Possibly the punchiest synth. I owned Nova desktop and Nova XL keyboard which is Supernova II engine. This is definitely one of the best virtual analogs ever made. It has it's bugs and weak spots, but there is far more of the good stuff. I find the effects to really work well for synth sounds. I even like the metallic reverb. When it came out I remember people complaining that it sounds thin without FX which is definitely not true. It has a very thick sound, thick lower mids, possibly too thick and you have to EQ that out. For me it's the best synth for bases because it punches and has quite a bit of bottom end. The oscillator phase reset certainly helps with this. I might get one again.
My platinum is in it's flight box - breaking it out this weekend! :D Thanks for the inspiration, the Supernova is a forgotten gem - Novation need to have a look at it again, years ahead.
Nice sounds!! I used to have a Novation KS4 which was almost spot on with comparison to the Supernova...but I sold it, kinda miss it now but I just recently got a UltraNova so all good now.
Current electronic music is soulless because it doesn't run on circuitry. Virtual instruments with never match up the the real thing, ever! That is the reason why electronic music from the 90s won't ever be beaten in terms of quality and warmth of sounds.
plugins sucks!!! Especially all those famous ones...they might be good for certain genres and yes times moved on and gave us stars such as avicii etc. but the soul of the 90s is hard to recreate with plugins only...possible but why not just use real instruments!
UNLESS....you delve into Osirus / OsTIrus. a free emulator that emulates the motorola chip found in these synths including Access Virus A/B/C/TI/TI2 etc and Supernova etc. It's WILD!
Dude, just keep doing that... for like an hour... then put on a cool helmet... you'll be YYYUUUUGGGEE... that was so cool... Watching you just kind of bang that stuff out was like an EDM version of watching an ol Mississippi blues man just bang out some heartfelt soul... just picks up that ol geetar and lets it out...
my favorite part has got to be 2:02 it's ridiculous how much that takes me back to the trance days of the late 90's early 2000's. I wanted one of these baby's but i had to settle for a JP-8000 but one day I will have this!!!! In fact, sell it to me! :D
4:20 it gets so fricking Dutch Force/Rank 1 Airwave...one of the reaons i got back into music was one evening in 2000 hearing that on a car radio. Blew my mind. Now i have a sn2 which i have had for many years. but it seems to have died!!!
Yeah I love the SN for that reason, it nails the late 90's trance. So what happened is this unit was defective so I had to return it. In the future I want to pick up a desktop Nova again. Dutch Force Deadline is one of my alltime favourites, still get chills.
Pure soft synth user here... but, frankly, if i had the money i'd purchase a hardware synth too. There's something about the tactile feeling, that is really attractive, if you only fiddle with virtual stuff. Nice sounds there. :)
Definitely. It's not just the hands on thing either, you can get midi controllers for example, but there is also something to the sound engines people have developed over the years, not everything is replaceable with something else.
As you have/had the Mininova too, and, as we all love comparisons :), what do you think about the Mini/Ultranova compated to the Supernova? I watched a lot of videos the last days, and, IMO, the Supernova sounds a bit more "dirty", has more beef, meaning that the envelopes just create a bit more bang with fast decay times, also audible in your video, and, overall, the Mini/Ultranova seems to sound a bit more "bland" in comparison. The price is definitely attractive ATM, you can get the Ultranova for 440 € here in Germany, but, i don't know, the Supernova seems to sound a bit better to me.
The feeling, easy editing, good keyboard, and that's about all advantages you get from having a synth like this. I get better sounds from Bazille, Diva, TAL-Sampler, Serum, Spire, and I have a couple of hardware samplers, too.
Sorry I only had the SuperNova 2 for a short while. There was something wrong with it, so I never had time to make a bank. I might buy a Nova Desktop and make a soundbank for that though.
I had one of these for a little while, I remember the unison on it sounded absolutely terrible, very heavily phased. But you made it sound nice, very similar to a lot of classic trance lead sounds from around 2000-2010.
2:03 how do you call that synth sound type? saw lead pluck? can you give me a recepie how to get the saw filter combination to sound that fat? is it filter drive or do you layer the saw with another oscillator for beefy low mids and low end?
