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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 Summit...........................................4
Power Requirements ......................................................4
HARDWARE OVERVIEW ......................................................5
Top Panel ................................................................5
Controls, section by section ................................................5
Rear Panel ...............................................................9
GETTING STARTED..........................................................10
Menu Navigation .........................................................12
Bi-timbral synthesis ......................................................12
Loading Patches .........................................................12
Comparing Patches ................................................13
Quick Initialisation .................................................13
Saving Patches ....................................................13
Basic Operation – sound modification ......................................14
The OLED display..................................................14
Parameter adjustment ..............................................14
The Filter knob.....................................................14
Keyboard controls..................................................14
The Arpeggiator ...................................................15
MIDI control.......................................................15
The Animate Buttons ...............................................15
SYNTHESIS TUTORIAL.......................................................16
SUMMIT: SIMPLIFIED BLOCK DIAGRAM.......................................21
SUMMIT IN DETAIL ..........................................................22
Voices..................................................................22
Glide .............................................................22
The Voice Menu ...................................................22
The Oscillator Section ....................................................25
Oscillator Waveform................................................25
Oscillator Pitch ....................................................25
Pitch Modulation...................................................25
Waveform Shape ..................................................25
The Oscillator Menu................................................25
The Mixer Section ........................................................27
The Filter Section ........................................................27
Filter type and slope................................................27
Resonance........................................................28
Filter modulation ...................................................28
Filter tracking......................................................29
Overdrive .........................................................29
The Envelopes Section ...................................................29
The Envelopes Menu ...............................................30
The LFO Section.........................................................30
LFO 1 and LFO 2 hardware controls..................................30
LFO 1 & 2 Waveform ...............................................31
LFO 1 & 2 Rate ....................................................31
LFO 1 & 2 Fade Time ...............................................31
LFO 3 and LFO 4 hardware controls..................................31
LFO 3 & 4 Select ..................................................31
LFO 3 & 4 Waveform ...............................................31
LFO 3 & 4 Rate ....................................................31
LFO 3 & 4 Sync....................................................31
The LFO Menu ....................................................31
The Arpeggiator .........................................................33
Tempo............................................................33
Arp Mode .........................................................33
Arp Rhythm .......................................................33
Octave range......................................................33
Note duration......................................................33
Key Latch .........................................................33
Arp data transmission ..............................................33
The Arp/Clock Menu ...............................................33
The Effects Section ......................................................35
Distortion .........................................................35
Chorus ...........................................................35
Delay.............................................................35
Reverb ...........................................................35
The FX Menu ......................................................35
The Modulation Matrix ....................................................38
The FX Modulation Matrix .................................................39
The Settings Menu .......................................................40
APPENDIX ..................................................................45
System Updates using Novation Components................................45
Patch import via SysEx....................................................45
Sync values tables .......................................................45
Arp/Clock Sync Rate ...............................................45
Delay Sync Rate ...................................................45
LFO Sync Rate ....................................................45
List of Wavetables .......................................................45
MIDI operation in Single and Multi Patch modes..............................46
Modulation Matrix – sources...............................................46
Modulation Matrix – destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Modulation Matrix – destinations continued..................................46
FX Modulation Matrix – sources ............................................46
FX Modulation Matrix – destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
MIDI parameters list ......................................................47
Sound designers.........................................................49
List of factory Patches with designer credits ...........................50
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