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EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:37 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical ... oscillator

db3 · Post by **db3** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:37 pm

Novation Peak With Engineer Nick Bookman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEHlK7HE00

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:45 pm

EvilDragon wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical ... oscillator

I was looking at that article before I posted my question.

That article doesn't really focus on usage of NCOs in music synthesizers, in layman's terms

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:58 pm

It has over 55 controls, the ultranova has 9 encoders. it is also made of metal.

I also find the price justified given what it offers, it is more versatile than the DM12, and below prophet 08 rev2 prices.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:12 pm

Numanoid wrote:That article doesn't really focus on usage of NCOs in music synthesizers, in layman's terms

For starters, with NCOs there's no fear of aliasing, AFAIK, since the DAC coming after the phase accumulator smoothes things out.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:25 pm

So why doesn't more synths come with NCOs, are they costly?

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:31 pm

Sounds incredible. Massive step up from anything else they've done.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:41 pm

Numanoid wrote:So why doesn't more synths come with NCOs, are they costly?

Definitely not as costly as a VCO, but they do demand having a clock per voice, and a DAC per voice.

As to why don't more synths use it, you're better off asking the vendors themselves

db3 · Post by **db3** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:36 pm

The FPGA and NCOs are covered here:
https://uk.novationmusic.com/peak-explained

Detailed review with video:
https://ask.audio/articles/novation-rel ... pth-review

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:49 pm

Dope! Synthesizers are actually getting exciting again. The big three had best catch up if they want in on this.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:17 am

can
not
wait

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:33 am

Very nice mid-segment synth. Has all the conventional features I can think of. Doesn't have any unusual or extra features, however - except for these two performance buttons.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:06 am

Igot both the Novation Ultranova and Bass Station 2 here and the new Peak looks very interesting indeed.
Would be interesting to hear more details about the wavetables
ULtranova besides standard VA waveforms has 36 wavetables and a bunch of single digital waveforms.

The complexity of the synth engine seems to be somewhere between the Bass Statio n2 and Ultranova.
FWIW i do not think this could really replace the Ultranova while not every new synth must replace the all eaiier ones. Not sure how far Peak could be a replacement for the monophonic Bass Station 2.

The analog multimode filter in Peak in terms of versatility seems to be superior to many other analog polysynth or vintage hybrid synths like e.g. SQ-80 which mostly have a single Lowpass filter.
Bass Station 2 has a comparable multimode filter. I do not know how far they used the same circuits or not.

waiting man · Post by **waiting man** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:28 am

Yeah, curious too to hear this BassStation heritage, but so far it's getting some attention

Also, the "massive amount of distortion"...yum.

Are the two "performance buttons" something from the ultra?

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:19 am

So it has 8 voices running at 20 MHz.

I always wondered why nowdays it's a big deal to have polyphonic synth running at something like 88,2 kHz. No one has tried to use FPGA for that purpose before?

Peak by Novation