I had a Nova II, but sold it to get a Virus Indigo, eventually it to for a TI 2. Can get much thicker leads out of the Virus, and that was always my problem with Novation synths. They were great for pads, but getting a nice detuned lead out of them was somewhat difficult. It was also somewhat difficult to get them to sound "nasty" Always did great bass sounds though. for their time, they were massive synths though.
yeah, that's why I like combining different synths in tracks, and play them all off their respective strengths (and shore up against their individual weaknesses). Get some great tunes that way
@@AiynZahevSounds I had the SN2 rack here in the UK but always wished I'd bought the keyboard. I used it at my mates studio and it was just such a high quality instrument mate ... If you have an amazing 61/88 key fully weighted controller keyboard already then yeah fair enough grab a rack but otherwise I would use the SN2 as my controller keyboard for everything else in the studio .... I am really tempted to grab the UltraNova at the minute but only one voice is kinda killing it for me when I got so used to running 4 out of the SN2 ... and believe me you would find a use for 4 on every track and wish you had more
@@AiynZahevSounds About what fault are you talking about ? Honestly, I was also wait for your soundbank for Supernova. Your synth programming knowledge is timeless.
@@vanderson_pl So sorry. Yeah there was something wrong with the unit and it was giving me little electric shocks all the time. And the timing was all over the place.
Not sure if you're still reading comments on here, but would you be able to give me some pointers in recreating the first sound you play on this video? It's a square wave with short attack and release, with some distortion, but around the 0:22 mark you bring in some modulation. What is that? Sounds like Sync between Oscs 1 and 2, with LFO modulating the pitch of Osc 2, but I'm struggling to recreate it on my Novation KS4...
@@AiynZahevSounds Good to see you're still replying to comments :D. Got a question myself. Regarding that supersaw style lead towards the end of the video, how did you achieve it? I recently bought a SNII but I can't seem to get my head around how to get that fat detuned sound. My attempts are either too buzzy or sound thin. Also, how do you set init patches as I can't seem to find any on my synth? Thanks.
@@beatha5928 at this point I’d need to look in the manual again, but you have to set up unison with free running phase on the oscillators, there’s a mode for the oscillators where each one is 3 detunes waves as well. That and keep the filter resonance at minimum and turn up the high EQ
I found a part of it again. Novation had a what is now an unconventional way of naming the oscillator behavior. Inside the oscillators settings menu there’s a setting that is either percussive or ensemble. Percussive is phase reset mode and ensemble gives you free running oscillators. A lot of people miss this parameter because it’s buried and I think by default it might be set to percussive. You’ll only get a nice smooth unison in ensemble mode. You’ll find the info on Page 70 of the manual for the supernova 2.
@@gesnerjr.gaugirard6831 How are you liking it? I got an Ultranova for super cheap but am having a hard time trying to make a patch or patches that sound like this :(
@@thefastandthefurious1 Hey, I like it very well :) I always been confident with saw oscillators when I was working on a lead but right now I am finally confident also with squares! I don't know what are your issues but if I had to suggest you one thing, I would tell you to detune your oscillators as fuck, than follow your inspiration when it's about tweaking effects or modulation.
I should say there is a High shelf EQ in the Nova synths that I cranked up really high, and then forgot about. So all these sounds have the high end boosted quite a lot, which will tend to make them sound thinner.
Their ultranova mini nova struggle from the same thin bland sound.Otherwise very deep.engines.to.program.The Novation Nova seems.the one with otb sound
yea, i absolutely love mine, i think the virus is too harsh and metallic sounding, while jp is more pleasing to the ear. Althought i have always liked the v-station and i always wanted to try out the supernova but i don't think it's worth the money right now.
Obviously, you don't own a SNiikb. I love my JP8000, too (along with my Viruses et al) but the SNiikb has a presence that NOTHING made before or since touches... That includes the TI2, the System-8, all of the Nord Leads, the AN1x, the Radias and Kingkorg (and ms2000), the Waldorfs, or anything else. It's too bad Novation tried to follow this with the today different, sonically vastly inferior JOKE of synths that don't deserve the Nova names (Ultra and Mini). Those aren't Novas any more than the Gaia is a JP-8000.
