Well, I own the UltraNova, but this machine is SO far beyond my skill sets that I won't live long enough to ever need one . . . thanks Mike, you're amazing!
FINALLY!! someone with proper pedagogical technique at a keyboard instrument! Right on man :) wonderful ideas and use of the technique as well. I will subscribe due to this show of artistry. Beautiful instrument! Thank you for your presentation! JZ
@@Angelowalker. I gave my life to Jesus 40 years ago. Nothing better in life than to know The Creator of the universe, and my soul! God bless, my friend!
Big sound in a sleek silhouette! The form factor is intriguing, the flatness is very attractive to me. The sound would take too long to describe accurately, I just really like it. It feels approachable and flexible.
Sounds like a really versatile synth! That last patch had that d-50 late 80s vibe I’m looking for, In addition to so many different vibes. Also, Mike has crazy chops
The intro reminds me of a succession of interdimensional witches, about to cast time compression and obliterate mankind. Then it goes into a funky synth patch after that and everything is cool again. Thank you for the journey. ..
Tbf it’s the best playing demo I’ve seen for ANY product. Generally synth demos are either simple white keys only jams, or tasteless shred. Mike plays according to what the patch tells him to do, and it’s awesome.
Amazing performance! It really give much out of the synth! This is exactly the kind of demo that makes me want to buy the instrument while just enjoying listening to it.
The Summit is spectacular. I liked it from the start but didnt gel with it immediately. But over the last couple of months, its becoming my favorite of many synths. It's so easy to get great sounds out of it.
The passage starting at 2:47 hella reminds me of disasterpeace’s hyper light drifter but with added color and narrative. Beautiful playing and voicing. Glad I was able to find your performance
The Novation Peak Innovations Summit have the best on-board Reverb for a synthesizer that I've ever heard no other since I've used since telling my Peak has a Reverb that is half as good
The last jam of the video with the "80's Digi-Syn" preset is simply amazing... that's the kind of cheesiness I like. I wish I could learn from you Pensini
I love the Novation Summit! I made an antire song mostly with sounds from Summit and Peak. I also like to chage the settings along the track evolving...
Waw... just .. waw ! Great playing. The Summit has very delicate keys, it's not easy to play THAT clean on the instrument. Very beautiful pieces that are played. Music heaven ...
@@MikePensini You're welcome. Should you read this, have you got any artist or teacher you can recommend for learning the tools of the trade of playing or creating 80s music ? I'm interested in the structure of the composing.. Grts.
I just bought a used one from an online store because there are no new ones left anywhere... hope it's not screwed up in any way. This is an incredible sounding synth.
They are still being sold new from Navation so not sure why you couldn't find one however nothing wrong with used, I just bought a used Peak from cash converters £800.
What a huge difference it makes hearing a synth demoed in capable musical context vs. yet another yawner saying here’s a saw wave and diddling the filter knob.Thanks for this.
Love that game, level and track! Perhaps that was a subconscious influence haha! I just put together a new track featuring the summit if you'd like to check it out, G Soubi - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Sold my Peak. Ordered a Summit. Need to wait 4 weeks....aaaargggh. Summit is (alongside the UDO6) clearly a top synth and a good investment. The only critics I have is : Why no digital output ?? (since I want to use Summit a soundsource for my V-synth XT)
Holy smokes I was convinced, that with enough work and effort, I could get a Hydrosynth to sound like a true analog poly synth, I haven’t bought a Hydrasynth yet, but am close. I put on my headphones and listen to the summit and kudos on your PLAYING on the summit, I just immediately thought: THERE IS THE SOUND! Crap… So now I’m depressed. When you get a sec, could you play those notes, just the way you played them, but on the Hydrosynth? Oh…I SEE you do have a Hydrosynth video! Coolio. I’m jumping ahead, but in SONIC PROWESS, I’ll bet YOU THINK Summit wins. Amazing job, Buddy!❤ What a Grand A/B this will be for me!
