hartmann neuron ... What does £3,500 buy you ?

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Been busy drooling over the hartmann neuron; not so keen on some of the UI design.. tho in terms of arcitecture its interesting …sort of a VS with extra cleaver functionality:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/hartmannneuron.htm

Sound demos:

http://www.aliens-project.de/t_200302_neuron.html

Now heres the punchline… whats under the lid ?

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/02/inside-hartmann-neuron.html

more inside pics here:

http://www.sequencer.de/syns/hartmann/Neuron.html

EH !

Well i was somwhat supprised to say the least… £3.5k for an Socket A Athlon PC with 256mb of pc133 & a hard drive… erm this deal seems a little steep.. tho it looks like a synthesizer geeks ideal reverse engineering projoect :wink: …anyone fancy butchering its firmware to work in a standard rackmount pc ..or stick a mios interface on it ? :wink: …sure that wouldnt come to £3.5k in parts :wink:

..i would otherwise suggest a more parctical solution of runnning the vst plugin version on a rackmount pc running linux and a vst host ..tho apparently the currrent plugin version has got memory hole issues… (how annoying..)

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memory hole or memory leak problems?

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just played with the vst version …look no hardware ! …heheh

..seems fine & doesnt eat up too much processor given what its doing.

would appear so far that if there where any issues with the vst, they have been resolved (shrug)

Update:

it does indeed seem to crash a little more than i would expect.. (this has been reported on forums)

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ah, now i read that question properly..

memory leak ..as in it eats up memory & then doesnt reallocate it correctly…

Although this might possibly not be the case now; it sure as hell eats memory in general …about 580mb when running..

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; it sure as hell eats memory in general …about 580mb when running..

wow - it’s not shy…

memory leaks just keep eating memory till it’s gone or someone stops it…

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well… its hardly a lightweight application.. does some pretty cleaver stuff …only i wish alex hartmann would pull his perverbial teams thumbss out of their backsides ..and get the vst plugin working flawlessly …then, he may just have an extra legit customer for his software :slight_smile: ..this ‘ressurected reworked’ wavestation business on a resynthesis slant, is rather fun to play with ! :slight_smile:

whats really interesting about this guy, is that he was also responsible for heading up the design on the original waldorf wave, the alesis andromeda & the waldorf q.. which isnt to be sniffed at i guess.

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Yeh clearly the cost is all in the development and not the hardware… But that’s rediculous. Similarly to the neuron, the kawai k5000 was and still is a one-of-a-kind synth, but even that didn’t cost half of this. Sh*t you could get a capybara for that price.

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… what price ever for the Neuron: Hartmann doesn’t exist anymore. - They’re out of money… so, no memory leak fixes for the future.

Greets, Roger

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shame …its rather odd how i found afew places appearing to still sell their products (most not of updated their stocklists !) …and hartmann’s website does not make so much of an admission. Although i had heard something about this…

This technology really needs to be picked up by someone competent like korg & perfected… its allot of fun :slight_smile:

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We wish. A toy like this doesn’t interest the masses who Korg would market to, who would rather use more familiar sounds. It’s a shame that music lacks innovation and individuality these days :frowning: