Novation Unveils New ULTRANOVA Keyboard
October 28, 2010 in Gear, Music, Photos, Video
The cool new ULTRANOVA synth has its roots in Chris Huggett's SuperNova II
Novation debuted a cool new keyboard today at Sweetwater called the UltraNova. Created by Chris Huggett, famed OSCar inventor, it features a built-in mic for the very hip Vocoder function as well as true conductive-rubber pots for accurate and instant programming. Three intense oscillators that can multiply themselves and stack them on top of each other for thickness and, of course, a K2BShow favorite, wackiness! Matt Darbyshire, Product Specialist for Novation, showed it off in the Sweetwater Morning Meeting and trained the Sweetwater sales engineers on the vast and powerful features of this new 37-note wonder. The factory sounds are thick and rich and of course, tons of knobs to tweak away, including a “Tweak Mode” button that lets one control any parameter from an extra bank of 8 soft-knobs. See a video about that here. Also, the patch selector is an iTunes-style browser that makes it easy to pick any of the over 300 factory sounds AND it comes with a free patch editor/librarian software too!
Check out more about it here, but please don’t hurt yourself, this baby packs a punch! :)
Here’s a video of Matt doing a short performance on the new ULTRANOVA!
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