The Novation UltraNova is equally at home on the stage and in the studio and represents the next generation of Novation's iconic synth family, which brought you the legendary SuperNova and SuperNova II. It has a 37-note Fatar keybed, illuminated pitch and modulation wheels, eight assignable touch-sensitive rotary encoders, a 144-character LCD, and a large knob for fine control of parameters. Under the hood, UltraNova's arpeggiator, vocoder and USB audio interface make it incredibly useful for today's music makers, and bus powering lets you put it at the centre of your stage or studio rig.
UltraNova's single-part synth engine can employ wavetables alongside conventional subtractive synthesis. It has three oscillators with density and detune controls, two ring modulators, a noise source, two filters, six envelopes, three LFOs, five assignable effects slots, and much more. On-board effects include distortion, chorus/phaser, delay, reverb, and gator plus compression and EQ. Its intuitive top-panel layout helps to make tweaking UltraNova's parameters simple, with dedicated buttons providing quick and easy navigation. What's more, a free plug-in editor provides easy access to the synth's controls and patches (300 factory-loaded, 200 user), from within your music software.
UltraNova's secret weapon is its Touch feature, a unique system that brings a new level of performance control to synth players. Hit the Touch button and the eight encoders become receptive to finger contact. These touches can control modulators and envelopes within the synth engine, so dramatic modulations can be performed with the touch of a finger. With the corresponding Tweak feature — which allows you to group your favourite parameters to the rotary controls for on-the-fly patch manipulation — and a large knob for extra-fine tweaking, you literally have total control of the synth at your fingertips.
The main features of the Novation UltraNova include:
cool and modern virtual analog synth, full of features and with an overall
good and fresh sound, dont be fooled by the apperance, its build in plastic
but quality hard plastic
very well done.
A lot o wavetables, multistages envelopes, a complete and deep editor capable of
patch storage and transfer with your PC/MAC, 8 touch sense controlls with conductive
rubber, capables of trigger and retrigger modes, vocoder with mic, 4 audio outputs and a stereo in
for plug you guitar or external instr. to be processed with the internal effects or
the many filters available
and an audio inteface too, all comes with a reasonble price, and with a coupon for automap
if you are interested
very cool!
Im a basplayer and wanted to by the Novation Basstation to play some of my stuff whith a synthsound. It is not in the store yet so I bought this one instead, and its just great ... just love it ... much fun. I have no eksperience with synths, so I cant compare it with anything, yet. It works great with Studio One 2, thanks to the USB interface. I play my bastrack with my bas, then use Melodyne to create a separate miditrack ... then let my DAW pick up the sounds from the synth. I can now consentrate on tweaking the sounds, and I dont need to play at all ... just doing the fun stuff. It sounds just GREAT.