- Make Huge Sounds- Create deep, gritty bass, soaring leads, lush pads, and vintage sounds with up to 18 voices and powerful effects..
- Built By a Legend- MiniNova’s synth engine was conceived, shaped, and refined by British synth legend Chris Huggett and has his five decades of passion, experience, and expertise behind it..
- Gently Tweak or Instantly Warp- Subtly tweak your sounds with the knobs, or totally warp them with the Animate buttons, pitch and modulation wheels..
- Create Unique Vocals- Talk or sing into the mic and run your voice through the keyboard and effects engine. Use MiniNova’s secret weapon for the perfect vocal – VocalTune – to ensure that your voice will automatically be tuned to the notes you play on the keyboard..
- Animate and Arpeggiate- Switch to 'Animate' mode and press one of the eight backlit buttons to trigger awesome performance functions or 'Arpeggiator' mode to jam with arpeggiator rhythms in real time..
- Find Your Sound Fast- Instantly search through 256 sounds by type or musical genre and save 128 more sounds of your own..
Product Description
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MiniNova packs the sort of specs you'd expect to find in an
instrument twice the size, and sounds like one double the price.
Whether you're a music production novice taking your first steps
in synthesis, the keyboard player in a band looking for a sturdy,
road-worthy instrument, or an experienced sound designer after a
pro-quality portable addition to your existing arsenal,
Novation's backpack-sized beast more than delivers.
From the Manufacturer
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Compact, super-cool studio and live synth with 256 onboard
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MiniNova is a compact, super-cool studio and live synth with the
same sound engine as its big brother, UltraNova. It comes with
256 incredible onboard sounds that you can tweak with five knobs,
or totally warp with eight 'animate' buttons. It has up to 18
voices with as many as five synth effects on each sound. MiniNova
also has an onboard VocalTune effect as well as a classic vocoder
so you can recreate iconic vocal sounds from hip hop, urban and
electronic music.
But don't let its size fool you. MiniNova is the latest in the
'nova' range of synths dating back to the legendary Supernova
series. It has the same incredibly powerful sound engine and
synth effects as the Novation UltraNova, which means it is
capable of creating and editing massive bass synth sounds,
soaring leads, lush pads and vintage synth sounds. All this in a
37 mini-key form with a USB port and MIDI I/O that you can hook
up to your laptop and control your music software, or connect it
to another keyboard or sound module.
Editing Software Included
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Editing sounds in such a powerful synth can be overwhelming, so
Novation created a software application that gives you visual
access to the synth engine. The MiniNova Editor works as a
plug-in within your DAW or music software. You can fully edit
MiniNova using the hardware; the software just makes it easier to
see what you are doing.
Choose Your Sound--and Get More for Free
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MiniNova has 256 onboard sounds and space to save another 128 of
your own sounds. You can quickly search for sounds by selecting
the style of music you're making, or the type of sound you're
after--whether it's bass synth, lead, hip hop or techno. MiniNova
comes with free software, Patch Librarian, so you can store as
many sounds as you want on your computer. If 256 sounds are not
enough, there are numerous soundpacks for MiniNova assembled by
renowned artists and sound designers, including plenty of vintage
synth sounds.
The Synth Engine and Effects
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MiniNova has an enormously powerful sound engine and synth
effects, unheard of in a micro synth. There are 14 conventional
waveforms to choose from (square, sine, sawtooth, pulse, triangle
and combinations), 36 wavetables and 20 digital waveforms. Each
of the 3 oscillators (per voice) have density/detune for
tening up sounds, virtual sync and 'hardness'--which acts as
an additional lowpass filter. There are 14 filter types, 6
envelope generators, 3 LFOs and 20 modulation slots where you can
link modules of the synth engine together to shape sound.
MiniNova can add up to 5 effects to each sound including
distortion, reverb, chorus/phase, delay, compressor, EQ and
Novation's unique gator effect.
Brand New VocalTune and Classic Vocoder Effects
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MiniNova takes vocal effects one-step further. As well as a
vocoder, it has VocalTune. This means you can talk into the mic
and play the tune you want your voice to follow on the keyboard
recreating those classic hip hop/urban vocal effects. You can
also run your voice through MiniNova's effects engine, adding
reverb, distortion, chorus/phase, gator compression or EQ. This
doesn't need to be limited to your voice; there is an input into
which you can plug a guitar or any other instrument and give it
the same .
Instant Editing and Performance Control
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The 'Perform' section enables you to access the synth and effects
engines by sw between 6 positions to assign 4 knobs,
giving you instant access to 24 sound-bending parameters.
Live Synth: Tweak and Warp Your Sounds in Real Time
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8 animate buttons enable you to warp and twist sounds in real
time alongside a dedicated filter knob, 4 editing knobs and
oversized pitch and modulation wheels.
A great compact desktop keyboard for triggering software
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37-Key Controller Keyboard with MIDI I/O
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MiniNova is also a great compact desktop keyboard for triggering
software instruments. It has physical MIDI I/O ports for
triggering other external sound modules--or for connecting to a
larger keyboard.
About Novation
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Since Novation was born back in 1992, the company name has become
synonymous with world-class analogue modeling synthesizers and
unrivalled MIDI controller keyboards and solutions. The product
range continues to receive critical accl from the music press
and win numerous awards for outstanding technology and usability.
Fantastic build quality, true musical instrument feel, and
intuitive controls are just three of the reasons why Novation's
digital musical instruments are simply a joy to play. To keep
products up to date and in tune with the user's needs, Novation
continually provides improved operating systems and brand new
software available for download. Firmware updates are fueled and
inspired by suggestions from existing users, so comments about
Novation products are actively encouraged.