By the way mate, if you'd like to check out the latest track I put together with the Summit, you can check it out here - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Newly bought this monster machine! I can´t find the presets that´s been demonstrated hin this vid, not at least at the same memory locations on my Summit? Are they to be find on a webpage for downloading? - love the sounds and the way Mike Pensini brilliantly demonstrates them!
A lady I met long ago, would really appreciate your playing, she passed away sorta recently, but she would see your playing and say .....finally....Someone that still uses appropriate pedagogy while playing in the modern instrument. Her name was Dorothy Taubman. ....Maybe you've heard her? She definitely saved my hands. We can "lose" how to play the keyboard instrument, which is not an easy instrument to play properly. Especially when we tour or we are under pressure. Or we play naturally and a teacher we respect tells us to play another way. It is really the duty of a teacher to teach correct coordinate bio mechanical technique to a student ,so they don't hurt themselves. And plus, then they understand what they're doing, And they can forget about it and they never fall for any voodoo bullshit that someone passes on of the proper way to approach playing a keyboard, namely a piano to start. When you don't have to worry about technique, the music can really flow 💥 Thank you Mike and I will check out your TH-cam channel Jason
@@pdautg Thank you pdautg! Yep, that's all one can do! Hope you're staying safe too! I just put a new demo up of the Summit if you want to check it out: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
@@MikePensini The sound you play at 2:50 sounds a bit like the pad at the beginning of Mezzoforte's Garden Party! This synth is so incredibly versatile!
I've listen many many demos on this synth on TH-cam. Seems like the vast majority of the patches are just big phat paddish/ambient/atmospheric/brashish type of sounds. If you just focus on the Analog waveforms (saw/sine/square/triangle), is this synth capable of creating famous Prophet/OB/Moog patches? What about oscillator sync patches...The Cars "Let's Go" sync patch? Rush's "Tom Sawyer"? Styx's "Angry Young Man"? ELP "Lucky Man"? Genesis's "ABACAB" etc. etc.... I've yet to hear anyone playing lead-solos on this synth.
Mike i dont know why you dont review more gear. Few people can offer the same level of playing and sound design. You and Matt Johnson are really in a class of your own. People should be tossing you money to review their gear. My Summit is arriving a few days.
It would be a difficult decision to make between this marvellous analogue wonder & the equally powerful but Different Arturia Polybrute? Their both around the same price band, both brilliant poly synths, with different features, mmm I don't know which to go for.......🤔
I agree. At least he demos in a synth style. The horrible cheese saw, he leans into. The sound pad he plays jazz voicings. I don't care about a chops demo but at least it's not plinking around or running to a sequencer or an arp. What does this instrument do when you breathe into it? Ya know?
Chris Dillon I hear that. I’m more into moody piano and EP sounds, ethereal and clamorous type of tones than the saw wave stuff. I guess that would be sine and square wave stuff. Lol. I think the Summit sounds really beautiful, this guys touch and taste in music really sales the machine.
il Novation Summit sarebbe la versione tastiera del Novation Peak? Sono uguali? Ho letto però su vari forum che Peak ha non pochi problemi e che, abbia un soffio di fondo antipatico.
This may be one of the best synth demos I have ever heard.
If you like ambient music.
The best one being this: th-cam.com/video/PXvQs4Nq06c/w-d-xo.html
But yes, this is a lovely demo.
it makes the world of diference when the one demoing can actualy play!!
Haha, cheers!
Agreed !!!
Yeah this man plays with soul for sure!
@FreedomAndForgiven interesting!! Have you play around with the diverge and drift functions? Im realy curious about that
Mike is great
That brass comping was INSANE.
You're making me want to buy this one, Mike, and I don't have room for more keys... Damn you, Mike!
A fabulous sounding synth, great playing!
Outstanding performance, I really enjoyed it so much, wonderful synth and really impressive playing. Thank you!
One of the best Summit videos on TH-cam. Definitely helps my decision on getting one. Mike Pensini's playing style is inspiring to say the least.