Aye, it is an epic monster worthy of its legendary status - use mine all the time. Although for plucks, it's kind of a PIA to work with - have to jump to the Blofeld or Virus for those, cause of that JP filter click. The SN here sounds pretty freakin' sweet for plucks too... might have to get one someday to add into the studio
@@AiynZahevSounds supernova and nova II have better detune capacbility on nova 1 and supernova 1 os need to be 4.1 for running cool detuning and unissonand not equal as supernova II
i see you have the "Platinum" version of the Supernova 2. They should have kept the whole top as a silver color instead of changing the color of the panel having the voice selection buttons, display and arp controls to dark gray while keeping the lettering as black. God awful hard to read. One of the worst synth design decisions ever made. What were they smoking?
Say what you want but to me it sounds just like an average VSTi, not even top quality one. I am surprised. Terribly sounding distortion. Sounds so crappy digital it hurts my ears. Not everything that looks like hardware sounds like hardware, chaps!
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Will go back in my Hamburg Clubs - wish i could turn back in the year 2000. That was the SOUND OF MY LIFE. THX...
Weedy Gerechtikus I know what you mean bro
I like Israeli osytrance better; it’s more complex.
Oh man ... i miss my nova ..
It's always entertaining to see a good synth in the hands of a wizard.. : )
That third preset is amazing, please do an in depth tutorial on how to create it please
this synth is trully incredible so many nuance you can do with it especialy the supersquare he is coming from space
None of modern synths have such bright sound
And none of them have the punch of Supernova.
Bright, AND SWEET! Wow, can't wait to fire mine up (it's been 20 years!)
The Rev2 does!
Although it can't play chords when you make supersaws, so there is that 🤷🏼♂️
@@KulshanStudiosThe Rev2 can do shapemod of the saw wave, so a kind of supersaw is possible in polyphonic mode.
That sync swell at 3:38 with the delay is really great
Awesome! I love my SNII, used it for something in every track since I bought it. The Platinum ones are very rare these days!
Possibly the punchiest synth. I owned Nova desktop and Nova XL keyboard which is Supernova II engine.
This is definitely one of the best virtual analogs ever made. It has it's bugs and weak spots, but there is far more of the good stuff. I find the effects to really work well for synth sounds. I even like the metallic reverb.
When it came out I remember people complaining that it sounds thin without FX which is definitely not true. It has a very thick sound, thick lower mids, possibly too thick and you have to EQ that out. For me it's the best synth for bases because it punches and has quite a bit of bottom end. The oscillator phase reset certainly helps with this.
I might get one again.
Want to buy mine?
True Trance, not today's Big Room Shit Tr'House!!!
Filipe I agree. I prefer emotional synth sounds.
I had one and I created new stuff everyday. Awesome synth by an awesome maker.
My platinum is in it's flight box - breaking it out this weekend! :D
Thanks for the inspiration, the Supernova is a forgotten gem - Novation need to have a look at it again, years ahead.
They listened to you: behold the SUMMIT
Nice sounds!! I used to have a Novation KS4 which was almost spot on with comparison to the Supernova...but I sold it, kinda miss it now but I just recently got a UltraNova so all good now.
Current electronic music is soulless because it doesn't run on circuitry. Virtual instruments with never match up the the real thing, ever! That is the reason why electronic music from the 90s won't ever be beaten in terms of quality and warmth of sounds.
plugins sucks!!! Especially all those famous ones...they might be good for certain genres and yes times moved on and gave us stars such as avicii etc. but the soul of the 90s is hard to recreate with plugins only...possible but why not just use real instruments!
UNLESS....you delve into Osirus / OsTIrus. a free emulator that emulates the motorola chip found in these synths including Access Virus A/B/C/TI/TI2 etc and Supernova etc. It's WILD!
Nice Platinum S2 !!
Dude, just keep doing that... for like an hour... then put on a cool helmet... you'll be YYYUUUUGGGEE... that was so cool... Watching you just kind of bang that stuff out was like an EDM version of watching an ol Mississippi blues man just bang out some heartfelt soul... just picks up that ol geetar and lets it out...
