Novation Summit Synthesizer
Bigger and badder than the Novation Peak, the Summit is a 16-voice, 2-part multi-timbral monster! Reach new heights with 3 oscillators and 2 analog filters.
Overview
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.
Enrique Martinez gives us a overview and a play-through demo of the Novation Summit:
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.… read more
Novation // Summit Performance:
Stereo: New spread modes, panning per voice, and panning in the mod matrix give additional control and allows for sound design in the stereo field. Now you can create bigger, wider,and more intricately textured soundscapes.
Modulation and unpredictability: Create deeper and more experimental sounds with new mod destinations, noise as a mod source, and additional LFO 3 and 4 parameters. Animate Envelopes and Arpeggiator Chance open more creative performance possibilities.
Effects: New effects, including Chorus Modes, Flanger, and Phlanger add new tonalities. Additional effects modulation destinations open up more experimental sound design. A new Lo-Fi delay mode enables a more vintage style sound.
Bug Fixes: The firmware update v2.0 includes a number of bug fixes. The full details can be found in the release notes.
- 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.
Included Software: Ableton Live Lite
What's In The Box:
- Novation Summit Synthesizer
- USB cable
- Printed Getting Started Guide
- Power lead
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Enrique Martinez gives us a overview and a play-through demo of the Novation Summit:
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.… read more
Novation // Summit Performance:
What's New in Summit Firmware v2.0?
In Novation's biggest update for Summit, firmware update v2.0 brings in essential improvements and a multitude of features across stereo controls, modulation, unpredictability, and effects, that give you powerful tools to shape your sound.Stereo: New spread modes, panning per voice, and panning in the mod matrix give additional control and allows for sound design in the stereo field. Now you can create bigger, wider,and more intricately textured soundscapes.
Modulation and unpredictability: Create deeper and more experimental sounds with new mod destinations, noise as a mod source, and additional LFO 3 and 4 parameters. Animate Envelopes and Arpeggiator Chance open more creative performance possibilities.
Effects: New effects, including Chorus Modes, Flanger, and Phlanger add new tonalities. Additional effects modulation destinations open up more experimental sound design. A new Lo-Fi delay mode enables a more vintage style sound.
Bug Fixes: The firmware update v2.0 includes a number of bug fixes. The full details can be found in the release notes.
Features:
- 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.
Included Software: Ableton Live Lite
What's In The Box:
- Novation Summit Synthesizer
- USB cable
- Printed Getting Started Guide
- Power lead
Specs
- 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 +/-
- LFO 3 +/-
- LFO 4 +/-
- Amp envelope
- Mod envelope 1 & 2
- Animate 1 & 2
- CV +/-
- Bendwheel +/-
- Bend up
- Bend down
- FX Mod Matrix Destinations:
- Distortion level
- Chorus level
- Chorus rate
- Chorus depth
- Chorus feedback
- Delay level
- Delay time
- Delay feedback
- Reverb level
- Reverb time
- Reverb low pass
- Reverb high pass
- Misc.:
- FM controls on front panel
- Global LFO 3 & 4
- Arpeggiator with key latch - 33 patterns
- Patch storage - up to 512 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)
- All knobs (excl. volume), sliders and most buttons transmit and receive MIDI cc commands for external control and mapping
- Microtuning with Scala table import and table tuning creation
- Manual mode
- Multi pot mode: Relative, Pot pick-up, Snap
- Product Hardware Specifications:
- 50 control knobs
- 8 45mm sliders
- 1 volume knob
- 1 data encoder knob
- Rubberised knob caps with spun metal discs
- 55 function buttons
- 2 Animate buttons plus hold button
- OLED display
- Kensington Lock
- Power switch
- IEC power supply connector
- USB socket for system (MIDI comms only, no bus power)
- MIDI In / Out / Thru
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for continuous or switched pedals
- 1 3.5mm jack socket for CV in
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right outputs
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right auxiliary outputs
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right inputs
- 1/4" jack socket for headphone output
- Metal chassis with American walnut wooden end cheeks
- Metal magnetic inset end pieces
- Software Compatibility:
- Ableton Live Lite is included
- Summit is a USB-MIDI class compliant device
- Power Requirements:
- Maximum power consumption 1A
- 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 +/-
- LFO 3 +/-
- LFO 4 +/-
- Amp envelope
- Mod envelope 1 & 2
- Animate 1 & 2
- CV +/-
- Bendwheel +/-
- Bend up
- Bend down
- FX Mod Matrix Destinations:
- Distortion level
- Chorus level
- Chorus rate
- Chorus depth
- Chorus feedback
- Delay level
- Delay time
- Delay feedback
- Reverb level
- Reverb time
- Reverb low pass
- Reverb high pass
- Misc.:
- FM controls on front panel
- Global LFO 3 & 4
- Arpeggiator with key latch - 33 patterns
- Patch storage - up to 512 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)
- All knobs (excl. volume), sliders and most buttons transmit and receive MIDI cc commands for external control and mapping
- Microtuning with Scala table import and table tuning creation
- Manual mode
- Multi pot mode: Relative, Pot pick-up, Snap
- Product Hardware Specifications:
- 50 control knobs
- 8 45mm sliders
- 1 volume knob
- 1 data encoder knob
- Rubberised knob caps with spun metal discs
- 55 function buttons
- 2 Animate buttons plus hold button
- OLED display
- Kensington Lock
- Power switch
- IEC power supply connector
- USB socket for system (MIDI comms only, no bus power)
- MIDI In / Out / Thru
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for continuous or switched pedals
- 1 3.5mm jack socket for CV in
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right outputs
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right auxiliary outputs
- 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right inputs
- 1/4" jack socket for headphone output
- Metal chassis with American walnut wooden end cheeks
- Metal magnetic inset end pieces
- Software Compatibility:
- Ableton Live Lite is included
- Summit is a USB-MIDI class compliant device
- Power Requirements:
- Maximum power consumption 1A
- Dimensions and Weight in Packaging
- Base Item
- Shipping Weight: 31.25 lbs
- Shipping Dimensions: 44 x 17 x 7 in
- Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): Novation Summit
Reviews
Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars.
