Novation Mininova Portable Synthesizer And Vocoder

Based on the same sound engine as it’s older brother, the UltraNova, the Novation MiniNova is a compact and powerful hardware synthesizer that remains affordable enough for every level of producer or musician.

Amazing MiniNova Adventures

The MiniNova’s 256 onboard sounds give you more than enough ammo to add layers to your studio production or add more depth to your live performance sound – with 5 easily tweakable knobs to control volume and filter envelopes, shape and dynamics and an ergonomic control interface for newcomers to get to grips with. 8 ‘animate’ buttons also add quick and easy adjustments to the built-in patches or when crafting your own custom synths on the fly – The Mininova features everything from gritty bass, soaring lead synths and epic pads with 18 voices per genre and 5 synth effects per sound. A built-in VocalTune effect utilises a classic vocoder-type sound for creative vocal effects, and you can also run your voice through MiniNova’s effects engine, adding reverb, distortion, chorus/phase, gator compression or EQ. This doesn’t need to be limited to your voice; there is an input into which you can plug a guitar or any other instrument and give it the same treatment; effects or vocoder.

Full Audio I/O and MIDI connectivity ensures you can easily hook it up to your existing studio gear, instruments and Laptop/Computer system and integrate it without any hassle or additional equipment.

Novation MiniNova Features:

• UltraNova Sound Engine
• VocalTune Vocoder
• Tweak and Warp Sounds Live
• 256 Onboard Sounds
• Layer Your Effects
• Editing Software and Patch Librarian
• Vintage Synth and Bass
• Trigger Software Instruments
• 3 Year Warranty

Included Software

The Novation MiniNova comes with some great software too so you have more than enough to get up and running.

Thanks to all this great software, you’ll be making great music straight out of the box:

• Access to the Sound Collective
• 4GB of Loopmaster samples
• Free Melodics lesson
• Novation Automap
• Stand-alone patch librarian

Three-year Warranty On All Novation Hardware

Novation are excited to announce an extension to the standard limited warranty, which comes with all new products.

Previously, customers enjoyed a two-year warranty. Now — effective on purchases from 1st January 2018 onwards — the warranty period is 36 months from the date of the original purchase.

(The warranty period for product purchased on or prior to the 31st December 2017 remains at 24 months from the date of the original purchase.)

Novation Mininova Portable Synthesizer and Vocoder Specs:

Utility, display and patch select controls

• 16 character custom LCD
• 1x large detented patch select encoder
• 1x patch sort switch
• 1x volume dial
• 1x detented data encoder
• 5x navigation/utility buttons
• 2x patch navigation buttons

Keyboard/performance controls

• Pitch wheel (LED lit)
• Modulation wheel (LED lit)
• 37 note keyboard with velocity
• 4x smooth edit/performance pots
• 1x large smooth filter pot
• 1x six position parameter selector switch
• 6x parameter indicator LEDs
• 8x three-colour, back-lit animate/arpeggiator/favourite patch-select buttons
• 2x animate/arpeggiate LED indicators
• 1x back-lit ‘hold’ button
• 1x animate/arpeggiator/favourite patch toggle switch
• 1x ‘favourite’ patch select button
• 1x arpeggiator tempo control pot
• 1x arpeggiator tempo indicator LED
• 2x back-lit arpeggiator control encoders
• 2x back-lit octave select buttons

Inputs, Outputs, rear panel

• XLR dynamic mic input
• 1x ¼” jack inputs
• 2x ¼” jack outputs
• 1x ¼” jack headphone output
• Sustain pedal on ¼” jack input
• MIDI in/out
• 12 volt power input
• USB/DC/off power switch
• USB port (MiniNova can be powered via USB)
• Kensington security slot

Synth Engine

• Up to 18 note polyphony (dynamic voicing)
• Mono-Timbral

Per patch

• 3x oscillators
• 1x noise generator
• 2x ring modulators

Waveforms include:

• Square, sine, tri, sawtooth, pulse, 9x saw:pulse combinations
• 20x digital waveforms
• 36x wavetables

Filter types

• 2x filters per patch
• low pass no resonance 6dB per octave
• low pass 12dB
• low pass 18dB
• low pass 24dB
• band pass 6:6
• band pass 6:12
• band pass 12:6
• band pass 6:18
• band pass 18:6
• band pass 12:12
• high pass no resonance 6dB per octave
• high pass 12dB
• high pass 18dB
• high pass 24dB

Modulation sources

• 20 modulation slots per patch
• 6x envelope generators
• 3x LFOs
• Aftertouch (Supported in the engine. Note, keyboard does not generate aftertouch)
• Velocity
• Key scaling/track
• Mod wheel
• Expression pedal

Total of 66 Destinations including

• Oscillator pitch, pulse width, wavetable index, level and sync
• Filter cutoff, resonance, envelope settings
• Effects parameters and send levels
• Recursive modulation (modulating modulation sources themselves)

5 effects slots per patch

• Distortion – up to 2 instances
• Compressor – up to 2 instances
• Chorus/Phase – up to 4 instances
• Delay – up to 2 instances
• Reverb – up to 2 instances
• Gator
• EQ

Misc

• VocalTune
• 12 band vocoder
• Arpeggiator – 33 patterns
• Realtime Arp rhythm editing function
• Chord function – lock up to 10 notes
• Patch storage – up to 384 on hardware (ships with 256 factory patches)