Thanks that was a good thought.
That’s the keys. Live Trance. #TrancePleaseComeBack
my favorite part has got to be 2:02 it's ridiculous how much that takes me back to the trance days of the late 90's early 2000's. I wanted one of these baby's but i had to settle for a JP-8000 but one day I will have this!!!! In fact, sell it to me! :D
Que opinas del ultranova?
4:20 it gets so fricking Dutch Force/Rank 1 Airwave...one of the reaons i got back into music was one evening in 2000 hearing that on a car radio. Blew my mind. Now i have a sn2 which i have had for many years. but it seems to have died!!!
Yeah I love the SN for that reason, it nails the late 90's trance. So what happened is this unit was defective so I had to return it. In the future I want to pick up a desktop Nova again. Dutch Force Deadline is one of my alltime favourites, still get chills.
SamiRabia hi 👋🏼 I’ve been looking at an SNII for sale but I’m really looking for early to mid 90s trance sounds. Do you have any recommendations?
Amazing!
Really good sound design buddy..this keyboard rocks
friend, this is amazing - I think I know what I need now
2022 I continue dreaming with this sound. Marvelous
Pure soft synth user here... but, frankly, if i had the money i'd purchase a hardware synth too. There's something about the tactile feeling, that is really attractive, if you only fiddle with virtual stuff.
Nice sounds there. :)
Definitely. It's not just the hands on thing either, you can get midi controllers for example, but there is also something to the sound engines people have developed over the years, not everything is replaceable with something else.
As you have/had the Mininova too, and, as we all love comparisons :), what do you think about the Mini/Ultranova compated to the Supernova? I watched a lot of videos the last days, and, IMO, the Supernova sounds a bit more "dirty", has more beef, meaning that the envelopes just create a bit more bang with fast decay times, also audible in your video, and, overall, the Mini/Ultranova seems to sound a bit more "bland" in comparison. The price is definitely attractive ATM, you can get the Ultranova for 440 € here in Germany, but, i don't know, the Supernova seems to sound a bit better to me.
I much prefer the old Nova's.
Just as i thought. :D Just like so much these days, rather a step back than a step forward with the modern synths... anyway, thanks for telling.
The feeling, easy editing, good keyboard, and that's about all advantages you get from having a synth like this. I get better sounds from Bazille, Diva, TAL-Sampler, Serum, Spire, and I have a couple of hardware samplers, too.
Good job! Excellent... Supernova II !!!! What is nuber this patches please? I have this instrument 2 nd day and trying possibilities :-)
These are patches I made myself.
would you like to share some patches or will they be available (commercial ?) for download?
Sorry I only had the SuperNova 2 for a short while. There was something wrong with it, so I never had time to make a bank. I might buy a Nova Desktop and make a soundbank for that though.
would be great , love the novation :)
Beautiful
I just bought an Ultranova. I hope it can do half of what the SN can do lol
dream synth. I'll own one someday
Possible to upload the soundbank or presets? Would be cool to learn from them since I just purchased a Nova & am a beginner with sound design. Thx
dropping 3 eccies and putting this video on repeat
Jawoll, der gute alte Trance!
2:24 very goa sound... like it
When you say "Some external echo and reverb added" what did you use for that?
Platinum Edition !!
Great sound
easi trance zene.csinàl goa technot!
I had one of these for a little while, I remember the unison on it sounded absolutely terrible, very heavily phased. But you made it sound nice, very similar to a lot of classic trance lead sounds from around 2000-2010.
Supernova 1 you mean the unison on supernova sound awesome ^^
4:18 -- Okay, now I'm getting some VNV Nation vibes.
2:03 how do you call that synth sound type? saw lead pluck? can you give me a recepie how to get the saw filter combination to sound that fat? is it filter drive or do you layer the saw with another oscillator for beefy low mids and low end?
perfect
novation is actually v good for trants lol i was rocking the vstation for years :P
I had a Nova II, but sold it to get a Virus Indigo, eventually it to for a TI 2. Can get much thicker leads out of the Virus, and that was always my problem with Novation synths. They were great for pads, but getting a nice detuned lead out of them was somewhat difficult. It was also somewhat difficult to get them to sound "nasty"
Always did great bass sounds though.
for their time, they were massive synths though.
yeah, that's why I like combining different synths in tracks, and play them all off their respective strengths (and shore up against their individual weaknesses). Get some great tunes that way
Perfeckt......
phantastic
First one is a hit!
