3 Cool Features Of The AFX Station & Bass Station 2

In this Perfect Circuit video, Novation’s Enrique Martinex shares three tips for using the new AFX Station or an upgraded Bass Station 2.

Any Bass Station 2 can be updated to support the features discussed in the video. The AFX Station features the latest firmware and a new look, along with updated panel graphics to make it easier to use AFX Mode.

Topics covered:

00:00 – Intro
01:03 – Overlays
02:04 – Fixed Sustain Duration
03:23 – Sub Oscillator Tuning
04:45 – Glide Divergence
05:33 – Oscillator Error

17 thoughts on “3 Cool Features Of The AFX Station & Bass Station 2

    1. Aphex twin, AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, GAK, Polygon Window, Q-Chastic, Richard D. James, The Tuss, user18081971…

    1. Apparently yes. Unless the new ones also have that gunky rubbery coating that fall apart in a few months.
      For that reason, the knobs currently on my BSII were taken from a cheap Behringer… compressor.

  1. Very helpful video. Those are all great new features. The separate glide times for each oscillator is particularly brilliant. The overlay copying looks to have really nicely thought out usability.

  2. Wake me up when they collaborate on some kind of real-time Kyma type synth hardware

    Instead of endlessly rehashing the same old shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over because that gets old after a while

    1. How many physical synths can you name that allow the user to program different patches for individual keys & allow the user to play those keys rather than swapping global patches?

      That’s pretty new as far as I’m aware but please prove me wrong, I’ll be stoked to find out more.

      If an easily accessible subtractive synth with new modulation functions is a fail, good for you champ! There’s loads of other DIY options out there to get unique synthesis systems running (Max for a start).

  3. Bummer. Am a bit dissapointed. Of course it is complaining on a high level but i still have to say that i own the BS2 and this does not make me wanna “want” a Afx BS2. What i would rather find super would be a BS3 with (you guessed right) a third Osc and maybe even some patch points. All of that in a metal enclosure. Then price it 500-700 euros. But as i said. I am complaining at a high level and its not really that important. Bs2 or Afx Bs are simply great synths by any standards.

    1. > a third Osc

      You must not have looked at the features. There is a third osc. The suboscillator is completely independently tunable, which makes it a third osc. And you can even upgrade your current machine to support this feature.

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