Thank you!
Well, I own the UltraNova, but this machine is SO far beyond my skill sets that I won't live long enough to ever need one . . . thanks Mike, you're amazing!
Finally a musical instrument demonstrated by an actual musician :)
Ha true.
Excellent improvisation, especially C-minor on the Xylophone and A+B with arpeggio and synth wave. Inevitably, this synthesiser sounds glorifying 🎼🎹🎵🎶
Feels like the perfekt mix between rompler wavetables and the dynamics/filters of analog power. Amazing patches and vivid, punchy sound.
Absolutely Jens, it's the best of both worlds! Here's the latest demo I put together featuring the Summit - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
FINALLY!!
someone with proper pedagogical technique at a keyboard instrument!
Right on man :)
wonderful ideas and use of the technique as well. I will subscribe due to this show of artistry.
Beautiful instrument!
Thank you for your presentation!
JZ
Wonderful playing! I've been back and forth about adding this to my arsenal, and I really feel like you do this board some nice justice! Thank you!
Really versatile demo, thank you. I had my hands on a Summit in February and haven't gotten over it since so now I'm getting one.
Exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks so much for your demo! Great work.
This is the best demo, Emotional pads is what I love.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mike, you are incredible. And the Summit looks great as well. Thanks for the amazing presentation.
Thank you Frank!
Such a great combination of the Summit and this amazing player.
I'm not even a keyboardist, and I want one. I'm not dead yet, so I guess it's time to start learning! I am SO getting this. Great demo sir! Thanks!
Yes, Go for it.
Turn to repent repent let him save your soul turn from sin and to Jesus please he loves you so much turn to him God bless you all❤️🙏🏾
@@Angelowalker. I gave my life to Jesus 40 years ago. Nothing better in life than to know The Creator of the universe, and my soul! God bless, my friend!
@@NegdoshaManido God bless you brother we are in the end times the rapture is near be ready cause we are about to go home to meet Jesus!❤️😇
You can get an external hardare sequencer with it and never touch on any keys in your life :)
Just got mine... Loving every minute !!
Fantastic and fantastic playing
Big sound in a sleek silhouette! The form factor is intriguing, the flatness is very attractive to me. The sound would take too long to describe accurately, I just really like it. It feels approachable and flexible.
It's a great looking synth!
I got the Peak.
Incredible demo, best 1 so far!! I just ordered mine, it was back ordered, waiting patiently lol
Just like me... 4 weeks...
@@sK3LeTvM1 I feel your pain, still waiting on mine, to show up!!
Cheers Tony!
Sounds like a really versatile synth! That last patch had that d-50 late 80s vibe I’m looking for, In addition to so many different vibes. Also, Mike has crazy chops
Thanks Little Fields! I just put together a new track featuring the Summit if you'd like to check it out - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
The intro reminds me of a succession of interdimensional witches, about to cast time compression and obliterate mankind.
Then it goes into a funky synth patch after that and everything is cool again.
Thank you for the journey.
..
Plaid, Ochre, Ulrich Schnauss... I hear all of them and more in this synth. The pad at 7:55 is phenomenal.
Right? It's perfect. I just uploaded a new demo to th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html as well
@@MikePensini it's like it's own psyfy film :)
Perfect playing with perfect patches on a quite perfect synth, kinda dreamy sound thanks for this really nice demo.
That is a serious badass synth. Top shelf playing! Best playing demo I’ve seen for this product.
Cheers Rick!
Tbf it’s the best playing demo I’ve seen for ANY product.
Generally synth demos are either simple white keys only jams, or tasteless shred. Mike plays according to what the patch tells him to do, and it’s awesome.
Oh that opening FFVII riff. ❤️
Yea like....had me sold right off the rip with that
buys instantly... s**t
Stunning sound, fantastic playing.
The most beautiful demo of a synth I have seen so far
Cheers Simón!
