Novation MiniNova Synthesizer NOVSYNTH02UKEU

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I bought one of these back around 2014 or so and enjoyed it, it was one of my very many G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) purchases. Fast forward to 2017, I bought a motorcycle and sold off a bunch of my gear to help pay for the bike, the Mini Nova was a piece of gear I tearfully let go of. At the time I mostly just dabbled at synths so I was barely using the Mini Nova. Fast forward to now. After a lot of frustration at trying to sequence music with a DAW, I discovered the fun of sequencing synths in a "DAW-less" setup. I've dug out the few synths I kept, and bought two synthesizers from Modal Electronics. To avoid going on a further tangent, I sent both synths back, and realized I had enough refunded money to get another Mini Nova. I'm not selling this one. When I had my first Mini Nova, I was in awe at it's capabilities, and now that I've spent a lot more time tweaking different types of hardware and software synths, the Mini Nova continues to impress. I won't go into what the synth can do. Head to YouTube and watch some videos if you want a demo of what this little powerhouse can do. My main two reasons for scoring this synth so high are: 1. I find it's controls and workflow intuitive and 2. It sounds great. A lesser reason is this synth is fully polyphonic, and it's price tag puts it in competition with just a few other poly synths and a myriad of monophonic synths. To touch briefly on the Modal Electronics synths... One was a Skulpt. A great sounding synth that is cheaper and seemingly as featured packed as the Mini Nova, with a seemingly intuitive control layout, it frustrated me to no end. All it did was flash it's LEDs at me. I could almost never get the Skulpt's control app for tablet/smartphone to connect to the Skulpt. So all I had for feedback other than listening was blinking LEDs. If I did something wrong on the Skulpt, I had no way of telling what I did. When both the Skulpt and the other synth I had bought, a Craft Synth 2.0, kept crashing, I sent them back. Dealing with those made me appreciate the Mini Nova's controls so much more. The Mini Nova has a screen that shows you numerical values as you turn knobs! Such a simple feature, yet dealing with the ME synths has made me realize how I took it for granted. Furthermore, while some features of the synth, such as LFO's and patching, do require you to menu dive a bit, there's enough knobs to tweak the synth's sound, in both subtle and dramatic ways without needing to look at the screen. The toggle switch to the right of the synth dictates what the four small knobs do, and the text on them is clear enough that I don't have to look at the screen. But having the screen there is so wonderful. Moving on to sound, I'll compare this to one of my old synths, a first generation Korg Minilogue. Great sounding synth, even more hands-on than the Mini Nova. There's one nuance to the Minilogue's tone that makes me glad I've got the Mini Nova back in my arsenal, now that I'm playing synths so much more. Nearly all of the Minilogue's tones have a metallic edge in them. Sometimes that's preferable, so I'm not griping. But when it comes to dialing in a warm, smooth tone, the Mini Nova does so with ease, as well as edgy metallic tones or otherwise. Put simply in another way, until now, the Minilogue was my most tonally versatile synth. The Mini Nova trumps it easily in that department. Oh, and unlike so many other synths, the Mini Nova has an ENTIRE bank of BLANK presets!! I've used numerous digital synths that are fully loaded with presets. If you want to save a tone you dialed up from scratch, you need to delete a preset on said synths. Not so with the MIni Nova! I'm so glad that Novation realized tone tweakers like myself would want to dial in their own tones, while also enjoying some of the preset tones! I would recommend the Mini Nova to synth players of all experience levels. As an absolute beginner myself back when I bought my first Mini Nova, I was still comfortable enough with it to start creating my own tones from scratch on day one. While I've got a lot more experience in synth tweaking now, I still don't use the Mini Nova to it's fully capacity, so as long as one doesn't mind the digital nature of this synth, I'd even recommend this to an experienced synth player. I feel the Mini Nova is very unique with the features I've outlined: Very powerful and flexible, yet friendly and approachable to new synth players. Plus it's hardware feels rock solid. While I understand not many people like the mini keys, I don't mind them and they beat the touch pads found on other synths!

Wow! What an awesome synthesizer.. Unbeatable synth for this price range. Delivers crystal clear sounds with lots of live modulation controls. Very good bass voices, leads, pads, arpeggiators.. The good thing is, they have been releasing new sound patches then and then. So, whenever we need more presets, we can just download and install them.. If you are looking only for synth voices and you don't need piano or any realistic instruments, This is bang for the buck. Only thing is, the keys are small.. but its ok to play with these keys. It provides good look for the Instrument.

I treated myself to this prior to Xmas 2014. Although I've had keyboards and guitars for years and only dabbled as a hobby, by no means a competent player on anything, I;ve always longed to own my own synthesiser, as I'm a huge fan of electronic music (EBM) and always fancied myself as a bit of a Numanoid. I've had a few plays with this gadget and am well impressed with the sounds I can get out of it! I'm now looking into building a bit of a studio around this instrument and having a bit of an experiment with sound and recording. I think this little sound machine should fit into my plans nicely. Recommended, indeed!!

Great sound engine. It would be nice if it could record layers and be able to store them, though. It is what it said it is. I am using a multitrack recorder, and this works well. It will be great getting to know this machine, and I reccomend it. 4 out of 5 only because it came with the wrong power adaptor. Seven days later...update: The manufacturer (not amazon) sent me the replacement adaptor, no questions. One week of playing...this tool is awesome! Totally reccomend it! Five stars now.