Novation Bass Station Keyboard
Country: UK
Weight: 2 Kg
Dimensions: 465 (w) x 215 (h) x 55 (d) mm |
trend price : 200€ |
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Novation Bass Station
Analog Bass Synth (1993)
An early neo-analog portable synthesizer from the nineties, this project was originally aimed to a squealchy Roland Tb-303 emulation.
The famous engineer Chris Huggett (EDP WASP and Osc Oscar) worked on the Bass Station developpement.
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KEYBOARD 25 velocity full-size C-C keys (transmits polyphonic Midi) transposable over 8 octaves. The main panel features 19 knobs, 13 switch-tabs and 2 buttons - on the left side 2 wheels for modulation and pitchbender.
Back panel terminal connectors:
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mono analog output
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Midi interface (no thru)
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input for optional ECG-1 grip - never been released on the market
Power supply is an external PSU 9V DC or 6 X AA 1.5V batteries.
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VOICE analog monophonic machine with subtractive synthesis.
A voice is composed by 2 quite identical detunable DCO oscillators (C2-C7 16' 8' 4' 2' sawtooth or pulse with variable width) with volume mix balancing.
PERFORMANCE special functions:
- keyboard
can be shifted to 3 octaves range
- adjustable portamento glide + autoglide legato for a Tb303 "twang" effect
- single / multi triggering: restarts the EG1 or free flown mode
- wheel variable pitch or cutoff modulation depth
- tuning function A-440Hz
portamento |
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LFO a main delayed modulator (shapes: saw, triangle and random) and 3 destinations
LFO WAVES
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- VCF cutoff
- DCO1 pitch
- DCO2 pitch
A second slimmed-down LFO manages the DCO1/DCO2 pulse width with fixed rate. |
ENVELOPE 2 identical 4-segments EGs:
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- EG1 amplitude (hardwired)
- EG2 AUX can be assigned to filter cutoff or pulse width
EG ADSR
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FILTER resonant lowpass filter at 2 / 4 poles slope originally based on EDP WASP vintage synthesizer from 5 Hz to 10 kHz.
MIDI all knobs send Midi CC# - check table below.
Even if synthesis is monophonic, the keyboard polyphonically transmits Midi messages
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Filter Resonance |
112 |
Autoglide On/Off |
106 |
Filter Mod. Depth |
113 |
Env.2 Attack |
107 |
Env.1 Attack |
114 |
Env.2 Decay |
108 |
Env.1 Decay |
115 |
Env.2 Sustain |
109 |
Env.1 Sustain |
116 |
Env.2 Release |
110 |
Env.1 Release |
117 |
Env.2 Velocity |
111 |
Env.1 Velocity |
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MEMORY:
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- 7 RAM patches
The "manual" slot is the sound actually on the knobs positions.
Sounds can be saved only by Midi sysex. |
RELATED FAMILY:
VST PLUGIN / SAMPLED VERSION there are some free and commercial samples set:
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DEMO:
have some bass station
demo? upload!
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