MiniNova is a compact super-cool studio and lives synth with the same sound engine as its big brother UltraNova. It comes with 256 incredible onboard sounds that you can tweak with five knobs or warp with eight animate buttons. It has up to 18 voices with as many as five synth effects on each sound. MiniNova also has an onboard Vocal Tune effect as well as a classic vocoder so you can recreate iconic vocal sounds from hip hop urban and electronic music. Small synth big sounds Don t let its size fool you. MiniNova is the latest in the nova range of synths dating back to the legendary Supernova series. It has the same incredibly powerful sound engine and synth effects as the Novation UltraNova which means it is capable of creating dirty-fat bass synth sounds soaring leads lush pads and vintage synth sounds. All this is in a 37 mini-key form with a USB port and MIDI I/o so you can hook it up to your laptop and control your music software or connect it to another keyboard or sound module. Classic and brand-new vocal effects MiniNova takes vocal effects one step further. As well to a vocoder it has a Vocal Tune. This means you can talk into the mic and play the tune you want your voice to follow on the keyboard recreating those classic hip hop / urban vocal effects. You can also run your voice through MiniNova s effects engine adding reverb distortion chorus/phase gator compression or EQ. This doesn t need to be limited to your voice there is an input into which you can plug a guitar or any other instrument and give it the same treatment effects or vocoder.