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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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What a unit! I love it. It's one of the better pieces of gear I've owned over the last 15 years or so. It is so user-friendly. As a hands on, knob-tweaking multi-timbral unit, it shines. I'm using Cubase a sampler, and an ALesis QS 8.1 as my controller, and I couldn't have found a better piece of gear to complete my setup. I also have a Korg Z1 which, being a mighty powerful synth in it's own right, is not near the multi-timbral unit that the Nova is. Several outs, 6-part mult-timbral, with each part having it's own effect routings, excellent sounds, and superb real-time controls makes it an indisensable tool in my rig. If you don't like the presets, then grab a knob and get your hands dirty editing them. It looks cool, has a lot of lights and Novation is very good about updating and upgrading their products. I highly recommend this unit.
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and actually the filter resolution probably is 16-bit
just the knob is 7-bit. any higher than that would probably be useless anyway because it would jump between values.
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Actuly the knob resulution is 7-bit '00-7Fh'or '0-127' values. Just thought to let you kno.
Stephanie sez "Just that we would like to have a 16 bits precision filter instead of a 8 bits one"
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Definitely the best synth I have bought (I also have a juno 106, an emu esi-32 and a roland xp-80 and until recently an akai ax-73). Some notes about the sound: Very nice analog emulation but more on the digital side than on the analogue one. A true analogue synth sounds quite differently (even the Juno 106, which is a analogue synth with digital OSCs). But what's the point ? For a decent price you get everything you need to make almost any kind of music: 6 parts, 6*3 oscillators, 6*2 ring mods, saw/tri/square LFOs, 130 modulations possibilities, syncable LFOs, dozens of simultaneous effects ... and a very good vocoder too ! I just found myself filtering a guitar with the included input for hours and hours. Oh, did I forgot to mention the arpeggiator ?? Get it. You cannot go wrong. The only cons I can find is that you can hear some filter stepping when playing with the filter knob but it's not really annoying. Just that we would like to have a 16 bits precision filter instead of a 8 bits one...
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If you love the Juno 60 or 106, this is the VA for you.
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