Description
Whether you're a music production novice taking your first steps in synthesis, a keyboard player in a touring band, or an experienced sound designer, our backpack-sized beast more than delivers.
Built on the UltraNova sound engine, MiniNova has more polyphony, more filter types, more effects and more modulation than any other synthesiser in its class. It even has a built-in vocoder. And with USB bus power, you can easily hook it up to your computer and bring it wherever your music takes you.
Key Features
- Make huge sounds — Create dirty-fat bass, soaring leads, lush pads and vintage sounds with up to 18 voices and powerful effects
- Intuitive control — tweak your patches with the knobs, or totally warp them with the Animate buttons
- Create unique vocals — talk or sing into the included microphone and run your voice through the synth and its effects engine
- Find your sound fast — Instantly search through 256 preset sounds by type or musical genre, plus save 128 more of your own.
- Layer effects — each voice can be processed with up to five effects, including distortion, reverb, chorus, phase, delay, compressor, and EQ
Find your sound fast
MiniNova comes with 256 killer sounds, space to save another 128 of your own, and a Patch Librarian for loading and storing as many extra sounds on your computer as you'll ever need.
That's a lot of choice, but you can easily search through them by selecting your style or music, or the type of sound you're after. Bass? Lead? Techno? Hip Hop? Whatever you're looking for, you'll find your sound fast. Don't worry if you're lacking inspiration: we're always releasing new free soundpacks for MiniNova, which we create with renowned artists and sound designers.
Create unique vocals with MiniNova's Vocoder
MiniNova's Vocoder comes with a secret weapon: VocalTune. Talk or sing into the mic, and your voice will automatically be tuned to the notes you play on the keyboard.
Or, to do something totally unique with your voice, run it through the effects engine. Add reverb, distortion, chorus/phaser, gator compression or EQ - whatever you need to create attention-grabbing vocals, or recreate iconic vocal lines.
Don't limit yourself to vocals either: Plug in your instrument or any audio source to do really cool stuff with MiniNova's VocalTune, vocoder, filters and effects.
Animate and arpeggiate
Switch to 'Animate' mode and press one of the eight backlit buttons to trigger awesome performance functions.
Switch to 'Arpeggiator' mode to jam with arpeggiator rhythms in realtime, using the buttons to edit the arpeggiator step sequencer so you can switch steps in and out.
Overview
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12-band Vocoder with dynamic gooseneck microphone
Utility, display and patch select controls
16 character custom LCD
1x large detented patch select encoder
1x patch sort switch
1x volume dial
1x detented data encoder
5x navigation/utility buttons
2x patch navigation buttons
Keyboard/performance controls
Pitch wheel (LED lit)
Modulation wheel (LED lit)
37 note keyboard with velocity
4x smooth edit/performance pots
1x large smooth filter pot
1x six position parameter selector switch
6x parameter indicator LEDs
8x three-colour, back-lit animate/arpeggiator/favourite patch-select buttons
2x animate/arpeggiate LED indicators
1x back-lit 'hold' button
1x animate/arpeggiator/favourite patch toggle switch
1x 'favourite' patch select button
1x arpeggiator tempo control pot
1x arpeggiator tempo indicator LED
2x back-lit arpeggiator control encoders
2x back-lit octave select buttons
XLR dynamic mic input
1x ¼” jack inputs
2x ¼” jack outputs
1x ¼” jack headphone output
Sustain pedal on ¼” jack input
MIDI in/out
12 volt power input
USB/DC/off power switch
USB B 2.0 (MiniNova can be powered via USB)
Kensington security slot
Dimensions
- Length560mm
- Depth250mm
- Height75mm
Power requirements
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USB bus powered
9V DC power supply included
Maximum power consumption 9V DC 300mA