(1 ratings)
Submitted November 17, 2019 by Brandon G in Jensen, FL
"Absolutely amazing"
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One of the best purchases I’ve ever made for my musical endeavors.
Sound
This takes the Peak experience to a whole new level. Easily one of my favorite synths ever. I’ve no preference, analog or digital, but this is the best of both worlds, from bright electric pianos and Rhodes patches, to bi-timbral analog and wavetable combos, this synth is a performance monster and synthesis workhorse.
Features
Feature packed. If you’re browsing this synth you probably know... high res FPGA through analog circuitry with built in wavetables and varied arps.
Ease of Use
Easy peasy.
Quality
Keybed feels high quality, as enjoyable to use as Fatar, but less stiff, I wouldn’t say I prefer one over the other. For a poly synth, the lack of stiffness has its benefits. On a mono/para, I might prefer Fatar, but its no big deal. Aftertouch and velocity are perfectly sensitive. All knobs are rock solid, buttons as well, easy to navigate. This is a wide range tool, it does have the ability to sound harsh due to the vast scope of the frequency spectrum covered on FPGAs through analog circuitry. This is the cost of a high performance workhorse. I’ve used other digital oscillator synths through analog and they all seem to have this downside (Waldorf Quantum and DSI Pro 2). Essentially, you have to be very thorough and nuanced in your patching. Can route audio through it, has… read more more filter routings than the Peak, the list goes on. With some overdubbing this synth is the track finisher for music makers. Just experimental and expansive enough to get lost in, but not arbitrarily convoluted to the point it’s often unmusical. I chose this over the UDO Super 6 due to the feature : price ratio. The UDO is a bit more bread and butter, maybe down the road I’ll get one because as of now, I’m a hybrid fan.
Value
Got this for an insane price match too at $1,693, an absolute steal for an absolute unit. A SINGLE Peak brand new is $1,399...........
Manufacturer Support
Novation has an amazing history of supporting their products years after release and I expect the same here. The software comes with a ton of free patch banks, patch storage is insanely easy, 512 patches available on the Summit, and 512 multi patches, you can wiggle your way into 1,536 separate patches on the unit at once.
The Wow Factor
Yes. It wowe.
Musical Background:
Musician for many years, new to home recording
Musical Style:
Experimental electronic, psych rock read less
Sound
This takes the Peak experience to a whole new level. Easily one of my favorite synths ever. I’ve no preference, analog or digital, but this is the best of both worlds, from bright electric pianos and Rhodes patches, to bi-timbral analog and wavetable combos, this synth is a performance monster and synthesis workhorse.
Features
Feature packed. If you’re browsing this synth you probably know... high res FPGA through analog circuitry with built in wavetables and varied arps.
Ease of Use
Easy peasy.
Quality
Keybed feels high quality, as enjoyable to use as Fatar, but less stiff, I wouldn’t say I prefer one over the other. For a poly synth, the lack of stiffness has its benefits. On a mono/para, I might prefer Fatar, but its no big deal. Aftertouch and velocity are perfectly sensitive. All knobs are rock solid, buttons as well, easy to navigate. This is a wide range tool, it does have the ability to sound harsh due to the vast scope of the frequency spectrum covered on FPGAs through analog circuitry. This is the cost of a high performance workhorse. I’ve used other digital oscillator synths through analog and they all seem to have this downside (Waldorf Quantum and DSI Pro 2). Essentially, you have to be very thorough and nuanced in your patching. Can route audio through it, has… read more more filter routings than the Peak, the list goes on. With some overdubbing this synth is the track finisher for music makers. Just experimental and expansive enough to get lost in, but not arbitrarily convoluted to the point it’s often unmusical. I chose this over the UDO Super 6 due to the feature : price ratio. The UDO is a bit more bread and butter, maybe down the road I’ll get one because as of now, I’m a hybrid fan.
Value
Got this for an insane price match too at $1,693, an absolute steal for an absolute unit. A SINGLE Peak brand new is $1,399...........
Manufacturer Support
Novation has an amazing history of supporting their products years after release and I expect the same here. The software comes with a ton of free patch banks, patch storage is insanely easy, 512 patches available on the Summit, and 512 multi patches, you can wiggle your way into 1,536 separate patches on the unit at once.
The Wow Factor
Yes. It wowe.
Musical Background:
Musician for many years, new to home recording
Musical Style:
Experimental electronic, psych rock read less
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