Novation Summit and Peak Update

Novation has launched its biggest update for Summit and Peak

Novation has just launched its biggest update for Summit and Peak. Firmware v2.0 brings in essential improvements and a multitude of features across stereo controls, modulation, unpredictability, and effects, that give Summit and Peak owners powerful tools to shape their sound.

Summit and Peak owners will now be able to create bigger, wider, and more intricately textured soundscapes with updated stereo controls. Experiment with expansive sound design with modulation and unpredictability. A range of effects improvements brings new tonalities with the addition of Chorus Modes, Flanger, Phlanger, new effects modulation destinations and Lo-Fi delay.

Stereo

Includes new spread modes, panning per voice, and panning in the mod matrix give additional control and allows for sound design in the stereo field.

The ability to create bigger, wider, and more intricately textured soundscapes.

Modulation and unpredictability

Users can 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 while additional effects modulation destinations open up more experimental sound design.

A new Lo-Fi delay mode enables a more vintage style sound.

Summit and Peak firmware v2.0 is the last addition to the legacy of Chris Huggett’s innovative synth design work with Novation, having shaped the sound of Novation’s iconic synths – including Bass Station, Supernova, Bass Station II, Summit and Peak.

For those unfamiliar with Peak and Summit, Peak is an eight-voice polyphonic synthesiser that boasts rich and warm sounds, while Summit is a two-part, 16-voice, 61-key synthesiser with great harmonic depth.