Designed in collaboration with electronic music legend Richard D James aka Aphex Twin, AFX Station is a limited edition of Bass Station II. A sound designer’s dream, AFX Station has the same powerful feature set as Bass Station II, with the addition of AFX Mode pre-installed, which revolutionises the way the monosynth can be played and programmed.

AFX Mode is perfect for sequencing and arpeggiation, every key on the instrument can become a new patch, making it a powerful analogue drum machine, a flexible sound design tool, or a killer bass or lead module. With striking purple reveals and the famous ‘A’ insignia, it’s an instant collector’s item.

AFX Station ships with 128 new synth patches and seven new overlay banks from Noyze Lab, Perplex On, Richard Devine, r beny and Lightbath, which channel the creative vision of Aphex Twin and provides you with lots of sound design inspiration.

Envelopes can be set to a fixed length, so the decay stage is taken out of play, and the decay slider instead sets the duration of the sustain stage. The number of times the envelopes retrigger can be adjusted, to bring more control for drum synthesis.

The sub-oscillator follows the pitch of oscillator 1, and can be detuned using the coarse and fine controls, so the sub can be tuned to any non-octave-tracking interval you like, for subtle or dramatic creative effect.

Oscillator Glide Diverge allows the glide time of oscillator 2 to be slowed down relative to oscillator 1 by a variable amount, causing the two to diverge for interesting portamento effects, for adding thickness and character to basslines, pads and leads.

The frequency triggered by each key press can be completely controlled, giving scales another dimension.

The pitches of each of the two oscillators can be controlled separately in its single-voice architecture. Two notes can be played at a time rather than just one, and users can get interesting interactions through the Ring and Filter Mod.

Bass Station II was released in 2013, and has been a go-to monosynth for music and sound artists on stage and in the studio ever since. Bass Station II features two oscillators, a multimode filter, amp and filter modulation, step sequencing and an arpeggiator. It is loved for its simplicity, ease of control and — last but certainly not least — its immense sound.

Features

• Classic monosynth with Aphex Twin tweaks
• AFX Mode for powerful sound design
• New, Aphex Twin-approved look
• Limited edition giftbox
• 128 brand new artist patches
• Overlay Editor in Novation Components
• Fixed-duration Envelopes & Retrigger counts
• Extended Sub Oscillator controls
• Oscillator Glide Diverge
• Microtuning editing
• Paraphonic mode
• Two distinct analogue filters
• Load and save patches
• Pattern-based step sequencer and arpeggiator
• Dedicated tweakable controls
• Two oscillators plus an additional sub-oscillator
• Analogue effects section
• Analogue effects section with flexible modulation featuring two Envelopes and two LFOs
• MIDI I/O and USB connectivity
• Players "synth-action" keyboard with aftertouch

For more information, please visit the manufacturer's website.