Novation • BassStation Rack
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.
1. Very cheap
2. acceptable Sound
3. CV-Gate to midi
Just run the beast through some compressor and external fx (delay, reverb and ....)