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Built on the formidable foundation of Novation’s renowned Peak synth module (a Sweetwater favorite), Summit is a 2-part, 16-voice synthesizer with three oscillators per voice, aimed at the professional or semiprofessional musician seeking a powerful, inspiring 61-note keyboard synth for onstage and studio deployment. Summit puts the power of two Peaks right at your fingertips, letting you split or layer two completely independent patches across the keyboard, or switch between them on the fly. Summit also expands on Peak’s layout, with many additional controls and functions accessible on the front panel ? including FM routing, LFOs 3 and 4, complete arpeggiator parameters, and more ? plus pitch and mod wheels. Summit also features numerous new filter options and an audio input for processing external sources through its reverb, chorus, and delay FX.





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Gloriously vibrant analog sound





The beating heart of Summit is its three digital New Oxford Oscillators per voice, hosted on the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip. As well as generating authentically analog-sounding waveforms at ultra-high resolution, this architecture also facilitates FM and wavetable synthesis that delivers rich, harmonically complex, and highly textured raw tones. Each voice has a true stereo signal path with dual analog filters, three stages of analog distortion, and analog voltage-controlled amplifiers; while a wealth of modulation assignment options and colorful per-part effects (distortion, chorus, delay, and reverb) add movement, verve, and polish to your patches.





Powerful new Wavetable Editor





Novation has come out with a powerful new Wavetable Editor for Summit that unleashes the full power potential of its wavetable oscillators. The Wavetable Editor is packed with functionality to speed up your creative process, including intuitive drawing tools and a Live Edit mode that let you literally draw your own oscillator shapes and preview them ? all in real time! Quickly create your own oscillator waveforms from imported clips with the Audio Import function. You'll also find an expertly curated collection of space-themed audio direct from the NASA sound library, plus exclusive content from top EDM producers Noisia. The Wavetable Editor makes Summit more powerful than ever ? inother great reason to add this advanced synth to your sonic arsenal!





The latest firmware: v2.0





Ever the innovators, Novation pride themselves on the work done by Chris Huggett, who lent his iconic design expertise in sculpting synths and sounds with the company, including the Peak and Summit. As such, firmware updates expand the already-robust features for greater creative freedom and flexibility. Navigate stylishly texturized soundscapes of any scale with new stereo shaping tools, including per-voice panning as well as panning in the mod matrix, letting you cultivate the sonic land as you see fit. Modulation opportunities abound with the addition of new mod destinations, using noise as a mod source and more parameters for LFO 3 and 4. Use these tools to harness a rich unpredictability, augmented by the introduction of Animate Envelopes and Arpeggiator Chance features. New chorus modes, flanger, and phlanger are included in the expanded effects, with additional modulation destinations letting you experiment with sound design in previously unavailable ways, like the vintage panache of the Lo-Fi delay.





Novation Summit 61-key Polyphonic Keyboard Synthesizer Features:


Premium 5-octave semi-weighted keybed with velocity sensitivity and aftertouch


2-part multitimbral 16-voice polyphonic synthesizer


Hybrid architecture: "Digital where it counts, Analog where it matters"


Multitimbral engine for splitting, stacking, and switching between 2 simultaneous patches


3 NCO New Oxford Oscillators per voice, enabling subtractive, wavetable or FM synthesis


Dual analog filters, analog VCAs, and 3 stages of analog distortion per voice


Per-voice analog multimode 12/24dB filters with Dual mode


Per-part arpeggiator and effects (distortion, chorus, delay, and reverb)


Powerful new Wavetable Editor unleashes the full power of the oscillators


Stereo audio in routable to onboard effects and aux outputs


Includes Ableton Live Lite DAW software


USB-MIDI class-compliant


3-year warranty


Weight: 23.46 pounds