Congratulations to @WeAreNovation and @AphexTwin on the AFX Station.
Bizarre to see a product that took shape in Novation's own R&D dept 6-7 years ago hit the market now.
A thread, if I may...

I'm not seeking bad blood here, I certainly wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today without Novation, and RDJ has supported our business a few times, but it's very odd to see ideas I offered up to Novation passed off as someone else's.

Whether this is all a case of great minds etc. remains to be seen, but this whole thing seems... odd...

I worked for Novation during an industry placement year as part of my university course. I learned a HELL of a lot whilst there, but also managed to become a small part of the team working on the BSII. As such, I threw in some more "wildcard" ideas on to the R&D fire.

One such idea came in the form of a PureData patch which worked in between the BSII's MIDI keyboard output and its synth engine input. The PD patch would take key hits, convert them into program changes and, voila, AFX Mode.

This is absolutely not a novel idea by any means, and I'm sure it's something that RDJ had/has been doing for years, but Novation had this back in 2014. Does it take 5 years to implement basic-but-weird program change functionality into firmware? Nope.

Secondly is the look of this thing - to me this is near unbelievable. I dressed a pre-production unit in Davies knobs back in 2014 and had the general consensus from the R&D dept that it looked shit.

It's interesting putting the FSS house style next to the new AFX Station. Sure, not the same, but that Cutoff knob is a straight up Davies rip off.