NDSP Quad Cortex

[Lysander]

I swear to god, the guy has to browse this place daily for video "inspiration", because i haven't read so much hardware speculation anywhere else

 

[JiveTurkey]

I swear to god, the guy has to browse this place daily for video "inspiration", because i haven't read so much hardware speculation anywhere else

#silentmember

 

[Whizzinby]

Neural will print money with a Dual Cortex. I’d actually give it a long look myself.

I can’t see Neural doing a plugin player over a dual given they haven’t actually ported all the plugs (well it’s Neural, so YOLO) but I think a small plug-in player could actually be cool, especially if you could toggle it from grid to an actual instance of the plug interface. (Or just be the plug interface) The plugs have mojo, their grid feels like a dark abyss in a digital hellscape.

 

[namathan_zirwir]

Neural will print money with a Dual Cortex. I’d actually give it a long look myself.

Absolutely. It would be huge. Now would be the perfect time to release that

 

[GTR37]

Neural will print money with a Dual Cortex. I’d actually give it a long look myself.

I can’t see Neural doing a plugin player over a dual given they haven’t actually ported all the plugs (well it’s Neural, so YOLO) but I think a small plug-in player could actually be cool, especially if you could toggle it from grid to an actual instance of the plug interface. (Or just be the plug interface) The plugs have mojo, their grid feels like a dark abyss in a digital hellscape.

Considering the amount of initial grief they got on the Nano as everyone wanted the Dual and many were disappointed I would say the market basically showed what they wanted so. Really very little risk on their part

 

[[Nathan]]

If it is a dual cortex with half the processing/lanes. If you’re only using one guitar will you generally be fine with one lane? I’m not sure if there’s anything that you’d potentially miss out on.

When I had a fm3 I pretty much only used 4-8 blocks in a preset.

 

[GTR37]

Oh shit not we did this in 2024 and prior to the Nano launch
Anytime now the man in the Hawaiian shirt will be here

 

[Whizzinby]

If it is a dual cortex with half the processing/lanes. If you’re only using one guitar will you generally be fine with one lane? I’m not sure if there’s anything that you’d potentially miss out on.

When I had a fm3 I pretty much only used 4-8 blocks in a preset.

The Dual would still need to be an able to run semi-complex presets, albeit with two lanes vs four. With new chips since the QC launch, they could probably pull off more than 50% of the processing power of the QC, with “Dual” just meaning half the lanes, footswitches, and /IO.

Definitely will be interesting to see what they have cooked up. It’s been a pretty crazy last few months in the digital space. Everybody is firing out new stuff. Pretty cool.

 

[GTR37]

If it is a dual cortex with half the processing/lanes. If you’re only using one guitar will you generally be fine with one lane? I’m not sure if there’s anything that you’d potentially miss out on.

When I had a fm3 I pretty much only used 4-8 blocks in a preset.

Actually you would also cut down the latency going to the second path
I figure on a path split you should be able to fit
Wah drive 2 amps delay verb pitch
Mod

 

[Lysander]

Guys, i'd temper expectations a bit. There's zero indication NDSP is about to launch a new hardware unit.

 

[[Nathan]]

Guys, i'd temper expectations a bit. There's zero indication NDSP is about to launch a new hardware unit.

Except they have 2 booths at NAMM and are releasing teasers.... lol

 

[ian_dissonance]

Guys, i'd temper expectations a bit.There's zero indication NDSP is about to launch a new hardware unit.

I wouldn’t be buying it even it does exist, but it’s fun to guess. Maybe it’s a vocal processor for weak screamers.

 

[Lysander]

Except they have 2 booths at NAMM and are releasing teasers.... lol

...of a twirly white light.

 

[GTR37]

Except they have 2 booths at NAMM and are releasing teasers.... lol

Booth one is just the Giant Soon letters they had to take out of storage

 

[GTR37]

I wouldn’t be buying it even it does exist, but it’s fun to guess. Maybe it’s a vocal processor for weak screamers.

Congrats you and Timbuck have something in common

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

I must admit, it would be funny if it was a vocal processor with pcom for their vocal plugin
qc users would be horrified.

 

[GTR37]

I must admit, it would be funny if it was a vocal processor with pcom for their vocal plugin
qc users would be horrified.

A Voicelive TC thing w Mantra would kind of make sense actually

 

[Lysander]

A Voicelive TC thing w Mantra would kind of make sense actually

For real. I don't recall a whole lot of vocalist-oriented gear being released recently.

 

[[Nathan]]

Booth one is just the Giant Soon letters they had to take out of storage

Don’t think they’ll need that this time