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Bad Gear - Bass Station 3 ???
Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. In spite of Skynet-like plugins, Insta-worthy designs and workflows that give you the full Dark Souls experience the old-fashioned one-knob-per-function approach is still the pinnacle of synth UI for many musicians.
Today we are going to talk about Peak. This 2017 hybrid high end poly synth not only comes with a knob-laden interface for grown-ups, a not-so-secret sound design sauce and more menu diving than a Roland groovebox, it also delivers a roided-up version of that distinct Novation tone you either love or hate.
Thanks to Tom of Synth Anatomy for lending me another piece from his collection:
synthanatomy.com
youtube.com/@synthanatomy
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:57 Overview Novation Peak
01:45 Oxford Oscillators
02:12 FPGA Oscillator Workflow
03:15 LFOs, Envelopes
03:44 Analog Filter
04:02 Modulation Matrix, Animate
04:35 FX Section
04:51 Patches
05:33 What Else??? (Build Quality, Connectivity, Thanks)
05:47 Hate
06:13 Jam 1 ( Melodic Techno )
07:04 Jam 2 ( Drum'n'Bass )
07:52 Finale ( Synthwave )
08:23 Verdict
Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness
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Bad Gear - Bass Station 3 ???
Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. In spite of Skynet-like plugins, Insta-worthy designs and workflows that give you the full Dark Souls experience the old-fashioned one-knob-per-function approach is still the pinnacle of synth UI for many musicians.
Today we are going to talk about Peak. This 2017 hybrid high end poly synth not only comes with a knob-laden interface for grown-ups, a not-so-secret sound design sauce and more menu diving than a Roland groovebox, it also delivers a roided-up version of that distinct Novation tone you either love or hate.
Thanks to Tom of Synth Anatomy for lending me another piece from his collection:
synthanatomy.com
youtube.com/@synthanatomy
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:57 Overview Novation Peak
01:45 Oxford Oscillators
02:12 FPGA Oscillator Workflow
03:15 LFOs, Envelopes
03:44 Analog Filter
04:02 Modulation Matrix, Animate
04:35 FX Section
04:51 Patches
05:33 What Else??? (Build Quality, Connectivity, Thanks)
05:47 Hate
06:13 Jam 1 ( Melodic Techno )
07:04 Jam 2 ( Drum'n'Bass )
07:52 Finale ( Synthwave )
08:23 Verdict