Great sounds! Have you ever used a nova 2? Trying to decide to decide whether to get a nova 2 or supernova 2 if one comes up on ebay. thanks
No, but I had the Nova desktop for a while, and while it's cool to have some of the extra features on the SNII I'd be happy with the desktop.
Cool, thats good to here. Is the arp\sequencer the same for the nova desktop and SNII?
Sorry I just realized I replied with my other account!
Back to your question, I think they share the same arp features. Also the arp is really deep.
dream keyboard
Where are the notes coming from? Are they pre-sequenced or something?
played from his DAW most likely
Arpeggiator - most synthesizers come with them (some programmable), allowing you to play funky melodies with single or even multiple sounds.
4:00 wow
Dude I Need To Buy This Machine Please Help Me Please Please ....
HUGE
This is just what I've been searching for all these years. Is the Rack the same as the keyboard, if just using midi?
Yes if you get the SuperNova II rack. Rare though, at least in the US.
@@AiynZahevSounds I had the SN2 rack here in the UK but always wished I'd bought the keyboard. I used it at my mates studio and it was just such a high quality instrument mate ... If you have an amazing 61/88 key fully weighted controller keyboard already then yeah fair enough grab a rack but otherwise I would use the SN2 as my controller keyboard for everything else in the studio .... I am really tempted to grab the UltraNova at the minute but only one voice is kinda killing it for me when I got so used to running 4 out of the SN2 ... and believe me you would find a use for 4 on every track and wish you had more
Hello ... Can I learn the price of the device ??? Thank you ..
yesss
I have a SN Pro 48Voice that I've owned from new since they were released. I wish someone could help me to learn not program sounds like this !!!!!!
How come you don't sell these patches for the supernova 2?
I didn’t have it long enough I’m afraid. It had a fault where it kept mildly shocking me
@@AiynZahevSounds About what fault are you talking about ? Honestly, I was also wait for your soundbank for Supernova. Your synth programming knowledge is timeless.
@@vanderson_pl So sorry. Yeah there was something wrong with the unit and it was giving me little electric shocks all the time. And the timing was all over the place.
@@AiynZahevSounds ok understand, thank you for answer
I Want To Buy One From This Machine, How Can I Do It ... Can You Help Me Sir ?????
Look on eBay I guess. They are rare though.
Yes I understand ... I Must Find It ..
Thanks....
Тиесто не его случайно использовал?
Not sure if you're still reading comments on here, but would you be able to give me some pointers in recreating the first sound you play on this video? It's a square wave with short attack and release, with some distortion, but around the 0:22 mark you bring in some modulation. What is that? Sounds like Sync between Oscs 1 and 2, with LFO modulating the pitch of Osc 2, but I'm struggling to recreate it on my Novation KS4...
Hey. It's really more simple than that, a very fast LFO slightly modulating a square oscillator.
@@AiynZahevSounds ah, thanks, I'll give it a go!
@@AiynZahevSounds Good to see you're still replying to comments :D. Got a question myself. Regarding that supersaw style lead towards the end of the video, how did you achieve it? I recently bought a SNII but I can't seem to get my head around how to get that fat detuned sound. My attempts are either too buzzy or sound thin. Also, how do you set init patches as I can't seem to find any on my synth? Thanks.
@@beatha5928 at this point I’d need to look in the manual again, but you have to set up unison with free running phase on the oscillators, there’s a mode for the oscillators where each one is 3 detunes waves as well. That and keep the filter resonance at minimum and turn up the high EQ
I found a part of it again. Novation had a what is now an unconventional way of naming the oscillator behavior. Inside the oscillators settings menu there’s a setting that is either percussive or ensemble. Percussive is phase reset mode and ensemble gives you free running oscillators. A lot of people miss this parameter because it’s buried and I think by default it might be set to percussive. You’ll only get a nice smooth unison in ensemble mode. You’ll find the info on Page 70 of the manual for the supernova 2.
