Novation Bass Station II Analogue Monosynth – includes 64 factory patches, pattern-based step sequencer and arpeggiator, two oscillators plus an additional sub oscillator

After a lot of play with virtual analogs in my DAW I realised that I want to put my hands on a real one. I bought this little wonder as my first analogue synth and am very happy with it. Apart from its beautiful sounding analogue "unpredictability" and "honesty", for me its killer feature is that it's digitally controlled. So you can save and load your patches (to all 128 memory positions) and transfer it to your computer. I'd really miss this feature with some modern synths on the market; I'd be too lazy to start from scratch and too attached to current patch to dismantle it.This synth has beautiful, big keys with just a right (synthesizer) weight. It has a bunch of features, with some of them visible and controllable with knobs, other slightly hidden, but still accesible. Physically turning knobs and faders and getting the immediate change is the greatist thing you get from analogue synths. It's like having a chisel and hammer in your hand, turning a stone into the sculpture. The impact on sound is tremendous, incomparable to digital synths. I would suggest this synth to any synth enthusiast and any newcomer to synthsesis.The build quality of this thing (the hausing, keys, knobs) is great. The synth is small and fits any table (I use it while doing other things on my computer as fidget toy :)). It's relatively light and it also fits to your lap.Overall, a great sounding toy for a great price, with no negative sides. I'd recommend it anytime.

This synth has the best DCO implementation of any other synth on the market, by far. It has a ton of nice features and allows you to easily adjust many parameters.There are two negative things about this synth: the filter's amplification stage goes into distortion easily with medium and high resonance settings. This is not avoidable. This distortion is not what I'd call "pleasant", but well, it's not terrible, and it sounds very nice either way.It's not possible to adjust the filter's keyboard tracking, and the "acid" filter is stuck at "50%".Other than that, especially considering its cost, this synth is amazingly versatile and has great sound quality, and it's just fun, so less than 5 stars would be unfair. Nothing else competes with it at its price, and its DCOs are better than any other synth's at any price, regardless.

It's amazing how much fun can be had with a couple of oscillators (plus a sub), manipulated by a pair of LFOs, passing through some quality filters. It's an astounding instrument and fabulous value for money.

Annoyed with myself for not getting one sooner, it's just fantastic. Had it up and running with automation in Ableton live within about 30 seconds. Seem less.Killer sound, huge. All at the fingertips.I love it.

WOW....thats my opener. i had the original BS back when it came out. it was all too much of a muchness and nothing like a 303 or anything else for that matter. it lacked character and presence.in this modern time of all loving analogues and retro gear, this is just bang on on all counts. a seriously easy to use piece of kit. i mean seriously a no need to read manual scenario. it has bags and bags of attitude thanks to the distortion effect. filters switch between classic and acid which is said to emulate the 303right well it doesnt, it has its own fluid character and to my mind, everyone in the world is pretty sick of a squelchy or barky 303;The build is solid. ok its plastic, but its a tight solid build. against the Arturia Minibrute, this is what that synth needed to be.unlike the Brute, its keys wont fall to bits and if you have customer support needs, Novation wont drop you like a bad habit.Wicked sequncer and arp. memories for your favourites sounds and enough presets to give you a starting point.

This synthesizer is truly fantastic. I believe it is great for hip hop, trance, drum and bass, techno and pretty much all dance music. I have connected it to my akai XR20 and it is fantastic.

What's not to like everything you want from a syinth

Brilliant analogue, for the money. Packed with features. Highly recommend.