Hartmann Neuron

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I believe the gents in the video said it was running Linux. The control
surface would be the only real innovation (kind of). I've seen the insides
of my Alesis Andromeda, Moog Voyager,  etc.. and seeing the custom chips and
hardware is wonderful and inspiring maybe it's because I don't understand
enough of what it all does. I've seen thousands of PCs and they are all the
same. I'm not saying I don't enjoy computers but the Neuron just does not
seem like an instrument to me any more.

Larry

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:24 AM, 1101110110010010100111001
> <numode at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I played with it a couple times and both times it did not sound like
> > anything I couldn't create using software instruments. It had cool
> morphing
> > features but I could never justify buying it for that price. I expected
> it
> > to have some innovative technology under the hood but alas, the curtain
> has
> > been drawn and the wizard is just a gray box in disguise.
>
> The innovation would have been in the software and control surface,
> not in the CPU it used.  I dont really see how that matters.  If you
> open anything these days your just going to find, essentially, a very
> large cell phone or calculator.
>
> So, of course you could recreate it with software....thats all
> anything really is.  The issue is does the hardware give you a
> compelling user experience for the price.  In the case of the Neuron,
> it sounds like it doesnt.
>
> Tony
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