Novation • BassStation Rack

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The Bass Station is an incredible little synth and was an instant success when released. It is a monophonic analog bass synthesizer and is basically the first new analog synth to hit the modern music market. It is great at recreating classic TB-303 lines and fat Moog tones. Every control from the original synths can be found on this: ADSR, VCF, VCA, oscillator sync modes, tuning, and LFO! And most of these can be MIDI controlled.

The BassStation has dual-VCO's which use analog Sound Modeling (ASM) to generate basic saw and pulse waveforms. They can each be tuned, mixed and synced together. The VCF filter is a switchable 12 or 24dB/oct with cutoff, resonance and envelope amount and assignable ADSR. The LFO has variable speed and delay with random, triangle or sawtooth shapes. The LFO can modulate the VCF filter and/or PWM.

Very useful features include the built in MIDI/CV converter which allows you to control the BassStation from an older analog synth or you can control analog synths with MIDI through the BassStation! All knob settings are MIDI transmit/receivable and there are 60 user patches for program storage. Another important feature is the analog input for filtering external sound sources! The Bass Station Keyboard was the original version but is more limited than this classic. It is used by William Ørbit, Biosphere, Massive Attack, Orbital, Apollo 440, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Jimi Tenor, Laurent Garnier, ATB, Sneaker Pimps, Out of Logic and Underworld.


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Jonathan
Posted 342 days ago
This is a real synth (DCOs), easy to program and has a great sound. Most importantly, forget the "Bass" name and use it for leads, fx, etc. Cheap (£100) so link multiple Bass Stations together for a mega poly synth. Run your old CV/Gate syths from it. Great!
cevasco
Posted 360 days ago
bellissimo, semplice, buoni preset, caldo...altro ottimo prodotto novation!
certamente il top nella sua fascia di prezzo...
Mads
Posted 387 days ago
DCO's rocks. Its the best kind osc you kind get. Analog sound with digital stability and control. I dont own a Bass Station. But the DCO's in my Juno 6 and Juno 106 are great!
delta_waves
Posted 387 days ago
The Bass Station doesn't use VCOs or analog modeling technology! The oscillators are digitally-controlled analog oscillators (DCO).
Johan
Posted 401 days ago
At first I was reluctant to get me one of these because of it lacking a sequencer. But since it is a true analog synth and I really don't have the money to spend on a real TB-303, I went for it anyway. Now I don't regret it at all! I hooked it up with my Korg Electribe EA-1 and it was spitting out fat 303 basslines in no time. With the Electribe working as a TB-like sequencer, the Novation is heavenly to work with!
 

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