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Page 2: Important Safety
Disclaimer Novation has taken all possible steps to ensure that the information given here is both For USA correct and complete. In no event can Novation accept any liability or responsibility for... -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
IMPORTANT SAFETY SIMPLIFIED BASS STATION II BLOCK DIAGRAM ....... 12 INSTRUCTIONS . -
Page 4: Introduction
Power Requirements • Pitch and Mod wheels Bass Station II is shipped with a 9 V DC, 500 mA power supply. The centre pin of the • 25-note velocity-sensitive keyboard with aftertouch coaxial connector is the positive (+ve) side of the supply. Bass Station II can either be •... -
Page 5: Hardware Overview
20 Sync 1-2 – this LED illuminates when the Osc 1/Osc 2 Sync function is enabled (an On-Key Function) 5 Function/Exit – hold this down to use any of Bass Station II’s On-Key Functions. A wide range of “system set-up” parameters can be set in this mode. - Page 6 Phones volume is adjusted by the VOLUME control [10]. 4 4 MIDI IN and OUT – standard 5-pin DIN MIDI sockets for connecting Bass Station II to 9 9 Kensington Security Slot – to secure your synth.
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Page 7: Getting Started
The LED display will briefl y indicate that the patch is being saved. You can abort the Save procedure at the “LED fl ashing” stage by pressing the Function/ Exit button 5 . The Save procedure will cancel and Bass Station II will return to the patch Master Keyboard Sound Modules being edited. -
Page 8: Transpose
Wave B as in Wave A. (Wave B is actually an To reduce the number of controls on Bass Station II (and hence make the synth smaller and octave higher in pitch than Wave A). It is the number of vibrations in a given period that neater!), a number of configuration and setup options have been assigned to the keyboard determines the pitch of a sound. -
Page 9: The Oscillators And Mixer
Additional synthesizer sections - LFOs and Envelopes - provide further ways of altering Bass Station II lets you adjust the duty cycle of the basic square waveform to produce a the pitch, tone and volume of a sound by interacting with the Oscillators, Filter and waveform which is more ‘rectangular’... -
Page 10: The Filter
Frequency section subtracts some of the harmonics in a controlled manner. Volume 7 types of Filter are available on Bass Station II; they are all variations of the three basic Cut-off Frequency filter types: Low Pass, Band Pass and High Pass. The type of Filter most commonly used Volume on synthesizers is Low Pass. -
Page 11: Attack Time
(or modulate) remains at full volume while the key is held down, but once the key is released, the volume other sections of the synthesizer. In Bass Station II, for example, the LFOs can be used to TIME KEY "ON"... -
Page 12: Bass Station Ii In Detail
(less than ±12), as these are generally more useful for musical purposes. Bass Station II’s Oscillator section consists of two identical primary oscillators, plus a You will find the following parameter settings generate musically useful “sub-octave”... -
Page 13: Pulse Width
The two Oscillators and the sub oscillator have dedicated, fixed level controls, Oscillator Sync is a technique of using one oscillator (Osc 1 on Bass Station II) to add Osc 1 26 , Osc 2 27 and Sub 28 . The other three sources – the Noise source, Ring additional harmonics to the waveform produced another (Osc 2), by making the waveform Modulator output and external input - “share”... -
Page 14: Frequency
The Envelopes Section TIME Frequency Cutoff Cutoff Bass Station II generates two envelopes each time a key is pressed, which can be used Frequency Frequency to modify the synth sound in various ways. The envelope controls are based on the familiar Volume... -
Page 15: Portamento
Bass Station II block diagram on page 12). duration of the glide is set by the Glide Time control. Mod Env – the modulation envelope - is routed to various other sections of Bass Station II, The Effects Section where it can be used to alter other synth parameters over the duration of the note. -
Page 16: Lfo Waveforms
These On-Key functions (available for each LFO independently) relate to the Delay/Speed switch 23 in the LFO section of the Bass Station II. When Delay/Speed is set to Speed, it is possible to extend its function by using the Speed/Sync On-Key function. Setting the On-key function Speed/Sync LFO 1 (via the lower A key) to SPd (Speed) allows the speed of LFO 1 to be controlled by the rotary control 25 . -
Page 17: Arp Swing
Note that some functions are “switch” type – i.e., On/Off, while others are “analogue” and Bass Station II includes a 32 note step sequencer, the controls for which are included in have a typical parameter value range from -63 to +63. When the desired value or state has the Arpeggiator section. - Page 18 Range: 0 to 127 Range: On or Off Because Bass Station II can generate a very wide dynamic range – particularly if the filter Setting Keysync LFO 2 to On re-starts LFO 2 at the start of the waveform every time a key section is adjusted close to self-oscillation –...
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Page 19: Appendix
This modifies the rhythm of the current arp pattern. See page 17 for a full description. The On-Key Dump function lets you save any or all of your Bass Station II Patches to a computer by transmitting the data in the form of MIDI SysEx messages. This would not be... -
Page 20: Init Patch - Parameter Table
Init Patch – parameter table Osc Filter Mod 0 (left) This list gives the values of all synth parameters in the Init Patch (the factory Patch initially loaded into Patch memories 64 to 127): Arpeggiator Latch Section Parameter Initial Value Rhythm Master patch volume... -
Page 21: Midi Parameters List
MIDI parameters list LFOs LFO 1 speed 18:50 0 to 255 Section Parameter CC / NRPN Control No. Range LFO 1 delay off, 1 to 127 Master LFO 2 speed 19:51 0 to 255 patch volume 0 to 127 LFO 2 delay off, 1 to 127 patch inc prog change...
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