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It goes on sale tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled...

Great, thanks for replying.

really hope that stand can be bought after release!

Yeah it's stupid.

Pads without in view 88 key like facilities means the pads melodic range is limited which is my main problem with ableton push but it's great for drum and beats wish they use a fucking keyboard an play like musictrackjp

My thoughts as well looks like the JP 8080

$1299.99 / £1249

Moog Sub 37 is nothing like this ( I own the Sub 37.) Sub 37 is a mono analog. Quite a different thing IMO! Deepmind 12 is more of traditional poly analog synth ( with some modern features I am sure.) I am not a deepmind expert, I just know it's similar in architecture to many 2 oscillator poly analogs. This Peak is a Hybrid with purely digital oscillators and analog filter. IMO, it would make more sense to compare it to the Prophet 12 Desktop. If you asked that question, I can state the P12 can do stuff this can't, but I am sure the opposite is true.

it looks really close doesn't it.. will be a bit of a mess up if it can't be fitted with ears!

I'm pretty sure I saw that Novation will have their own rack for it

Also my question, google no helpy.

The measurements on their specs page show it slightly too wide for a rack, BUT that depends if they're including the wooden sides or not. It'd take up about 5.24U

That was a big mistake by DSI on the OB6, considering its possible without wood sides I believe novation have thought that through.

Both. I have DM12 and just preordered this. They sound completely different and have different applications. This is a better all arounder though. The DM12 just has so much character that it's hard to compare it to this.

DM 6 plus Waldorf Blofeld or Virus C.

You need to listen and listen and listen and the synth that have the best sound and make you smile the most then that is the one you need. Never ask others what synth you will like, only you know that. I bought the DM12, I might get this one later but not at that price, this will be a second hand purchase for sure. I think it is around 500€ too expensive. The Deepmind is amazing, cheap, nice built, wonderful sound, 12 voices and great effects and you can use 4 effects at the same time. Deep modulation also in it, it depends if you want a true warm analog sound or a more digital harsher sound polished with an analog filter.

Waldorf has a new synth on the way too called Quantum.

Meld $$$$$$

This one is true analog though, yes?

Digital oscillators and analog filters.

Rarren Doe it's not expensive.

Ed Sheeran haha

LOL....I think it’s a Novation device. Can do some MIDI sequencing or something. Can’t believe they’d okay demoing the synth without a keyboard.

It's a launch pad - which supports poly after-touch; a feature most keyboards don't. I'd quite like to try one out instead of my regular keyboard.

most? i dont know any whom does. and not channel after touch thats crap.

Button Pusher Hipster!

It's not ridiculously expensive, but you can get some really good quality stuff for the the same or cheaper. DeepMind 12, Roland JD-Xi, Korg Minilogue, The Prophet 12 desktop isn't much more expensive either. It''s a really nifty synth, but it's a little expensive.

Mechanought The Prophet 12 desktop is $500 more new ($1800), cost more than that when it launched, and has very few front panel controls, especially compared to the Peak. The JD-Xi can't even really be compared, as it's a separate single VCO analog synth plus a digital poly section; you can't route the digital voices through the analog filter. The Minilogue is analog (so already different use case - it's not a hybrid), and has half the voices. It's also from Korg, a very large company. Novation may not be small, but I don't think they're Korg big. The Deepmind 12 is a DCO analog poly, and is indeed a good value, but again, very different from the Peak. Behringer is also a large company. And really, this isn't expensive. Synths in general can be much more than that - even completely digital ones. Roland's System 8 is even like $1500. Novation is offering us a synth with 8 voices, 24 total digital oscillators with a variety of waves and features (and possible future upgrades/changes), 8 analog VCFs, 8 analog VCAs, great modulation options (2 LFOs and 3 EGs per voice, the oscs can modulate each other or the filter, and there's a flexible mod matrix), and more, all in a module with a fantastic UI, for $1300. And just to mention it, I'm not rich or anything - the most I've spent on a synth so far was $500 when the Bass Station II came out in 2013, and I've bought used a lot. Prices are relative, and when you compare the price and value (so keeping in mind features) to other synths, the Peak is actually priced pretty well. I know this is a long comment, but I keep seeing people claim it's overpriced or something, while ironically giving things like the Prophet 12 a pass (or even using it as an example). It's really not bad, and as a lover of hybrids, options in waveforms and modulation, and knobby UIs, I'm really looking forward to it. Their BS2 was a great value, and it looks like that will be true of the Peak.

This is way overpriced... Behringer just showed that it's totally possible to do a 12 voice analog synth, with all the bell and whistles of digital, for less than US$1000. If this novation synth were US$499 it would be reasonable price. Not to mention it looks like most plastic.

I'm the first to crib a RRP, but in reality, this is a $699 synth, given what it is. I don't really care about all this wood nonsense, it just bumps up the price, just so people think it's a vintage look. If people want a bit of wood, they should fashion two cheeks, and glue them on.

