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Oct 14, 2017
Amazing powerhouse synthesizer!
Having owned a used a number of VA synths and any number of VST's I finally picked up an Novation Ultranova. I never owned anything from Novation before so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
What an amazing instrument! This is a synth designed by master synth designers and enthusiasts not by a committee of marketeers. Ultra was not just silly marketing ploy. Most synths are carefully designed to be just interesting enough while NOT including many features that will make you buy the bigger machines the company makes.
Not this one.
Just about everything including the kitchen SYNC was thrown into the design. You can just picture the designers filling up whiteboards with all the stuff they wanted to put in because they really wanted to make a cool instrument.
If you're just into presets, then you'll have to demo the Ultranova to decide. Like most synths some presets are great but many serve as tech demos to show what the synth can do. Most of those voices would never be good in a mix. If you're a synth enthusiast who likes to create their own sounds this machine will not disappoint. All sorts of unique sound shaping features await you. Rarely do you find anywhere near this kind of depth outside of a modular or some crazy VST like Bazille. Don't be fooled, with a 40 source, 20 destination modulation matrix this thing practically IS a modular.
Each OSC is identical. No weird jumble of semi-similar oscillators with limitations you have to work around. All the basic analog waves, quite a few digital waves and morphable wave tables! Each OSC has it's own SYNC oscillator. Density and Detune give each oscillator a form of Unison without hitting polyphony. Two sets of oscillators have RING mod outputs as well and the Noise source is entirely separate.
There are two very flexible identical filters and each oscillator has it's own filter of sorts called "hardness" which can also be modulated. The 2 main filters have a number of pre-filter distortion models to fatten things up and get a very analog sound. Of course you can throw in OSC drift and phase offset as well to the free-running oscillators.
SIX Looping, repeating Envelopes!
Three single shot or looping LFO's with basic waves and sequences and wave shaping.
Touch controls to animate the sounds during a performance
A solid professional key bed. Much better than most little synths.
Quick, intuitive, front panel editing with features like OSC solo AND an excellent VST editor that controls the synth like a plugin.
Oh yeah... a nice vocoder, chord and arpeggiator functions as well.
The list goes on and on. Try to find all this in another synth that doesn't cost $2500.
If you are capable of moving beyond presets, this little beast will keep you busy for many many hours.
No, I don't work for Novation and they didn't give me anything to write this. It's just a great synth and probably one of the best values in keyboards period.