Hi I'm Chris from Future Music and we're here with Chris from Novation and he's going to
be showing us the Bass Station 2, so I'll hand you over to Chris.
>>Yeah thanks, yeah we're incredibly happy to announce our new first analogue synth for
some time. Based on the original bass station but we've brought this now right into the
21st Century. So it's a fully analogue synth with storage capabilities on there as well
also we can actually store and save our patches. We have effectively 2 oscilators, a sub oscilator
to get that really nice rich bass sound out of the synth as well. On the actual synth
itself we've got our oscilator control section here we can choose between sin, triangle,
saw tooth and square pull smith wave, we can switch between the different oscilators with
that switch here. We have course tuning and fine tuning for pitching in the oscilators
themselves, the little mixer section here so we can balance our 2 oscilators and the sub
oscilator and we also have a noise generator button for the synth as well and ring modulator
so we can actually choose to, either use the noise, ring modulation or we can actually bring
in an external signal and it can send that external signal through the filter section
and the effects section as well. The filter section is one of the really strong parts
of the bass station 2 and we have 2 seperate filter types built into the synth itself,
we have the classic bass station synth and we've also added a filter we've called acid
which is essentially modeled on the 303 diode filter. We have envelope control here as well
with the amp envelope and modulation envelope. 2 LFOS with a delay in speed control for both
of those and different wave forms as well including sample and hold as well which is a really
nice feature. On the arpeggiator section over here we have our standard arpeggiation function
so we've got up down, up and down and that sort of thing. We also have a play-in arpeggiator
that we can play in but our areggio we have a random arpeggio but I think one of the really
nice features on here, is we have the ability to record a small sequence and play that back
as well which really kind of lends a lot of power to the Bass Station 2. We can set up
a small sequence and get our hands on the actual physical tactile control. As I say
this is one of 2 bass stations in existance, we announced it 2/3 days ago now and we just
really happy that we've managed to get it over here and you know and have it to display
to people and actually get some nice sounds out of it as well.
So if we just get a nice patch up there >>So that real ressonance squelch, that's
that acid filter is it? >>Watch I think we're set to the classic one at the moment
here but we switch it to the acid one. >>Ah there you go.
>>You can here the different oscilators there, the sub oscilator there really gives it a
nice nice low end.
So yes, I mean we've got it here with you know we're working hard on getting it ready
for when we go live with it. >>Just routing, what about routing options?
What can you modulate, what can you centre, what can you assign the LFOS to do?
>>Ok we've got lots of different kind of options here, I mean from the point of view on the
top panel here, with the LFOS we can send LFO 2 to pull to it with for example or we could
have a modulation envelope to pull with. In terms of, we've got our filter of course over
here, so we can bring the filter in and then the, again we've got modulation evelope and
LFO too, LFO 1 we can use to actually control the oscilators as well. We've got additional
functionality on the keyboard, so obviously one of the key things about a nice analogue
synth like this, it's all hands on, grab hold of all the controls straight in front
of you but alongside that as well we've got a lot of additional functionality that we
can implement directly with the function in the keyboard. >>OK so here's the sequencary trigger things
that are going to be managed in this firmware. And what about round the back, does it use
USB midi, just normal midi? >>Right well on the back, if we just spin
around, we've got standard midi in and out there as well, we have got USB and it's actually
bus powered which is how we've powering it at the moment, obviously power supply there
cable lock as well for keeping it secure, we've got sustain and we've also go the external input socket.
>>And that's straight through the filter. >>So that filtering through the effects as
well >>And effects are they still yet to be implemented.
>>No on the effects side we've got effectively 2 effects built in we've got distortion and
we've also got oscilator filter modulation. >>Can we hear those?
>>Yeah again so you know we've got the distortion we've got he oscilator filter modulation as
well, best way to filter modulation is going to be in a little bit like a DFM kind of type of thing
but we'll run through the filter. >>So the original bass station, it had CV
outs, CV gates, is this on this? >>No we don't, we've gone with yes standard
audio out and midi as well of course and midi via USB amplifier 5 pin.
>>And do these top controls do they send midi CC can you use them to control your door synths
>>Ok, well that's a good question, I'm not entirely sure the answer to that one at the
moment, I need to check up on that one. As I say it's very very early days and it's the
first time that we've had it out so yes, so I mean that's one that we'll
>>We'll check back with that, but hopefully. >>Yeah hopefully so indeed.
>>Excellent and retail and when can we get hold of it?
>>Ok well I think we're probably going to be looking at mid June when they're going
to be hitting the stores and price wise it's going to be £399.