Novation Peak Polyphonic Synthesizer

Studio And Recording

$2000

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SKUPeak Polyphonic Synthesizer

Genuine products Studio-tested gear

About this product

Peak is an eight-voice desktop polyphonic synthesiser built around New Oxford Oscillators that combine the best of analogue sound and digital flexibility – including inbuilt and custom digital wavetables. With a resonant multi-mode analogue filter for each voice, and three separate points of distortion per voice, it’s truly the best of both worlds.
Polyphonic aftertouch, an extensive mod matrix, and two dedicated Animate buttons allow for endlessly expressive performances, while lush onboard reverb, delay and chorus round off a formidable addition to any sound designer’s arsenal.
Digital where it counts – Digital FPGA-generated New Oxford Oscillators for analogue-style, wavetable and FM synthesis
Analogue where it matters – an analogue filter, analogue VCAs and three stages of analogue distortion per voice
High-quality digital effects – stunning reverb, delay, and chorus effects are instantly accessible via the effects section
Extensive modulation system – 16-slot modulation matrix and 16 direct assignments controllable from the front panel
Wavetable Editor – featuring drawing tools and a Live Edit mode, so you can draw your own oscillator shapes and preview them in real time

Specifications

The details.

CH / General

Overview

42 Control knobs

8 35mm Sliders

1 Volume knob

2 Data encoders

Rubberised knob caps with spun metal discs

30 Function buttons (not lit)

16 Function buttons (lit)

2 Animate buttons plus hold button

90 Indicator LEDs

OLED display

Kensington Security Slot

Power switch

Power supply connector

USB B 2.0 / MIDI comms only (no bus-power)

MIDI In / Out / Thru

2 1/4" jack socket for continuous or switched pedals

3.5mm jack socket for CV in

1/4" jack sockets for left and right outputs

1/4" jack socket for headphone output

Metal chassis with American walnut wooden end cheeks

Metal magnetic inset end pieces

Dimensions

Width	233mm
Depth	464mm
Height	70.5mm

Software compatibility

Ableton Live Lite is included

Peak is a USB-MIDI class compliant device

Power requirements

Maximum power consumption 12V DC 1A

Synth engine

8 voice polyphonic (voice modes available unison etc.)

Mono-Timbral

5 Voice Modes - Mono, MonoLG, Mono2, Poly, Poly2

Per voice

3 oscillators

1 noise generator

1 ring modulator

2 LFOs

1 Amp envelope and 2 mod envelopes

1 Filter

Waveforms include

Sine, tri, sawtooth, square / pulse plus 17 wavetables of 5 waveforms per row

Filter

1x State variable OTA filter per voice

12/24dB slope

Low-pass / band-pass / high-pass

Pre-filter overdrive

Post-filter distortion

Modulation

16 modulation slots per patch

Each slot has 2 sources to 1 destination

Effects

Analogue distortion

Chorus - 3 types

Delay with 16 types of delay sync, LP and HP damping, slew and stereo

Reverb - 3 types

Misc

Arpeggiator w/ key latch – 33 patterns

Patch storage - up to 512 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)

Glide

All knobs (excl. volume), sliders and most buttons transmit and receive MIDI cc commands for external control and mapping