Could you share me the arpeggio for the first sample? I'd like to build a track out of it - I would give you credit for the melody of course :)
do these work on the nova ?
Eargasm
Any more pics of the customization? Did you do it yourself?
NM, just realized this must be the platinum edition :)
This IS the Platinum edition. Very rare.
I wan't one novation synth wathever if it is nova 1, 2, supernova or ultranova *-* ♪♫
And now I got it :D ♪♫ supernova 2
@@gesnerjr.gaugirard6831 How are you liking it? I got an Ultranova for super cheap but am having a hard time trying to make a patch or patches that sound like this :(
@@thefastandthefurious1 Hey, I like it very well :) I always been confident with saw oscillators when I was working on a lead but right now I am finally confident also with squares! I don't know what are your issues but if I had to suggest you one thing, I would tell you to detune your oscillators as fuck, than follow your inspiration when it's about tweaking effects or modulation.
Nice sounds , the synth is a bit thin sounding tough
thin? Seriously :-D Respectfully, get other speakers or headphones... Ths synth sounds bloody fat in real life. Trust me :-)
I should say there is a High shelf EQ in the Nova synths that I cranked up really high, and then forgot about. So all these sounds have the high end boosted quite a lot, which will tend to make them sound thinner.
Lawrence O i have quite expensive headphones and my converters are very transparent its thin sounding as most digital plugins sounds better nowadays..
The synth sounds good.
Their ultranova mini nova struggle from the same thin bland sound.Otherwise very deep.engines.to.program.The Novation Nova seems.the one with otb sound
the JP 8080 is still THE Trance syth of all time
yea, i absolutely love mine, i think the virus is too harsh and metallic sounding, while jp is more pleasing to the ear. Althought i have always liked the v-station and i always wanted to try out the supernova but i don't think it's worth the money right now.
and jp8000...... the smoothnes of the filter a.o.t
Obviously, you don't own a SNiikb. I love my JP8000, too (along with my Viruses et al) but the SNiikb has a presence that NOTHING made before or since touches... That includes the TI2, the System-8, all of the Nord Leads, the AN1x, the Radias and Kingkorg (and ms2000), the Waldorfs, or anything else.
It's too bad Novation tried to follow this with the today different, sonically vastly inferior JOKE of synths that don't deserve the Nova names (Ultra and Mini). Those aren't Novas any more than the Gaia is a JP-8000.
I sold my JP8000. Cool machine but there is other gear out there capaple of so much more.
Aye, it is an epic monster worthy of its legendary status - use mine all the time. Although for plucks, it's kind of a PIA to work with - have to jump to the Blofeld or Virus for those, cause of that JP filter click. The SN here sounds pretty freakin' sweet for plucks too... might have to get one someday to add into the studio
can you send midi for the first melody?
trance music = all delay
Seems like you know literally nothing about Trance music.
Works on nova too?
Yeah pretty much
cool @@AiynZahevSounds
@@AiynZahevSounds supernova and nova II have better detune capacbility on nova 1 and supernova 1 os need to be 4.1 for running cool detuning and unissonand not equal as supernova II
Which genre of trance is it?
Just classic trance really, 99-2000's stuff. I can point you to some mix compilations if you like.
@@AiynZahevSounds Yes please! :)
4:22
i see you have the "Platinum" version of the Supernova 2. They should have kept the whole top as a silver color instead of changing the color of the panel having the voice selection buttons, display and arp controls to dark gray while keeping the lettering as black. God awful hard to read. One of the worst synth design decisions ever made. What were they smoking?
I think those stinkin Electronic cigarettes with some kinda crazy flavors 😅
its Novation KS4 or KS5, not Supernova 2
Say what you want but to me it sounds just like an average VSTi, not even top quality one. I am surprised. Terribly sounding distortion. Sounds so crappy digital it hurts my ears. Not everything that looks like hardware sounds like hardware, chaps!
the square is miles away from vst ^^
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