Novation Summit 16-Voice Polyphonic Synthesizer Keyboard

Built on the innovative foundations of our critically acclaimed Peak synthesiser, Summit is a three-oscillator-per-voice, 16-voice keyboard synth that aims to inspire, empower, whether on stage or in the studio. Its Digital New Oxford Oscillators combine the best of analogue sound and digital flexibility – including inbuilt and custom digital wavetables.

Effectively placing the power of two Peaks at your fingertips, Summit allows two completely independent patches to be split or layered across the keyboard or switched between on the fly. It also expands on Peak's layout, with many additional controls and functions now accessible on the front panel.

• Peak powered up — the acclaimed Peak architecture taken to the next level, with 16 voices, expanded controls, new filter options, and more
• Digital where it counts — digital FPGA-generated New Oxford Oscillators for analogue-style, wavetable and FM synthesis
• Analogue where it matters — dual analogue filters, analogue VCAs and three stages of analogue distortion per voice
• Two sounds at once — multitimbral engine for splitting, stacking and switching between two simultaneous patches
• Wavetable Editor — featuring drawing tools and a Live Edit mode, so you can draw your own oscillator shapes and preview them in real time.

Overview
• 50 control knobs
• 8 45mm sliders
• 1 volume knob
• 1 data encoder knob
• Rubberised knob caps with spun metal discs
• 55 function buttons
• 2 Animate buttons plus hold button
• OLED display
• Kensington Lock
• Power switch
• IEC power supply connector
• USB socket for system (MIDI comms only, no bus power)
• MIDI In / Out / Thru
• 2 1/4" jack sockets for continuous or switched pedals
• 1 3.5mm jack socket for CV in
• 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right outputs
• 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right auxiliary outputs
• 2 1/4" jack sockets for left and right inputs
• 1/4" jack socket for headphone output
• Metal chassis with American walnut wooden end cheeks
• Metal magnetic inset end pieces

Dimensions
• Width: 998.5mm
• Depth: 92mm
• Height: 303.5mm

Software compatibility
• Ableton Live Lite is included
• Summit is a USB-MIDI class compliant device

Power requirements
• Maximum power consumption 1A

Synth engine
• 16 note polyphony (dependent on voices used per note)
• 2-part-timbral
• Layered, Split, Dual Bi-Timbral Modes
• 5 Voice Modes - Mono, MonoLG, Mono2, Poly, Poly2

Per voice
• 3 oscillators
• 1 noise generator with HP filter control
• 1 ring modulator
• 2 LFOs
• 1 amp envelope and 2 mod envelopes (ADHSR + looping)
• 1 filter

Waveforms include
• Sine, tri, sawtooth, square / pulse, plus 43 wavetables of 5 waveforms per row

Filter
• 1 state variable OTA filter per voice
• 12/24dB slope
• Low-pass / band-pass / high-pass / dual filter (separation of each 12dB filters)
• dual filter: LP > HP, LP > BP, HP > BP, LP + HP, LP + BP, HP + BP, LP + LP, BP + BP, and HP + HP
• Pre-filter overdrive
• Post-filter distortion

Modulation
• 16 modulation slots per patch
• 2 sources per destination per slot

Mod sources
• Direct (depth)
• Modulation wheel
• Aftertouch (polyphonic and channel AT)
• Expression pedal 1
• Expression pedal 2
• Keyboard velocity
• LFO1 positive
• LFO1 bi-polar
• LFO2 positive
• LFO2 bi-polar
• Amp envelope
• Mod envelope 1
• Mod envelope 2
• Animate 1
• Animate 2
• CV mod input bi-polar
• Bend Up
• Bend Down

Mod destinations
• Oscillator 1-3 frequency, v-sync level, shape amount and level
• Noise source level
• Ring modulator output level
• Overall synth output level
• Filter drive, distortion, cut-off frequency and resonance
• LFO 1 and 2 frequency
• Amp env / mod env 1 / mod env 2 attack, decay and release
• FM Osc 1 -> osc 2, osc 2 -> osc 3, osc 3 -> osc 1 and noise -> osc 1
• Osc 3 -> filter cutoff frequency
• Noise -> filter cutoff frequency

Effects
• FX are per part
• Analogue distortion
• 3 chorus types
• Delay with 16 types of delay sync, LP and HP damping, slew and stereo

FX Mod Matrix source
• Direct (depth)
• Mod wheel
• Aftertouch
• Expression pedal 1
• Expression/breath pedal 2
• Velocity
• Keyboard
• LFO 1 +/-
• LFO 2 +/-
• LFO 3 +/-
• LFO 4 +/-
• Amp envelope
• Mod envelope 1 & 2
• Animate 1 & 2
• CV +/-
• Bendwheel +/-
• Bend up
• Bend down

FX Mod Matrix destinations
• Distortion level
• Chorus level
• Chorus rate
• Chorus depth
• Chorus feedback
• Delay level
• Delay time
• Delay feedback
• Reverb level
• Reverb time
• Reverb low pass
• Reverb high pass

Misc.
• FM controls on front panel
• Global LFO 3 & 4
• Arpeggiator with key latch – 33 patterns
• Patch storage - up to 512 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)
• All knobs (excl. volume), sliders and most buttons transmit and receive MIDI cc commands for external control and mapping
• Microtuning with Scala table import and table tuning creation
• Manual mode
• Multi pot mode: Relative, Pot pick-up, Snap