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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
Pitch .............................................................13
Tone .............................................................13
Volume ...........................................................13
The Oscillators And Mixer ...........................................13
Sine Waves .......................................................13
Triangle Waves ....................................................13
Sawtooth Waves...................................................14
Square / Pulse Waves ..............................................14
Noise ............................................................14
Ring Modulation ...................................................14
The Filter .........................................................14
Envelopes And Amplifier ............................................15
Attack Time .......................................................16
Hold Time.........................................................16
Decay Time .......................................................16
Sustain Level ......................................................16
Release Time......................................................16
LFOs.............................................................16
Summary .........................................................16
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 1 and LFO 2 hardware controls..................................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
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 .......................................................34
APPENDIX ..................................................................37
System Updates using Novation Components................................37
Patch import via SysEx....................................................37
Sync values tables .......................................................37
Arp/Clock Sync Rate ...............................................37
Delay Sync Rate ...................................................37
LFO Sync Rate ....................................................38
List of Wavetables .......................................................38
Init Patch – parameter table ...............................................38
Modulation Matrix – sources...............................................40
Modulation Matrix – destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
FX Modulation Matrix – sources ............................................40
FX Modulation Matrix – destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
MIDI parameters list ......................................................40
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