Yeah, I sympathise. I don’t know why but the vast majority of youtube demos of the Peak are pretty poor. A lot of them just run through the presets, which are really not good.
The best ones are the Sonic Lab review and Mylar Melodies’ video on it.
But I also liked this patch which convinced me that it could do subtle and rich, and not just “distorted”:
That’s a nice pad there! Ultra ambient. I hate when reviewers just go through presets, doesn’t give a good idea of what the gear is really capable of. Novation is solid with continually updating their firmware to add more features. The Bass Station II just got an update with some much requested features and that thing is like 5 years old!
Yea I need real, musical demos to be sold, that’s why I’m convinced I’ll never purchase an Octatrack. I’ve yet to find a song/set I love mainly created on it. The possibilities are endless but I haven’t heard any. Kind of the same with the Peak so far. Analog Four I’ve heard some things I love, and I presume even if it’s the MKI it’ll be similar to the MKII which I’ve heard has a sound improvement compared side by side.
Yup totally. The Mylar Melodies one is probably the most creative/musical. Just him jamming out and getting to some nice places. Give that one a watch when you have half an hour.
Don’t know if you’d find it redundant but to me it sounds like you may want another Digitone. One could use it as 8 voice poly with the voice allocation if I’m not mistaken.
I love my Novation Peak. Novation’s own presets don’t really show it off, but checkout Star Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmVdSCV6fNU and Geosynths https://www.geosynths.com/novation-peak. The Peak sounds beautiful & is a great hands on box, the effects are amazing, especially the reverb, probably the best sounding ‘built in’ reverb that I have heard. It’s not multitimbral, but that is not an issue for me as I just wanted a great sounding & versatile polysynth.
Great sounds from that. I think the Peak has great potential to be my background synth. My Sub Phatty jusy sounds soooo… phat on leads and bass but I have nothing but FM for pads now which isn’t suitable for everything. Peak fits the bill at around $1,100 currently so I think I’m going to order it tonight.
If I got the Digitakt to resample certain things for Christmas… I’ll be putting out an album by next Christmas lol.
Behringer Deep mind 12 could be another solid choice for a poly synth. My recommendation stands, Access Virus KB or KC. Or just get a desktop model. They’re grrrrrreat for pads! Lush…