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Pitch-shift adds real-time pitch-shifting of up to two octaves in either direction. You can position the Vocal Tune effect before or after the filters, or insert it at theeffects stage. This last option is especially suited to pitch-shifting, as it removes the need to press akey before hearing the effect.

Vocal Tune is far from natural, but that's hardly the point anyway, and to push it even further into unreality, there's vibrato and pitch-wheel control too. The only cloud on the horizon is for Ultranova owners. Novation inform me that the Vocal Tune effect can't be added to the older synth, but the silver lining is that amajor upgrade is scheduled for its vocoder, in due course.

If you can live with akeyboard so small — and the popularity of Korg's original Microkorg suggests that many of you can — this is ahighly compact and portable version of the Ultranova which sacrifices none of its impressive sonic weaponry. The Perform matrix and large cutoff knob go further than I'd expected, especially given the number of patch variations afforded by the Animate pads. And as surprise extras go, the Vocal Tuner is an absolute blast. Even if it inspires afresh burst of Cher imitators, it's definitely the Mininova's ace in the hole. Ditto for the vocoder, which is areal plus this time.

With so many boxes ticked, there are only two Novation have missed. The first is battery power. Perhaps adding USB-sourced power is enough, laptops being ubiquitous and all, but if you like to jam in the park, recording into an iPad or other portable device, omission of battery power could be significant. The second is lack of multitimbrality. As per theUltranova, the Mininova can play just one sound at once. Fortunately, it sounds every bit as good as the Ultranova and with asimilar editor to be supplied, shouldbe every bit as easy to program. The Mininova is small enough to slot into just about any setup and priced to tempt you to do just that. Isuspect it will do verywell.

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