Exactly what I thought. I think it sounds really good and have potentials, but cost twice as much as expected.

you're broke huh? bummer

agauerm no

Its $1200

It's a 3 oscillator 8 voice hybrid synth... what is out there for less than 1300? This is dirt cheap for what it is.

People seem to have no clue synths used to cost a fortune not long ago. I laugh when I see people think $1000 synths are overpriced. What would they have said back in the 1970s when synths cost what a car did? In the 1980s it was only slightly improved. I suspect it's because people do two weird things. One they compare hardware to software prices, which makes zero sense. The other they assume that 'analog' is some magical word that means a synth is more worth it. People suffer from some weird analog disorder. I loved the old Roland Analog synths from the 1980s, but so what? They were so limited in sound palette. My Blofeld and Prophet 12 are so much more interesting to me. My Sub 37 is lovely, for what it is. But it's limited

I have to agree Michael, for the price I think it's good value especially now I've had a chance to try one out, it sounds good, is really flexible and the 'verb is so lush. I'm tempted to sell my Blofeld and/or Sub 37.

ah yes, the salad days...

Jollo Jakar analog filters.

Don't forget to flag as distasteful content. Demoing a polyphonic digi/analog synth on a fucking Launchpad. Won't someone please think of the children.

Gyrbae But itz cuwl. Glowz and shinez like a lightbulb. But well, I cant really complain, I dont have a single MIDI Controller :(

launchpad is isomorphic and isomorphic keyboards are the future, learning chords and scales 12 times on classical keyboards is a useless hassle.

... You're probably serious.

Yep I'm serious and I don't see what's wrong with what I said. Of course Launchpad can't compete in terms of expressiveness. Those pads even with velocity aren't good at it, having 0 travel depth isn't practical for that. But there are a few solutions that does it right like Opal and Continuum. Continuum looks like a piano keyboard but is actually isomorphic : all notes take the same space and are on a regular placement. Those are expensive but if it was popular enough, large scale production would set the price on par with standard midi keyboards. And if launchpad was on a road to set a standard this could happen. It would make music so much easier to access and learn. Playing on an actual piano is nice and all but it's for those who can afford it, just an elitist idea.

he's here every Tuesday night, folks

Pete Tews vst's last about 5 years. Hardware lasts a LIFETIME.

No it doesn't....

I agree, in fact I've just gone DAWless except for mastering. Hardware is so much more inspiring and immediate - I found it soul destroying poking things around with a mouse.

8 is pretty good. People have done great things with mono even. Sure, if you buy a Motif or similar, you get 100 voices. But that's all digital. This needs voice boards with filter chips or whatever, so like the Prophet 12, is limited by more than DSP. I don't understand how people don't realize there's a limit to voices when you start having to push them through analog filters. Prophet 12 is one of the best at 12 voices. Deep mind 12 also does 12 voices. But the DM12 is a poly analog, and this is a hybrid.

Michael Bauers supernova had 48.

spacezignul it sounds dope

but the interface sucks, the knobs are shit, the software is glitchy and the sound.. well thats rather subjective, but to me it sounds too thin.. but its pretty cheap

The interface is actually excellent. It's just not knobby. Tons of indepth feedback from the display. My Blofeld has no bugs or issues and the knobs work perfectly (admittedly after I had one replaced under warranty). The sound can be a warm as you like with programming. But it would be nice if it had more knobs, I agree on that. At the price it's impossible to beat in my eyes.

MUNRO MUSIC doesn't the voice count drop significantly if the fun things, wavetables, are used?

Blofeld has digital OSCs and filters, right? 25 voices is nothing to brag about.

In fact once you start adding modulation blofeld voice count starts going down. So nope 25 voices all the time. The Ultranova has more power nevertheless.

Name it's direct competitor that's cheaper with same feature set. I can't, and I am not any sort of Novation fan boy. It's a bit unique. It's more than a Blofeld, but has some stuff Blofeld lacks, especially the large number of direct access controls ( which is a big deal for some people wanting to mess with sound in real time.) It's a bit like the DSI Prophet 12; I would say it's most like the Prophet 12, but at a cheaper price. It has stuff the P12 lacks, but lacks stuff the P12 has. I would not say it's P12 on a budget, but it IS cheaper than the P12 desktop. As for price, synths are at an all time low for pricing overall. People used to pay thousands in the 1980s, when thousands was a lot more money. If it uses quality encoders, and the firmware isn't buggy, pricing seems fair to me.

EightySix analog is overrated and limited.

TIT.

sounds like any other novation synth, in fact it even looks like...

Just because this is a hybrid synth doesn't mean it's a piece of software. I've never heard a VST that can get this sort of sonic quality. Synths like Diva and Zebra by u-He are incredible, but they'll never have the life and personality of the real thing.

I liked it. Why do people compare hybrids to analog though? Not the same thing. You want analog, buy analog. I have found analog more limiting, but to each his/her own :) I barely use my Sub 37, but love my Blofeld and Prophet 12.

Moms Spagheddi digital synths are great too.