In 2004 Novation brand pleased its fans with 3 MIDI controllers, among them there was Novation X-Station 61. Compared to its "brothers", it has the largest number of keys offering a 5-octave keyboard. The instrument shares many specs with Remote series. It also has the same silvery-gray matte color. However, X-Station is not a copy of Remote. The set of features of the controller is very different, and X-Station has a built-in synth. The 5-octave keyboard is semi-weighted, and in the middle there is a blue LCD with backlight.

You can connect the device to the computer via USB which is responsible for both MIDI data and audio. There are also 2 standard MIDI in/out, so you can use X-Station as MIDI interface. In general, each connection brings versatility: an additional power connector, the mentioned MIDI connectors, digital, as well as analog outputs, and finally connectors for the expression pedal, and the audio interface.
The central section has standard transport controls and an LED display. The left part of the panel is dedicated to the audio interface. The keyboard is identical to the keyboard installed in Remote, with aftertouch and velocity sensitive keys, a pitch/mod joystick, and the XY touchpad.

Novation X-Station offers an extensive control: 9 sliders, lots of knobs, rotary encoders and buttons. While Remote groups its control elements into types within 3 rows, X-Station has a slightly different approach, by locating all the elements together, which can correspond to the module panels of the software synthesizers. Thus, there is a group of knobs and buttons laid out as a section of the oscillator/mixer, filter section, LFO, arpeggiator and effects. The sliders are sorted as 2 modules of ADSR envelope generators. Besides, 8 knobs along the top of the synthesizer can be assigned to pan the mixer template controls.