Before the famous Novation BassStation Rack module came the small and portable BassStation Keyboard! Basically a 2-octave keyboard with a BassStation rack built-in. This synthesizer uses analog sound emulation to reproduce the sounds of a monophonic 2-VCO analog synthesizer with the same simple and intuitive controls via 17 knobs, 10 switches and 2 Moog-style pitch/mod wheels.
The BassStation can faithfully reproduce analog bass sounds just like a TB-303, Minimoog or Prophet synthesizer. The small keyboard and monophonic architecture set this keyboard up for strict bassline or lead synth lines. It also transmits MIDI continuous controller data for its pitch/mod wheels, frequency cutoff, resonance, filter modulation depth, env1 attack, decay and env2 attack and decay.
This unit is missing 3 knob caps as seen in the photo also the transformer has been fitted with a corded mains lead for two reasons.
- Transormer is rather large and cramps other plugs in a 4 way adapter.
- Earth pin snapped off and stopped transformer from being plugged in.
I have used the transformer for some years with no problems but a replacement can be picked up from maplin.co.uk for £11 http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=43448&doy=5m5