Novation Summit Polyphonic Synthesizer

Specifications:

Overview

• 50 control knobs

• 8 45mm sliders

• 1 volume knob

• 1 data encoder knob

• Rubberized 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

• Width998.5mm
• Depth92mm
• Height303.5mm

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 attacks, 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

• Analog 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 envelopes 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 the 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