Novation Peak

Finally, the last thing i love about the novation peak and, in my opinion, one of the more important aspects is that damn this thing looks good. It is...

If that's what you need, so that's it for this time. I hope you've enjoyed this review of Novation's peak overall great sense.

Tone wood is just such an important thing and I think Novation picked the right wood to make the peak sound good.

I hooked it up to my MIDI keyboard. (One of the things I really do love about the P6 is the integrated 49-key keybed.) Fired up the Peak, and started plinking keys and going through the presets. Within seconds I was *completely* in love with it.

**Novation Peak:**. It took me a while to warm up to the Peak - on paper it was amazing, but I hated the mod matrix and menu diving. I had to flip through several pages to find the setting I want, and it's extremely easy to accidentally change patch and lose any unsaved progress. It was only after adding other synths to my collection that I realized: I could completely ignore the mod matrix and most of the menus, and the Peak would still have a lot to offer.

Let's just say that while I used to think it was incredibly powerful, now that I understand much more I find myself frustrated by in actual fact the lack of features (a rudimentary EG section, limited LFO capabilities, not much in the way of a mod matrix, etc.) For bass and leads I turn to my monosynths which I have more hands-on knob-per-function control and thereby more fun... for poly stuff I've picked up a few others including the Matrix1000 and Novation Peak, both of which are very powerful with great mod matrixes. And more recently I've dipped my toes into the modular world. That said, I've run out of space on my rack and the Minilogue is collecting dust.

Blofeld is much deeper, it has an extra filter and more filter modes, it has multi mode, it’s a Waldorf, the wavetables have higher resolution and it plays samples. Alternatively there are the shruthi/shruthi xt (which just has more knobs) and the Ambika by mutable inst (diy kits) they are quite similar (shruthi being mono) ambika is like up to 6 voices and has individual outs and you can choose your own analog filter as long as there’s a pcb for it (there are well over 5 different ones). Idk about the modwave, but that seems promising when it comes to wavetable synths. There’s also the Novation peak btw (bass station 2 filter and wavetable oscillators, I really liked it except it’s kinda menu divey at times.