You are looking at the inside of a Hartmann Neuron. Check out the motherboard and harddrive. Amazing. I remember hearing it was a pc, but to actually see it like this is kind of surreal. Beauty on the outside and a pc on the inside. Title link takes you to the post on sequencer.de.
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Hard to believe nobody wanted to pay $2,000 for a PC running a softsynth in a fancy box...
ReplyDeleteok, so what will it take to run the neuron operating system on a pc?
ReplyDeletei suspect this is a embedded linux derivative like the korg oasys. perhaps the control surface is just a huge usb faderbox? maybe it will not work without the control surface plugged in... i have some experience with networking equipment based on pc motherboards, such as cisco pix and checkpoint firewalls whose operating systems can be coerced into running on ordinary pc motherboards, so this is very possible :) cheers 7ate9
Seems like you'd need all that i/o hardware on the left besides the front panel controls to run it on a PC. By the time you re-write all that you might as well write a VSTi.... ahem...
ReplyDeleteDid anyone record anything with it? It seems like a neat pad machine.
ReplyDeleteThere's some samples of it on the bluesynths.com site. I didn't hear anything that blew me away.
ReplyDeleteAnother synth that could have a Nord MicroModular stuck in it.
ReplyDelete> Hard to believe nobody wanted to pay $2,000
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean 5?
reason # 237 why I don't buy anything new anymore
ReplyDeletevenetian snares used this synth
ReplyDeleteGreat suggestion Doc Future! Why not Jam three or four Nord Modulars in there? Ha, ha, ha!
ReplyDeleteI think I read that Air used it too.
Exactly how does it using PC based components detract from its usefullness as an instrument? Overpricing is the real problem. If a synth sounds good and is priced right, I don't care if it makes sound by pouring hot oil on stray cats trapped inside of it.
ReplyDelete>Exactly how does it using PC based >components detract from its >usefullness as an instrument?
ReplyDeleteIf I were to spend thousands on a modern hardware synth, than it better have nice expensive DSP chips inside it and lots of RAM and ROM storage. NOT a PC motherboard with hard drive, fans, etc.