Hartmann Neuron

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" This RARE 21st-Century keyboard represents a unique approach to sound modeling and reproduction! Like a sentient being, Neuron recognizes a sound. But more than that, its intelligence is such that it puts at your disposal parameters whose structures are adapted DYNAMICALLY to suit this sound. Ant that makes Neuron the first synthesizer with a brain full of responsive synapses, that is, variable rather than fixed parameter assingments. In simpler terms, the keyboard applies pattern recognition based on neural networks to digital sound samples and extracts parameters which can be controlled by the numerous knobs, wheels, and x-y joysticks (whose movements can actually be recorded, similar to the motorized sliders of high-end digital mixers) populating the front panel. The parameters being controlled vary from sound to sound and represent sonic aspects that no other keyboard - or human beings, for that matter - could ever possibly recognize. The Hartmann website permits downloading of ModelMaker software which permits you to create your own samples and import them via USB to the Neuron for subsequent processing. Unlike conventional synths, with their VCOs, VCFs, VCAs, EGs, LFOs, and the like, the Neuron consists of custom exotic modules such as Resynators, a Blender, Shapers, a Programmer, a Mod, a Slicer, a Silver (incuding Surround Sound controls), and Master Effects. Accessories include a fabric dust cover, a damper pedal, a footswitch, an expression pedal, a bag of spare parts, a power cord, a user manual, a Model & Parameterset Info guide, a digital coax output cable, and an SKB hardcase."