
• Chord memory
• Three oscillators with analogue waveforms and wavetables
• Multimode filter
• Three ADSR envelopes
• Four LFOS
• Modulation matrix
• Distortion
• Chorus
• Delay
• Reverb
• Wooden side panels

Oscillators

A total of three New Oxford oscillators provide the Novation Summit with an impressive sonic foundation. In addition to the four analogue waveforms sine, triangle, sawtooth and square, each oscillator has access to an extensive selection of wavetables. The pitch and waveform of each tone generator can be modulated manually, via LFO or envelope. The FM component and modulator can also be set directly for each oscillator.

Mixer and filters

The mixer provides access to the levels of the three oscillators, the noise generator and the ring modulator. The generated spectrum is then processed by a multimode filter which, in addition to lowpass, bandpass and highpass, offers several other variants, each with a slope of 12 or 24 dB.

Modulation

In addition to velocity and polyphonic aftertouch, the hybrid synthesiser scores with three fully-fledged, loopable ADSR envelopes and four very flexible LFOs. With the exception of LFO 3+4, all modulation sources are permanently assigned to different destinations in the Summit, but can also be used elsewhere or multiple times via entries in the menu.

Effects

The sound of the Novation Summit is rounded off and refined by a rich-sounding distortion, a wonderfully floating and pulsating chorus effect, the clean delay, which can be synchronised to the clock, and a versatile reverb.

Expanded

Many functions that were accessible via menu pages in Peak can be found in Summit as control elements on the user interface. Voice assignment, arpeggiator with new chord function, FM intensity per oscillator and LFOs 3+4 are now easily accessible.

Connections

The Summit makes contact with the outside world via USB and the tried-and-tested MIDI trio. In addition to the main out and headphone output, there is an assignable AUx output. An audio input allows external material to be fed in. Two pedal inputs and a CV input for control voltages provide additional control options.

New firmware update

Novation has significantly upgraded the two analogue synthesizers Summit and Peak with the OS Update 2.0. In addition to some bug fixes and optimisations of individual functions, the main focus has been on new functions and the expansion of existing features. The update is available free of charge on the Novation homepage and in the Components app.

New in OS 2.0

• 3 new stereo spread modes
• New effects (Chorus, Flanger, Phlanger, Lo Fi Delay)
• 12 more FX parameters as modulation destinations
• 11 new synthesiser parameters as destinations in the mod matrix
• Pan control in the voicing menu

Enhancements and improvements in OS 2.0

• Aftertouch Scaling Setting
• Animate Envelopes
• Patch Cue Mode
• New parameters for LFOs 3 & 4
• Chord2 mode for the arpeggiator
• Time Mode for the delay, with which the sample rate can be reduced to emulate vintage digital delays