Really ? Did you saw this?
m.th-cam.com/video/MGgM0R_Tpxc/w-d-xo.html
Thomas Körber that is not a live demo with only ONE synth and ONE human player ! That’s what I was talking about. Not the “demo”scene :)
@@simonprecheurllarena Thanks Simon! Here's the latest track if you'd like to hear more Summit - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Amazing performance! It really give much out of the synth! This is exactly the kind of demo that makes me want to buy the instrument while just enjoying listening to it.
I got the Peak.
Great demo, great skills, voicings!
good lord, the last patch!! beautiful fm sound!!
There’s no way this keyboard can get a thumbs down!!
More like, there's no way Mike Pensini can get a thumbs down.
Simón Prêcheur Llarena - right on, Simon! Mike has some of the very best demos due to bringing legit chops to the party. Thank you, Mike!
@DIV1NITAL Novation ganggang
DIV1NITAL novation + elektron = perfection
DIV1NITAL judging by your channel you definitely know what you’re talking about. I’ll give them a look!
The Summit is spectacular. I liked it from the start but didnt gel with it immediately. But over the last couple of months, its becoming my favorite of many synths. It's so easy to get great sounds out of it.
Is it analogue? I am wondering what the hardware offers over a VST.
@@tupaj123yes Analog filters and VCA.
Oscillators are digital, so you get the best of both worlds really.
gorgeous chops + great synth
this is making me want 1 of these even more! good job
thanks for the demo, we need more musicians testing out synths
Thanks Mike , very beautiful music.
This shows natural talent and that you actually love playing music.😀
Thank you Michael!
The passage starting at 2:47 hella reminds me of disasterpeace’s hyper light drifter but with added color and narrative. Beautiful playing and voicing. Glad I was able to find your performance
Thank you Joe!
@@MikePensini thank you mike!
The Novation Peak Innovations Summit have the best on-board Reverb for a synthesizer that I've ever heard no other since I've used since telling my Peak has a Reverb that is half as good
They have the same Reverb.
The last jam of the video with the "80's Digi-Syn" preset is simply amazing... that's the kind of cheesiness I like.
I wish I could learn from you Pensini
I love the Novation Summit! I made an antire song mostly with sounds from Summit and Peak. I also like to chage the settings along the track evolving...
Luscious progressions. Thanks for that.
Cheers man! You might enjoy the latest track I put together with the Summit: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Came for the presets, stayed for the playing ! That was beautiful !
Waw... just .. waw ! Great playing. The Summit has very delicate keys, it's not easy to play THAT clean on the instrument. Very beautiful pieces that are played. Music heaven ...
Thank you Alain!
@@MikePensini You're welcome. Should you read this, have you got any artist or teacher you can recommend for learning the tools of the trade of playing or creating 80s music ?
I'm interested in the structure of the composing.. Grts.
@@alainvosselman9960 You could try Espen Kraft. He has made some tutorials on this.
@@80ssynthfan48 Thank you !!!
Great performance, summit rocks!
This demo is that good that I am encouraged to purchase this synth after watching it !
Cheers!
Maybe this will push you over the edge! - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
@@MikePensini well let's see
I just bought a used one from an online store because there are no new ones left anywhere... hope it's not screwed up in any way. This is an incredible sounding synth.
It's an incredibly well built synth, doubt you'd have an issue.
They are still being sold new from Navation so not sure why you couldn't find one however nothing wrong with used, I just bought a used Peak from cash converters £800.
What a huge difference it makes hearing a synth demoed in capable musical context vs. yet another yawner saying here’s a saw wave and diddling the filter knob.Thanks for this.
True, I have the Peak and My playing skills are nowhere nere this guy.
Very nice... I love all of theses ! my favourite is the one at 13:05 that could be nice playing the Underwater Song from Super Mario 64 hehe
Love that game, level and track! Perhaps that was a subconscious influence haha! I just put together a new track featuring the summit if you'd like to check it out, G Soubi - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
That sounds gorgeous
Yep, it sure is. I just uploaded a new demo to: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html if you want to check it out
This cat has riffs for days!
