Does someone know if it is possible to identify fixed aftertouch units by serials ?
Thx a lot.
Alright enough of us here have one of these now that we should be getting some traffic in the thread, letās start swapping patches, I mean, COME ON. Itās the right thing do do. You know who you are, donāt make me @ you!
Why on earth doesnāt this synth get more love? It sounds bloody amazing. Mate of mine just got one, itās absolutely gorgeous.
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I really liked my Peak, but circuitghosted it. Iād be on the Summit in a second, though, if it had MPE.
I have to stop myself from raving about the Peak for fear of sounding like a paid shill. Itās a great synthesizer IMO, its sound and its workflow suit me very well.
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Damn those circuits and the ghosts within them.
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At risk of this I think the Summit is the best synth Iāve ever used. Not because of its sound, but itās just the best synthesizer Iāve used so far. A chameleon capable of almost anything, a blank surface to draw upon.
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Haha this is what Iām talking about. Mine came last night and I got it all set up, totally gorgeous. About to turn it on and go nuts!
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Paid shill alert!
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If Iām a paid shill theyāre severely misallocating funds, with my 60 subscribers and all.
I think because the vast majority prefers the Peak, most people utilizing its sound seem to sequence it, or demo it with a tiny 2.5 octave keyboard, lol.
Summit is a beast - just wish it had a more fleshed out mod matrix including the sustain parameter, plus tempo synced envelope looping and panned oscillators
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Novation tends to add feature requests if theyāre physically possible. Iām curious about what theyāre releasing in collab with Aphexā¦ I have no GAS but it might be hard to resist if itās cheap.
Yeah I have it side by side with my Peak just so I can keep looking at the differences, and the additional panel controls are so nice to have! The sliders are waaay longer than the Peak too! I also really like the very chunky black keys, totally different from the Digitone Keys.
What would the MPE be used for? I know it can receive poly-at no problem but Iām not sure what else MPE would be used for, not very familiar with MPE.
I think theyāre basically the same thing. Poly-AT just refers to separate after touch on each voiceās/keyās channel. MPE includes poly-AT but often has some extra dimensions, like side to side, or forwards and backwards motionā¦
I also think they meant that they wished the Summit had a poly-AT keyboard built into it, which in 2020 seems to be a lot to ask for. Hydrasynth only managed to do it because their parent company produces keyboards.
@Hawk Thatās it, thatās the difference.
A poly-AT keyboard would be an enhancement, sure, but my full-MPE implemented LinnStrument is my main controller, at least until the Osmose drops. And for microtunings, a regular keyboard is a non-starter, so Iām planning a double-LinnStrument config for that.
If you have a controller with extra dimensions, such as the Seaboard, you can map the X and Y axis (up and down the key, and left and right between keys) to different per-note modulation. The X axis is most commonly used for pitch bend, but can be reassigned (personally not a fan of pitch bend usually).
To be honest, for me as a not-very-good keyboard player, poly AT is the most important one as it is the easiest to control while playing. Thinking about the X and Y position of your fingers relative to the key too can be a bit much, but the feeling of e.g. swelling a note by moving your finger up the key on a Seaboard is really cool.
On a technical level, poly AT is a regular MIDI message, but which has an extra byte, which contains the note number that the aftertouch relates to. This means poly AT for multiple notes can be sent on a single channel. MPE makes use of one MIDI channel per note (essentially each note gets allocated a different channel), to allow a full range of expression for up to 16 notes at a time while still being backwards compatible with the MIDI spec. One reason they didnāt implement it in the same way as poly AT is that all the available MIDI status bytes are in use.
Get a Hydra KB to go with it. You then have the PAT you want. And you have Warm and Metallicā¦good contrast 
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Yeah as @Not_DIV1N says they are quite responsive to feature requests. There has been some discussion here recently on what would be good to have added to the mod matrix, I need to take the time to submit a request.
Itās a simple one but Iād love if it had a chord mode - literally just a chord memory where you hold a chord, press a button and then playing one note transposes the chord. Though Iām sure it wouldnāt be too difficult to add scales / modes.
Iād also like some more control over the attack and release of the animate function rather than them just being on/off.
I guess I still donāt understand, I know what poly-at is, but are you saying you want the summit to respond in a certain way when using an external controller? Canāt you just assign whichever control messages you like for expressive play on your controller, like a slide up opens the filter or whatever, and since it already supports poly-at, good to go?