It’s great for pads, unsurprisingly. Switch the filter to 12db and it softens right up. The two big pluses for pad work on the Peak are 1) the amount of modulation available (you can create very long evolving soundscapes, especially using very slow LFO modulation of the waveshapes) and 2) the effects - the reverb and chorus are both quality. One of the best built-in synth reverbs I’ve heard.
Same caveat applies though - the filter does have a distinct character and you should make sure you like it.
I find a lot of demos of the Peak focus on heavily distorted or overdriven stuff, or the wavetables, which is really only a subset of what it does. There are a few different examples though, eg:
Waaaaaat. Damn. Can’t be as oversampled as the factory ones are, right? So we’re potentially getting a more gritty aliased wavetable sound to add to the Peak palette? Big if true.
V1.2.2 is available since 2 days in components, it adds 10 user waves it seems (and maybe more things), but there is no info on this firmware right now, so don’t even know how to send wavetable, but seems obvious to me that it will using components.
One of the best things about Novation is that they seem to organize their software/firmware very well. For example, I am super confident that Peak will continue to be refined as they build out support for Summit, instead of treating Peak and Summit as completely unrelated products.
I would still love an Overbridge-like experience for Peak/Summit, but that would just be icing on the cake.
Oh totally. Summit is just two Peaks in a box with a few things from the menu gaining panel controls, and a cool filter routing option since there’s two, so developing for the Summit is developing for the Peak!
