Novation Summit Polyphonic Synthesizer Overview
Powerful, deep and intuitive multi-timbral 16-voice polyphonic synth with studio-quality built-in effects that can cover FM, wavetable and analogue-style synthesis.
Incredible Flagship Synth
Summit’s digital New Oxford Oscillators offer subtractive, FM and wavetable synthesis, and feed into genuine analogue dual filters, distortion and VCAs. The multitimbral engine enables the merging and combining of two complete and independent patches, while up to 16 simultaneous voices deliver enough harmonic depth for even the richest of pads.
The best-sounding synthesiser Novation has ever made
Summit doubles the power of Peak’s digital New Oxford Oscillators up to 16 voices and two parts, and adds a wealth of new features and a premium-quality five-octave keyboard. A synth much greater than the sum of its parts, it gives the serious producer or performer everything they need to design and play stunning basses, leads, arps, pads, effects and beyond.
Totally tactile sound design
Summit takes Peak’s architecture and workflow to new heights, with a swathe of extra front panel controls for hands-on wrangling of FM, effects, LFOs and more; dual filters with six LP/HP/BP combinations; audio input for processing external sources with the onboard effects; and auxiliary audio outputs.
Analogue where it matters
The true stereo analogue signal path comprises dual analogue multimode filters, analogue VCAs and three stages of analogue distortion – pre- and post-filter, and post-VCA. With roots in the legendary OSCar, via Bass Station II, Summit’s analogue credentials are truly impressive.
Wavetable Editor
The Wavetable Editor unleashes the power of the wavetable oscillators. It features drawing tools and a Live Edit mode, so you can draw your own oscillator shapes and preview them in real time. Audio import lets you load in your own audio to be used as the oscillator waveform. Included is a curated selection of space-themed audio from the NASA sound library, plus exclusive content from production giants Noisia.
Summit Firmware Update v2.0
In Novation’s biggest update for Summit, firmware update v2.0 brings a multitude of features across stereo controls, modulation and unpredictability, and effects, that give you powerful tools to shape your sound.
Create more intricately textured soundscapes with updated stereo controls. Experiment with expansive sound design with modulation and unpredictability. A range of effects improvements bring new tonalities with the addition of Chorus Modes, Flanger, Phlanger, new effects modulation destinations and Lo-Fi delay.
- Two-part multitimbral 16-voice polyphonic synthesiser,
- Three NCO New Oxford Oscillators per voice, enabling subtractive, wavetable or FM synthesis,
- Analogue multimode 12/24dB filter per voice with Dual mode,
- Five-octave semi-weighted, premium keybed with velocity sensitivity and aftertouch, Per-part effects: distortion, chorus, delay and reverb,
- Stereo audio-in routable to onboard effects and aux outputs.
- Ableton Live Lite music making software
- Novation Summit Synthesiser
- 1 x USB cable
- 1 x Printed Getting Started Guide
- 1 x 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
- 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
- * 3 reverb types
- 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)
- * Glide control
- * 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
- * 2 1/4" jack socket for headphone output
- * Metal chassis with American walnut wooden end cheeks
- * Metal magnetic inset end pieces
- Wherever you happen to be in the world, you can rely on a three-year warranty if any Novation hardware needs repairing or replacing due to a manufacturing fault.
