This official Novation video features Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll, in his studio, sharing his thoughts on their new Bass Station II.
For more info on the new synth, see our coverage of the introduction of the Novation Bass Station II.
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This official Novation video features Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll, in his studio, sharing his thoughts on their new Bass Station II.
For more info on the new synth, see our coverage of the introduction of the Novation Bass Station II.
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So much kit , so much terrible music
so many comments, so many trolls
What you’re hearing are pieces of ideas. Listen to his work with Orbital. “In Sides” was amazing as well as “Middle of Nowhere”. Not to mention he paved the way when it comes to trance ‘groups’ creating an actual album. I put them right up there with Aphex Twin as far as importance to the scene. Go check out the track “Times Fly (slow)” One of my favorite slower tempo tracks from them from 1996 – incredible.
there’s always one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKOIHrnk80
tbh, i think orbital would sound like orbital whatever they use. it’s funny that on in sides the most expensive kit at the time was probably the apple and the sampler!
Awesome to see him talk. I’ve been a fan for too many years. Big respects.
Times Fly (slow) !
IMHO Orbital has always had that indefinable “something” that sets their music apart. I don’t hear anyone else that compares to them.
Memorable melodies and more traditional song structure – two things often missing from techno.
Orbital is a “pop” techno band, and he’s awesome.
I have a Bass Station II and it has a vast sound pallet capable of warm bass and leads, pseudo pads and discordant sounds. I highly recommend this synth.
I want to like this keyboard as it’s a decent price for what it can do, I just haven’t heard any examples that grab my interest, quite a few that put me right off though.
It can do nearly anything!
Deep sub bass (subosc set to sine)
Traditional mono synth sounds
Clean, rubbery bass (single saw on classic filter)
Zappy envelopes
Sample and hold sounds
Hard sync leads (set o/c pitch to mod wheel & go nuts)
Full on filter self-oscillation (with smooth cutoff knob tweaks)
12 and 24db filter options on 3 types (6 filter responses plus the Acid filter = 7 filter styles!)
Wildly detuned dissonance
OR Subtly detuned waves drifting up and down the phase ladder
OR really cold and stable oscillator pitches
a pair of really slow multi wave LFOs than can get cranked into the audio range or beat-division synced
303-style (use sequencer with ties and glide, acid filter, post filter distortion)
Tuned Intervals for house lines (4ths, 5th, 7ths, etc.)
Weird noise and sync effects
FM strangeness
Slew, keysync, other
Highpass and Bandpass sounds with high resonance
A built in limiter
Dedicated OSC filter mod (FM from oscillator 1)
Filter external audio (ext in will mono invert-sum stereo input for fun effects)
Huge oscillator range, from slow clicks into ear-shattering.
Dubwubby LFO action
Slow attacks and releases
Pulse-width modulated squares
Flexible arp and four 32-note sequences
Portable, USB, lightweight
Velocity and Aftertouch
Lots of lights
Patch storage
No menus
In short, classic synths like the SH-101 and Moog Prodigy are jealous. Not sure there are any other analog mono synths that can cover this much synthesis for $500. If you have not hear “your sound” coming out of it, it’s because you have not programmed your patch on it yet.
Big respect for Orbital. That studio is amazing.
I’m not even an Orbital fan but that’s a good ad.
It’s a good synth just not super fluid to program, a bit like a JP-8080 in that respect
It does have presets and user presets though 🙂