Novation‘s V-Station & B-Station software synthesizers are now available as free downloads for Mac & Windows.
- The V-Station virtual analog synthesizer recreates the sound of Novation’s K-Station hardware synth. The plugin features Novation’s Liquid Analog synthesis engine and includes 200 factory presets, including bass, leads, pads, pianos, and more.
- B-Station emulates the DCO oscillators and analog signal path of the classic Novation Bass Station synthesizer. Modeled to recreate the sounds of the hardware original, the plugin can be used for deep bass sounds and leads alike. It comes with 100 presets.
Pricing and Availability
V-Station & B-Station are available now as free downloads from Novation’s Legacy software page.
Interesting license agreement:
“You must permit the Licensor and his representatives, at all reasonable times and on reasonable advance notice, to inspect and have access to any premises, and to the computer equipment located there, at which the Software or the Documentation is being kept or used, and any records kept pursuant to this Licence, for the purpose of ensuring that you are complying with the terms of this Licence.”
Along the same lines, their Component software records your every keystroke and mouse movement.
I’m preparing a law suit over this. This is completely illegal.
I wonder, were they that scummy before the focusrite’s takeover or only after?
Woah. That’s very very bad. Possible to read the license before installing? I tried downloading it but it’s all stuffed into a single package file.
wow lol
No, thanks.
I got V station running like a champ, but B station and Live 11 don’t seem to like each other.
Is it free with no strings attached? Or do you have to go through hoops and sign up for this or that to get it for “free?”
Note that the Mac versions stop at OS 10.15, so its DOA for M1 users. Too bad, but its a nice offer all the same.
I was able to get V-Station and B-Station running just fine on my M1 Mac Mini.
Absolutely great plugs… both run in x64 without a wrapper and with barely a hint of CPU usage.
oh now this is something
And still sounds better than hydrasynth
Awesome! Already downloaded, played with, and enjoyed late last night. And as mentioned, heck yeah, to my ears it DOES sound better than a Hydrasynth (which I own and still like quite a bit). Now I won’t have to dig out my Novation KS4 quite as much when I need some “liquidy pads” in a piece. Hats off to Novation for making this available for free…
I was clearing some stuff out of my studio and finally parted ways with my A-Station. I was reluctant to do it, and shed a tear when I boxed it up to ship to its new owner. Two months later and I have a softsynth replacement. I feel better now.
Had a K-Station back in 2004…the little VA that could!
I still have a K-S! It’s super tweakable and absolutely invincible! So many onboard knobs…
I strongly suggest people very carefully read their highly intrusive, unscrupulous “Privacy” Policy
At the website ‘themarkup dot org’ forward slash ‘blacklight’ it says:
We found this website capturing user keystrokes.
They go on to say:
Key logging is when a website captures the text that you type into a webpage before you hit the submit button. This technique has been used to identify anonymous web users by matching them to postal addresses and real names. This technique was used by four percent of popular websites when we scanned them in September 2020.
On the site you are inspecting, information entered in the email field was logged.
Blacklight detected a script belonging to the company HubSpot, Inc. doing this on this site.
However…
There are other reasons for key logging, such as providing autocomplete functionality. Blacklight cannot determine the intent behind the inspected website’s use of this technique.