- NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME MOD
- NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME UPDATE
- NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME UPGRADE
- NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME PLUS
- NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME SERIES
There had to be some kind of compromise for these filters, and I think Novation made the right choice.
NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME UPGRADE
Of course, you can't see a destination button for it, because these special filters have only just become available with this upgrade instead, you use the resonance modulation destination instead.
NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME MOD
The Width parameter is calibrated in preset intervals, but if you wish, you can modulate it freely in the Filter Mod section.
Carefully adjusting the Cutoff and Width knobs can create vocal‑like formant textures or an impressive array of sharp, nasal sweeps.
The notch filter behaves as you'd expect, and the remaining dual filters work in parallel, the Width parameter again providing an offset of cutoff frequencies. They sound very similar to the original filters, until you play with the Width or crank up the resonance (at which point there's an increased 'fizz' - welcome but not too radical).
NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME SERIES
The first three in the list, the so‑called 'Hyper‑resonant' filters, work as two filters in series with a separate Width parameter, so that each filter block can be set to different frequencies.
NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME PLUS
While these don't include every combination you might think of (I'd have liked a low‑ plus high‑pass pairing), they provide enough scope. Having a new sound source is great, but to further enrich your sound palette, no less than nine new filter types have crept under that Special button in the filter section: resonant low‑pass, resonant high‑pass, resonant band‑pass, notch, low‑pass plus low‑pass, band‑pass plus band‑pass, high‑pass plus high‑pass, low‑pass plus low‑pass, and band‑pass plus high‑pass. You'll probably never need to reach for the new Unison settings (where between two and eight voices can be assigned to each note)‑‑ although you can if you want to! Pushing the Width button in the Oscillator Modulation section allows you to use the knobs to set the difference in phase and tuning of the 'two' virtual sawtooth waves, or even detune them using an LFO for some lush string textures. The Doublesaw waveform cleverly simulates two detunable sawtooth waves, and if you set all three oscillators to use it, the super‑thick result does indeed sound like six. Remember those 'Special' buttons that seemed less than thrilling in the past? They now allow access to several important new features - the most significant of which are a new 'Doublesaw' waveform and nine extra filter types. I found plenty of other surprises in store, too. Consider for a moment how cool this is - it's something that could never happen with a genuine analogue synthesizer without some major (and expensive) surgery, and yet, almost two years after we first reviewed the Nova, four more voices have materialised out of thin air (well, a thin MIDI updater file, anyway). so the news that the OS upgrade boosts the Nova's polyphony to 16 notes will be most welcome. To make better use of this, Nova owners must have been yearning for more than the synth's original 12‑note polyphony. In other words, in multitimbral Performance mode, each synth Part retains the effects it has been assigned in Program (single‑sound) mode. Novation have set the standard for multitimbrality in the virtual analogue synth world - not by offering more parts than any other manufacturer, but by offering truly multitimbral effects. The desktop design of the Nova and its external power supply resulted in a very slim, chic‑looking module which nevertheless concealed an impressive multitimbral synth engine. The Novation Nova was initially regarded as a slimmed‑down version of the virtual analogue Supernova, although it did have two audio inputs to process signals through its filters and effects, and not even the top‑of‑the‑range Supernova had those at the time, although the recent upgraded Supernova II has done away with that advantage.
NOVATION MUSIC PRODUCT TIMELIME UPDATE
This update is free, it's installed via a standard MIDI file and any existing Nova owners who haven't heard about it should grab it from Novation's web site right away. Fortunately, the Nova's sturdy construction and first‑class packaging saved the day - no thanks to the couriers.Īs the Nova was reviewed comprehensively in SOS September 1999, I've focused my attention in this review on the features added in the new operating system update, which takes it to version 4.0. The thud turned out to be the sound that a boxed Novation Nova makes as it is dropped over a six‑foot gate and onto my garden path. It's not often that a review starts with a thud, but then it's not often that a courier delivers at 6:45 on a Saturday morning either. Paul Nagle investigates Novation's newly enhanced Nova module. In these days of flash‑upgradeable operating systems, it's easy to forget that a free OS tweak can give your synth completely new features.
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