Haha, thanks man!
Here's another one! th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Anyone know what the patch that starts up around 2:50 is? I usually prefer to build patches from scratch but that tone is just beautiful.
Sold my Peak. Ordered a Summit. Need to wait 4 weeks....aaaargggh. Summit is (alongside the UDO6) clearly a top synth and a good investment. The only critics I have is : Why no digital output ?? (since I want to use Summit a soundsource for my V-synth XT)
That 'Floating Ether' preset at 7.55 is beautiful.
Majestic Sound .. I am in Love.
Majestic is a great way to describe it! Here's the latest track I put together featuring the Summit: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Great demo; beautiful synthesizer!!
Cheers Roger!
Holy smokes
I was convinced, that with enough work and effort, I could get a Hydrosynth to sound like a true analog poly synth, I haven’t bought a Hydrasynth yet, but am close. I put on my headphones and listen to the summit and kudos on your PLAYING on the summit, I just immediately thought: THERE IS THE SOUND! Crap…
So now I’m depressed.
When you get a sec, could you play those notes, just the way you played them, but on the Hydrosynth?
Oh…I SEE you do have a Hydrosynth video! Coolio.
I’m jumping ahead, but in SONIC PROWESS, I’ll bet YOU THINK
Summit wins.
Amazing job, Buddy!❤
What a Grand A/B this will be for me!
The summit is just fantastic, don't mind the hydra
@@xntricity6446 IT…would be my going to a deserted island-forever-and can take only 1. Gotta make it count!
I have two Novation Supernova MK2, question should I sell them both for this ?
That sounds really good!
Just bought the summit after watching mike pensini videos with the summit.
awesome demo, mike! and lovley sounding synth :)
Thank you Volt Age!
I just uploaded a new piece Volt Age, featuring the Summit - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
The first patch is so so so good
You might like this then th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
the funk riff at 15:00 is so so dope
You've got to check out his Arp odessey demo if you like his funk. I swear his hands nearly catch fire
This just set the bar for 2020 ,)
Pure art. People that can play like this can make everything sound good i guess. Would love to see a OB6 vs Summit battle by Mike Pensini.
Thanks man! That would be a fun battle!
By the way mate, if you'd like to check out the latest track I put together with the Summit, you can check it out here - th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Newly bought this monster machine! I can´t find the presets that´s been demonstrated hin this vid, not at least at the same memory locations on my Summit? Are they to be find on a webpage for downloading? - love the sounds and the way Mike Pensini brilliantly demonstrates them!
They might not be the factory presets because I have the Peak and I to cant find most of these sounds.
When a player plays a player‘s synth… great demo.
He is probably a trained professional piano player as all good sythersizor players usually are.
One synth to rule them all...
Back to the 80s Tanks for this Sound.
great sounds!
His Take 5 demo blows this away.
I'm not seeing it in the list
Thing is, the Summit blows the take 5 away.
A lady I met long ago, would really appreciate your playing, she passed away sorta recently, but she would see your playing and say .....finally....Someone that still uses appropriate pedagogy while playing in the modern instrument.
Her name was Dorothy Taubman.
....Maybe you've heard her? She definitely saved my hands.
We can "lose" how to play the keyboard instrument, which is not an easy instrument to play properly.
Especially when we tour or we are under pressure. Or we play naturally and a teacher we respect tells us to play another way.
It is really the duty of a teacher to teach correct coordinate bio mechanical technique to a student ,so they don't hurt themselves. And plus,
then they understand what they're doing, And they can forget about it and they never fall for any voodoo bullshit that someone passes on of the proper way to approach playing a keyboard, namely a piano to start.
When you don't have to worry about technique, the music can really flow 💥
Thank you Mike and I will check out your TH-cam channel
Jason
Sorry for your loss buddy.
I'm not as good life with keys however that hasn't stopped Me making and composing My own music.
