Novation Summit

Novation Summit Synthesizer

Built on the innovative foundations of Novation's critically acclaimed Peak, Summit is a three-oscillator-per-voice, 16-voice keyboard synth aimed at the professional or semi-professional musician seeking an inspiring, empowering instrument for use both live and in the studio. In fact, Summit effectively puts the power of two Peaks at your fingertips, enabling two completely independent patches to be split or layered across the keyboard, or switched between on the fly. It also expands on Peak's layout, with many 'hidden' controls and functions made accessible on the front panel - FM routing, LFOs 3 and 4, all arpeggiator parameters and more - plus the addition of pitch and mod wheels. Summit also features numerous filter options, and an audio input for processing external sources with its reverb, chorus and delay effects.

At the heart of Summit are three digital Oxford Oscillators per voice, hosted on the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip. As well as generating authentic analog-style waveforms at incredibly high resolution, this also facilitates FM and wavetable synthesis for the design of rich, complex and highly textural raw tones. Each voice feeds into a true stereo signal path comprising dual analog filters, three stages of analog distortion and analog VCAs; while a wealth of modulation assignment options and three colourful effects bring movement, life and polish to your patches.

Peak Powered Up

The acclaimed Peak architecture taken to the next level, with 16 voices, expanded front panel controls, additional filter options, a five-octave keyboard and more.

Two Sounds At Once

Multitimbral engine for splitting, stacking and switching between two simultaneous patches.

Digital Where It Counts

Digital FPGA-generated Oxford Oscillators for analog-style, wavetable and FM synthesis.

Analog Where It Matters

Dual analog filters, analog VCAs and three stages of analog distortion per voice.

Per-part Effects and Arpeggiation

Process each part or an external audio signal with reverb, chorus and delay effects, and create riffs and melodic lines with a variety of arp modes, adjustable gate time and preset patterns.

Features:

- Included Software:
- Ableton Live Lite music making software
- Access to the Novation Sound Collective

- What's In The Box:
- Novation Summit Synthesizer
- USB cable
- Printed Getting Started Guide
- Power lead 

- 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
- Analogue 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 +/-