NOVATION A station synth sell or swap for Bass or drum station £175 Wirral

[funkgod]

Hi All,

looking to sell or swap my synth for either a bass station or drum station. rack version only please.

its great synth for not alot of money, totally underrated with loads of options for a 1U rack unit, perfect working order and sounds amazing, i have two of these,

but only need one so one can go. some info here.

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/novation-a-station

 

British synth makers Novation take their now classic Bass Station Rack to the next level. The A-Station is polyphonic, adding 8 voices of polyphony to their 1-unit rack-mount synth. Unlike the original Bass Station and Super Bass Station which were real analog synths, the A-Station gets its voice architecture from the SuperNova synths, which use analog sound modeling. The A-Station has the layout and shape of the famous Bass Stations, but its guts are basically a slimmed down SuperNova.

It has 25 knobs for real-time control, and all knobs transmit MIDI controller messages. The A-Station has three oscillators which provide sawtooth, triangle, sine and pulse width modulation. There's even a simple FM synth engine which can be dialed in for sharpening the sound. Oscillators may be set to Unison or Sync'd operation and a Noise source is also included in the waveform engine. There is a nice lowpass resonant filter with switchable 12 or 24dB/oct slopes and ADSR controls. A second ADSR envelope is available for the oscillators, as well as two LFOs with sample-and-hold and MIDI sync.

 

On-board effects include reverb and delay. Their send levels can be controlled by the Mod wheel which is a nice effect. A 12-band vocoder is also on-board for processing external mono sounds such as drum loops or vocals. The A-Station's pads sound great when vocoded with external sounds. External sounds can also be used as an oscillator, run through the filters, envelopes, etc. with much better results than were possible on the original Bass Station. There's even a built-in Arpeggiator whose speed synchronization and sweep range can be stored with the program for instant recall. Unfortunately, some of the older Bass Station's problems still have not been addressed in the A-Station. Namely, the lack of a power switch, a puny 2-digit LCD screen, and it's still not multitimbral. But for clean analog sounding synth bass, punchy leads, pads, filter sweeps and more - the A-Station is certainly a great piece of kit to have around! For a cool compact keyboard version check out the K-Station.

BrandNovation

ModelA-Station

DeviceSynth

TypeRack

Engine TypeDigital

EngineVA

Voices (max)8

Multitimbral1

Oscillators3

LFO2 LFOs: triangle, saw, square, sample-and-hold; with panning, speed and delay parameters

NoiseY

Engine Detailed3 osc with Square / Saw / Variable Pulse / Tri / Sine / Double Saw / Double Tri / Double Sine waveforms. Osc 1-2 sync, FM, noise, external audio in (mono)

Filter (VCF)12dB / 24dB switchable resonant low-pass filter with programmable output EQ

Envelope (VCA)2 ADSR envelope generators plus FM attack/decay

FXdistortion, stereo chorus/flanger/phaser, stereo panning, delay and reverb, 12-band vocoder

Memory400 in 4 banks, (200 factory sounds)

Arpeggiatorup, down, up/down, up to 4 octaves, latchable

Keys0

Key typeN/A

VelocityN/A

AftertouchN/A

MidiI-O-T

Produced:2001 - 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 21, 2023 by funkgod