Novation Bass Station 2 Editor

  • Control your Bass Station 2 synthesizer from your web browser.
  • All of the Bass Station 2 parameters are visible on screen.
  • Save, load and even print your patches.
  • And, for the fun, leave the application create a patch with the randomizer.

NOW ready for the new firmware 2.5 with 5 new functions added.Introduction of my Novation Bass Station 2 Editor. Now you can control the most parameters of y.

Requirements

  • Novation Bass Station 2 Editor For Mac, Windows Synthmania has introduced a new software editor, for Mac & Windows, for the Novation Bass Station 2 synthesizer. Here’s what they have to say about it: Since release in 2013 the Novation Bass Station 2 becomes one of the best monophonic synthesizers.
  • Novation USB Driver 2.22 Novation driver for Windows 7 and higher. Fixes an issue that could cause a crash when multiple Novation devices were connected to the same system and then disconnected.
  • Control your Bass Station 2 synthesizer from your web browser. No more hidden parameters. All of the Bass Station 2 parameters are visible on screen. Save, load and even print your patches! And, for the fun, leave the application create a patch with the randomizer.
  • Aug 10, 2018 Bass Station II Librarian software & firmware updater. Use with Windows Novation USB Driver 2.12. The MiniNova editor is available as a plug-in only, not as a.

This application requires a browser that support the WebMIDI standard.

Chrome and Opera support this standard. This app will not work in Firefox, Safari, Edge or IE.

Usage

  1. Open studiocode.dev/bs2-editor
  2. Allow the browser to use your MIDI devices
  3. If it's not already done, connect your Bass Station 2 to your computer.
  4. When the Bass Station 2 is connected the application logo will glow.
  5. Move a dial or a slider on your Bass Station 2, the corresponding on-screen control must move accordingly.
  6. Move a knob or a slider in the application, the corresponding parameter must follow in the Bass Station 2.
The logo glows when the Bass Station is connected and recognized by the application:
Bass Station 2 is disconnected:

Keyboard shortcuts:

Novation Bass Station 2 Editor
  • A..G : play the corresponding note. Add Shift for sharp and Alt for flat.
  • SPACE : play the last played note
  • I : init
  • R : randomize
  • L : toggle latch
  • O : toggle arpeggiator
  • S (or P, or ESC) : stop the current note
  • Up, Down, left, Right : patch up / down

Features:

Double-click on any knob's label to reset the knob to its default value.

Application Menu

Favorites

Open the Favorites panel.

You can save and recall your favorites patches here.

Your favorites are saved in your browser's local storage. No files are created.

A favorite is simply a URL with the following format:

Example:

Init

Reset the application and the Bass Station 2 with the default values (init patch).

Randomize

Randomize the parameters according to the Randomizer settings defined in the Settings panel.

Sync

Sync the application with the Bass Station 2. This is done by sending a request-for-sysex to the Bass Station 2.

Load patch

Open a dialog allowing you to select a sysex patch file (file with .syx extension). One loaded the patch is sent to the Bass Station 2.

Save patch

Open your browser's Save File dialog to save the current patch as a sysex dump file (file with .syx extension).

Patch sheet

Open a new window with the current patch displayed in a ready-to-print layout.

With Chrome you can even easily create a PDF file.

Midi

Open a samll window that will dump all the MIDI messages sent or received.

Settings

Open the Settings panel. Within this panel you can configure:

  • the MIDI channel to use to communicate with your Bass Station 2
  • the randomizer

About

Display the About dialog.

The MIDI parameters are documented in the official Novation Bass Station 2 user manual.

SysEx Dump

Editor

The application is able to receive and decode SysEx dumps coming from the Bass Station 2 ('FN-Key Global: Dump') as well as .syx patch files.

The SysEx dump format is not documented by Novation. I have reverse-engineered it and you can find the result
in my other project BS2-SysEx.

Click on About to view the list of libs used to build BS2-Web.

Novation is a registered trade mark of Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited.

Novation Bass Station 2 Editor App

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