Come along to the Novation Summer Tour at Dawsons Manchester and Reading – be the first to try the Bass station II! It’s always a pleasure when suppliers visit our stores to run workshops, talk to customers or show off new products. The in-store teams often enjoy it as much as the customers do. This… Read More
The new Novation Supernova soundpack provides the sounds of a classic synth for your modern ‘Nova The Novation Supernova is, without doubt, one of the most revered of all Novation synths. This accolade, in itself, makes it worthy of any synthesizer hall of fame. The sound engine at the heart of the Supernova was recently… Read More
As a raft of new, affordable analogue synths arrive in 2013, we ask ‘what is analogue synthesis?’ There has been something of an analogue synthesis renaissance in 2013. Despite being barely 3 months into the year, we’ve already been treated to a tempting selection of high quality analogue instruments. Younger players, and those who are… Read More
We’re barely a quarter of the way into 2013, and the analogue synthesizer is making its presence felt once again… Once upon a time, the analogue synthesizer was simply ‘the synthesizer’. Analogue technology was the only means of generating synthesized sound. Then, in the 80s, digital synthesis arrived, and provided a far more stable and… Read More
£10k of Focusrite, KRK and Novation gear is up for grabs during spring! Spring is officially here (even if it might not seem like it’s actually here…), and to celebrate, Focusrite is offering the chance to win part of a £10k haul of studio gear from Focusrite, Novation and KRK. Yes, as Focusrite is also… Read More
The new Novation iPad apps are now available, ahead of the arrival of the Launchkey controller… The guys at Focusrite tell us that (fingers crossed) the Launchkey controllers should be arriving with us in April (hurrah!)- In the meantime, you can get your hands on the new Novation iPad apps designed to be used in… Read More
The Gotye live rig is even more packed full of Novation gear than we thought… Award winning Australian act, Gotye, has a well-known predilection for Novation gear. Notably, their live shows were built on a rig featuring five Launchpads. Now, however, it seems that Gotye bassist, Lucas Taranto has been packing even more Novation gear… Read More
A new range of Novation controller keyboards provide all the tools to control Ableton, DAWs and even iPad apps The guys at Focusrite have been very busy indeed, and now its sister company has joined the fray; an all-new range of Novation Controller keyboards has been revealed. The range, named the Launchkey range, encompasses three… Read More
Electronic Artist M4SONIC has become the latest Launchpad superstar, courtesy of YouTube… It seems that YouTube has pushed another Novation Launchpad-based electronic artist into the spotlight, this time in the form of 21-year old Australian producer, M4SONIC. You might remember that last year, Madeon was amassing an incomprehensibly big YouTube following via his 39-track mash-up,… Read More
Win a Novation Launchpad and Remote Zero SL MKII rig in our October competition There are very few music technology products that have had the impact of the Novation Launchpad in recent years. This innocuous looking grid of backlit buttons provides such an incredible range of control for Ableton, designed hand-in-hand with the software’s developers,… Read More
