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Novation Nova VST control interface

Archive · 2012 4 old posts

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graywolf2004 ·

Hello. This is my almost finished version on VST control interface for Novation Nova. Should work with SuperNova also, though I have no SuperNova to test it. It's bi-directional. The only drawback - it doesn't support SysEx, so it can't request patches from Nova. I don't need it anyway, since I tweak everything. But the best thing - multimode it 100% supported. I already used it in FL Studio - 6 instances (Nova has 6 parts). All tweaks are memorised within project. On project load it automatically sends all patch data to synth (I used some workarounds to make it work).

Anyone with Nova/SuperNova to check it out?

This is a VST dll created with SM Pro.

MegaHurtz ·

Looks badass, makes me wanna own one.

matti ·

Wow! This is so cool! 🙂 I was going to do a Nova editor myself when i'd have the time. I'll try this one instead. Looks great.

Btw. It's a shame Novation hasn't released information on the sysex implementation of (Super)Nova. That's pretty much the only reason i haven't done the editor yet. With a bit of hackerism it could be done though.

I'm still not sure if sysex is entirely necessary. It has felt to be more stable than sending everything up to the synth as CC/NRPN, but with a good midi-interface the difference is rather small (except on data amount ofcourse).

graywolf2004 ·

Thanks. Looking forward for your feedback. Btw I uploaded youtube video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfxWutQRXQs

I thought of implementing Sysex patch transfer also. But what stopped me from doing it: 1. I don't really need it, always creating sound from scratch. On Nova it's sunch an easy thing. 2. Reverse-engeneering sysex patch structure is such a boring task. 3. I'm not sure it will work in multi-channel mode, since Sysex data goes midi channel-independent. With cc\nrpn you can run several instances of plugin and it works like a charm, each instance addressing a part with it's own MIDI channel, like you have 6 independent VST synths.

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