User Manual

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CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL NOTICES............................................2
INTRODUCTION..............................................................4
Key Features .............................................................4
About This Manual ........................................................4
What’s in the box .........................................................4
Registering your Novation Peak .............................................4
Power Requirements ......................................................4
HARDWARE OVERVIEW ......................................................5
Top Panel ................................................................5
Controls, section by section ..........................................5
Rear Panel ...............................................................8
GETTING STARTED...........................................................9
Menu Navigation .........................................................11
Loading Patches .........................................................11
Saving Patches ..........................................................11
Basic Operation – sound modification ......................................12
The OLED display................................................. 12
Parameter adjustment ............................................. 12
The Filter knob.................................................... 12
Pitch and Mod wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Arpeggiator .................................................. 12
MIDI control...................................................... 12
The Animate Buttons .............................................. 12
SYNTHESIS TUTORIAL.......................................................13
PEAK: SIMPLIFIED BLOCK DIAGRAM .........................................17
PEAK IN DETAIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Oscillator Section ....................................................17
Wave............................................................ 17
Pitch ............................................................ 18
Pitch Modulation.................................................. 18
Shape ........................................................... 18
The Oscillator Menu............................................... 18
The LFO Section.........................................................20
LFO Waveform ................................................... 20
LFO Rate ........................................................20
LFO Fade Time ...................................................20
The LFO Menu ................................................... 20
The Mixer Section ........................................................22
The Envelopes Section ...................................................22
The Envelopes Menu ..............................................23
The Filter Section ........................................................24
Filter type ........................................................ 24
Frequency ....................................................... 24
Resonance....................................................... 24
Filter modulation .................................................. 24
Filter tracking..................................................... 25
Overdrive ........................................................ 25
The Modulation Matrix ....................................................26
Glide ...................................................................27
Voices..................................................................27
The Arpeggiator .........................................................29
Arp data transmission .............................................29
The Arp/Clock Menu ..............................................29
The Effects Section ......................................................31
Distortion ........................................................ 31
Chorus .......................................................... 31
Delay............................................................ 31
Reverb .......................................................... 31
The FX Menu ..................................................... 31
The Settings Menu .......................................................33
APPENDIX ..................................................................36
System Updates using Novation Components................................36
Patch import via SysEx....................................................36
Sync values tables .......................................................36
Arp/Clock Sync Rate ..............................................36
Delay Sync Rate ..................................................36
LFO Sync Rate ................................................... 36
Init Patch – parameter table ...............................................37
Modulation Matrix – sources...............................................38
Modulation Matrix – destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
MIDI parameters list ......................................................38