Novation Bass Station II

Awesome Fun!

My first Mono Synth...Great fun...Easy to use! This little Synth just invites you to tweak and play, which is exactly what I wanted it for. I was fed up with menu diving in other Synths. I always enjoy sound designing on this instrument and the addition of the Paraphonic Mode just elevates the fun factor. 100% satisfied with my Bass Station 2.

Bass Power

A great sounding bass synth with very intuitive controls. I love how all essential features have their dedicated controls. You can quickly go from an idea of a sound in your head to creating it. The keyboard doesn't have lots of keys but they're plenty for a mono synth, especially since they have aftertouch. I'm not a great fan of the faders for the ADSR but they're decent. Overall a great synth to jam with, and to create bass tracks with, since it's almost impossible to NOT make a great bass sound.

This has to be in any professional musician's home

This thing is invaluable to me now. I have used it in pop, jazz-fusion, and rock gigs to add that synth-bass vibe. The only thing is that it feels cheap (Plasticy feel). BUT For the price, you're getting so much! This thing is amazing!

best synth in it's price range

no comparison it's the best within it's price range

Backgroung HISS/NOISE

UPDATE: They say it must be a faulty unit/defect.. so pretty good - my first purchase. It costs 500e, without testing if it's not faulty? If I buy synth for 3000e, and it won't work? Why does this shop has so many good reviews?

The sound of it is weird as it leaves some artifacts in the high end, and making it sound cheap.

This is happening even internally, only by using headphones. So it's not the cable's issue.

It's NOT the sound of the Noise/Ring/Ext that is built to the synth since I kept the levels for these additional things at zero.

This hiss is bit reduced when I turn the "Distortion" know at the low levels, but it's just still there. Distortion only multiplies it.

What's the point to use this? I have VSTs that sound clean and not like this.. dissapointed

Absolutely love it

Bought the bass station when upgrading my studio and its amazing, got a load of features visible and hidden (but easily found) features too

Beautifully rich sound that it produces.

Great for beginners and more vetted people too with the amount of options and the quality of sound

A very good engineered instrument. Can do effectively what was designed to do.

A great little synth and a great purchase

This is a great little mono-synth that is much more versatile than it's name suggests. It can be used for bass but it is much deeper than that ! This synth has had several firmware upgrades since i purchased it one of which introduced paraphony and another was involved with Aphex Twin !In addition this synth can also be used as a midi controller. All in all a great purchase.

Best choice starter synth

The BSII was my first hardware synth but I have some synthesis experience programming patches on VSTs for a few years now.

Now that I’ve made the switch to hardware, I’ll never look back. Don’t let the name fool you, this synth is not just for basses. I primarily use it for leads and the arp function is great.

As a starter synth, the layout is amazing, very easy to follow the signal flow on the synth. It also has a great function that shows how far you are away from a selected patch’s original setting when you twist a knob, a great learning tool.

The sound and capabilities for the price are outstanding.

Pros:

- powerful synth at a very reasonable price

- easy to use and great for learning synthesis

- a different beast when connected to external effect units (delay, reverb)

- lovely filter choices

- major firmware update released by Novation 5 years after initial release with a ton of new features, including duo mode, which turns this mono synth into a paraphonic weapon.

Cons

- for the price, none!

Novation Bass station 2

Excellent bit of kit.

I have managed to get hoover sounds, deep and dark bass noises and emulate loads for the early rave sounds I produce.

Well made, strong and sturdy

Defo recommends