Description
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The
Novation UltraNova keyboard is an analogue-modelling synthesizer designed for everyone: from first-time synth purchasers to keyboard addicts.
Novation UltraNova keyboard is the next generation of Novation's
iconic synth family, which brought you the legendary SuperNova and
SuperNova II. It has a 37-note Fatar keybed, illuminated pitch and
modulation wheels, eight assignable touch-sensitive rotary encoders, a
144-character LCD, and a large knob for fine control of parameters.
Under the hood, UltraNova's arpeggiator, vocoder and USB audio interface
make it incredibly useful for today's music makers, and bus powering
lets you put it at the centre of your stage or studio rig.
UltraNova's single-part synth engine can employ wavetables alongside
conventional subtractive synthesis. It has three oscillators with
density and detune controls, two ring modulators, a noise source, two
filters, six envelopes, three LFOs, five assignable effects slots, and
much more. On-board effects include distortion, chorus/phaser, delay,
reverb, and gator plus compression and EQ. Its intuitive top-panel
layout helps to make tweaking UltraNova's parameters simple, with
dedicated buttons providing quick and easy navigation. What's more, a
free plug-in editor provides easy access to the synth's controls and
patches (300 factory-loaded, 200 user), from within your music software.
UltraNova's secret weapon is its Touch feature, a unique system that
brings a new level of performance control to synth players. Hit the
Touch button and the eight encoders become receptive to finger contact.
These touches can control modulators and envelopes within the synth
engine, so dramatic modulations can be performed with the touch of a
finger. With the corresponding Tweak feature — which allows you to group
your favourite parameters to the rotary controls for on-the-fly patch
manipulation — and a large knob for extra-fine tweaking, you literally
have total control of the synth at your fingertips.
Specifications
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Synth engine
- Up to 18 note polyphony (dynamic voicing)
- Mono-Timbral
Per patch:
- 3x oscillators
- 1x noise generator
- 2x ring modulators
Waveforms include:
- Square, sine, tri, sawtooth, pulse, 9x saw:pulse combinations.
- 20x digital waveforms
- 36x wavetables
Filter types:
- 2x filters per patch
- low pass no resonance 6dB per octave
- low pass 12dB
- low pass 18dB
- low pass 24dB
- band pass 6:6
- band pass 6:12
- band pass 12:6
- band pass 6:18
- band pass 18:6
- band pass 12:12
- high pass no resonance 6dB per octave
- high pass 12dB
- high pass 18dB
- high pass 24dB
Sources:
- 20 modulation slots per patch
- 6x envelope generators
- 3x LFOs.
- Aftertouch
- Velocity
- Key scaling/track
- Mod wheel
- Expression pedal
Total of 66 Destinations including:
- Oscillator pitch, pulse width, wavetable index, level and sync
- Filter cutoff, resonance, envelope settings
- Effects parameters and send levels
- Recursive modulation (modulating modulation sources themselves)
5 Effects slots per patch
- Distortion – up to 2 instances
- Compressor – up to 2 instances
- Chorus/Phase – up to 4 instances
- Delay – up to 2 instances
- Reverb – up to 2 instances
- Gator
- EQ
- 12 band vocoder
- Arpeggiator – 33 patterns
- Chord function – lock up to 10 notes
- Patch storage up to 512 on hardware (ships with 300 factory patches)
USB audio interface
- 2 in, 4 out soundcard
- 44.1 / 48kHz at 16 or 24 bit to host
- 44.1 / 48kHz at 16 bit from host (if you select 24 bit from host, audio
- data is limited by the driver to 16 bit playback)
- Dynamic range : - 98dB
- Input 1 + 2 frequency response : 20Hz to 20kHz +/- 1dB
- Gain rage : -10 to + 65dB
- THD+N = 0.002%
- Maximum output level +6dBu
- signal to noise ratio referenced to 0dBFS (+6 dBu) = 96dB
- Noise EIN = 117dB
- Input 1 - balanced XLR & balanced TRS 1/4"jack
- Input 2 - balanced TRS 1/4" jack only
Hardware
- 144 character LCD
- 8x detented touch sensitive encoders
- 1x large smooth encoder (with back-lit filter lock buttons)
- 1x large patch select/speed dial encoder
- 2x volume & monitor mix dials
- 39 LED lit/indicated buttons
- Pitch wheel (LED lit)
- Modulation wheel (LED lit)
- 37 note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch
- XLR dynamic mic input
- 2x ¼” jack inputs
- 2x ¼” jack outputs
- 2x ¼” jack aux outputs
- 1x ¼” jack headphone output
- SPDIF digital output on RCA connector
- Expression pedal on ¼” jack input
- Sustain pedal on ¼” jack input
- MIDI in/out/thru
- 12 volt power input
- USB port (UltraNova can be powered via USB)
- Kensington Lock port
Dimensions
H = 152mm (5.98”)W = 374mm (14.72”)L = 725mm (28.54”)
Weight
3.6kg (7.93lb)