I love the song and sound at 2:17
Jeeeez! That's one creamy sounding synth.
OK, I want one even more now, which sucks because they're like DUMB expensive lol
Don't watch this then.... haha th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Think this guy may have played keyboard a few times before this video.
That piece around 03:00 had me in space. 🚀🛰
Mike!...And this SYNTH! What theF!? you,...you synth, you. And YOU, Mike! : )
Haha!
heh heh...still BEAUTIFUL! .....MIKE! .... ; ) Be well during
these times of "stay-the-fuck-at-home" prohibitions. Peace to you and fam. luv luv ; )
@@pdautg Thank you pdautg! Yep, that's all one can do! Hope you're staying safe too! I just put a new demo up of the Summit if you want to check it out: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
Great synth! At 10:59 it really sounds like a prophet 5 and other patches even make it sound like a CS80.
It really nails the sound of both of those hey?! I just put a new demo up at: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html if you want to check it out!
@@MikePensini The sound you play at 2:50 sounds a bit like the pad at the beginning of Mezzoforte's Garden Party! This synth is so incredibly versatile!
@@martijn_nl It sure is, mate!
I've listen many many demos on this synth on TH-cam. Seems like the vast majority of the patches are just big phat paddish/ambient/atmospheric/brashish type of sounds. If you just focus on the Analog waveforms (saw/sine/square/triangle), is this synth capable of creating famous Prophet/OB/Moog patches? What about oscillator sync patches...The Cars "Let's Go" sync patch? Rush's "Tom Sawyer"? Styx's "Angry Young Man"? ELP "Lucky Man"? Genesis's "ABACAB" etc. etc.... I've yet to hear anyone playing lead-solos on this synth.
Mike i dont know why you dont review more gear. Few people can offer the same level of playing and sound design. You and Matt Johnson are really in a class of your own. People should be tossing you money to review their gear. My Summit is arriving a few days.
Thanks Ross, glad you enjoyed the video, mate! Enjoy your Summit!
Sounds like a DX7 through a Strymon Big Sky.
It can do DX7 vibes but so much more and analog as well.
Awesome!
Gorgeous sounds, great demo!
Cheers Marc
Hey Marc - if you liked these sounds check out the new demo over at: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
It would be a difficult decision to make between this marvellous analogue wonder & the equally powerful but Different Arturia Polybrute? Their both around the same price band, both brilliant poly synths, with different features, mmm I don't know which to go for.......🤔
When in doubt get both
I wish pal, my budget will only just stretch to the Novation summit😏
YES!!!
This guy can play.
Thanks Wooden Penny!
I agree. At least he demos in a synth style. The horrible cheese saw, he leans into. The sound pad he plays jazz voicings. I don't care about a chops demo but at least it's not plinking around or running to a sequencer or an arp. What does this instrument do when you breathe into it? Ya know?
Chris Dillon I hear that. I’m more into moody piano and EP sounds, ethereal and clamorous type of tones than the saw wave stuff. I guess that would be sine and square wave stuff. Lol. I think the Summit sounds really beautiful, this guys touch and taste in music really sales the machine.
gonna buy one today!!! :D
this synth or deluxe hydrasynth? or both?
Beautiful tones :)
Thank you CO5MA. I've put another piece up here if you want to check it out: th-cam.com/video/t8zygUVJCCI/w-d-xo.html
i would like to have the summit but i dont have that kind of money right now
il Novation Summit sarebbe la versione tastiera del Novation Peak? Sono uguali? Ho letto però su vari forum che Peak ha non pochi problemi e che, abbia un soffio di fondo antipatico.
Fuck that thing sounds good. Great demo.
Thanks man!
Is this the presets that come with The peak?
are these the factory presets? literally all the patches sound amazing
They certainly are.
Nice indeed
Unreal!!!
Sounds lovely hope these Presets are on My Peak, I dont know because I just got the thing.
Fantastic demo. Are these preset patches or custom patches?
Look like custom as I cant find them on the Peak.