MOOG SUB 37 DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH MOD
MOOG SUB 37 DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH PLUS

Tubey, for example, adds a slight distorted effect, while Octaves pitches things up and Zing seems to bring the upper mids through for more presence.

MOOG SUB 37 DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH PLUS

With the oscillators, you can choose from four standard waveforms and then a further 17 that include some fairly obvious Random and Chord waveforms some instrument-based ones (Electric Piano, String, Organ and so on) plus some which are less obvious (Harsh, Wobbler and Tubey).

MOOG SUB 37 DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH MOD

So, to the synth engine of the Novation Peak itself and we have those eight voices, each with three oscillators, ring mod and noise sources. The racks shown in the main picture do not come with Peak, which is a shame, as they look very cool and angling it as shown makes it much better to control (I put Peak on some books to angle it). The Novation Peak is sadly not angled for desktop use, so sits rather flatly – although this doesn’t detract too much from screen or control visibility. It’s very well designed throughout, with a logical layout, so you get the main controls and screen top left and the signal flow of the synth engine starts from oscillators through to effects flowing left to right (wth the two LFOs top right).

The 40-plus rotaries feel good, not too loose, and have centre reference points on suitable parameters (coarse and fine tune, for example). Unboxing the Novation Peak, we have a solid desktop unit that feels like a great-quality product. The price point is high – or at least you might consider it that – but there’s a lot of hardware with specs similar to these for a lot more money, so let’s see how Peak competes.

The signal path takes a true analogue route through overdrive, filter and distortion sections and the effects are pure digital, so you can see we have something of a hybrid synth on our hands, albeit one that screams analogue in terms of sound and looks. There are three of these (plus noise and ring mod) per voice, and a maximum of eight notes of polyphony, depending on the voices used per sound. The signal path on the Novation Peak starts with the (digital) Oxford Oscillators – or ‘analogue sounding’ NCOs (Numerically Controlled Oscillators) – which Novation says run at such a high clock rate that you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart from true analogue oscillators. To be fair, it’s not really an eight-voice Bass Station, but it does share much of that synth’s heritage and sound.Ĭhris Huggett, the man behind the Wasp, the OSCar and Bass Station was a design consultant on Peak and, as we’ll see, there’s a big analogue sound here, although with more digital input at its heart than Bass Station had. Four years down the line and we now have Peak. In August 2017, Moog announced the successor to the now discontinued Sub 37, the Moog Subsequent 37, which includes many of the features of the limited edition Subsequent 37 CV including a new key bed and increased headroom but does not include the four assignable CV outputs and two gate output.At the time, there was a rumour – possibly started by me – that an eight-voice version would be next. In May 2017, Moog announced its successor, the Moog Subsequent 37 CV, which featured an additional four assignable CV outputs, and two gate output in a limited edition of 2000 units. The synthesizer has an analog signal path and digital modulators. The Moog Sub 37 is a limited edition monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 2014.

Moog sub 37 digital signal path