MNovation MiniNova Mini Performance Synthesizer

MiniNova is a compact, super-cool studio and live synthesizer 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.

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 dirty-fat 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 so you can hook it up to your laptop and control your music software or connect it to another  keyboard or sound module.

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 fattening up sounds, virtual sync and ‘hardness’ – which acts as an additional  lowpass filter. There are 14 filter types (and you can run 2 simultaneously), 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.

NOVATION MiniNova Features:

• 37 note keyboard with velocity
• Up to 18 note polyphony (dynamic voicing)
• Mono-Timbral
• 3x oscillators, 1x noise generator, 2x ring modulators
• Waveforms include: Square, sine, tri, sawtooth, pulse, 9x saw:pulse combinations
• 20x digital waveforms
• 36x wavetables
• 5 effects slots per patch
• VocalTune
• 12 band vocoder
• Arpeggiator – 33 patterns
• Realtime Arp rhythm editing function
• Chord function – lock up to 10 notes
• Patch storage – up to 384 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)
• Display: 16 character custom LCD
• MIDI in/out
• 12 volt power input, USB/DC/off power switch (MiniNova can be powered via USB)
• Dimensions (LxHxD): 560 x 75 x 250 mm.