The NDSP Nano Cortex…

[JCW308]

Anyone know....with the latest update, if you keep the signal chain the same on say four presets in a bank, will there still be gaps when switching presets? Kemper Player has no gaps anywhere no matter what I did. I'm hoping similar signal chains will make the Nano be gapless.

 

[Sedaxel]

Yesterday I received an e-mail from NDSP. It was a survey for the research team, asking for desired features and suggestions to improve the unit. They asked about MIDI, effects, accesories, etc. And there was also some fields to write what you want with a little more detail. They also offered me to enter some kind of users research team (don´t remember how they called it).

It´s the first time that I receive such a detailed attention on a unit. I had a lot of units from several brands (Boss, Zoom, Atomic, Line6, Fender...), and this is the best experience so far. Line6 was great in the helix ideascale, they listened to users and always added features that people wanted. But this Nano Cortex guys are delivering too, and the survey is a great thing if they actually use it to improve.

 

[jellodog]

Yesterday I received an e-mail from NDSP. It was a survey for the research team, asking for desired features and suggestions to improve the unit. They askid about MIDI, effects, accesories, etc. [...]

We've theorised here before that there may be a separate team for the Nano Cortex, and this news makes me think that it might be true because it does seem like markedly different behaviour to what we've experienced for the rest of the NDSP products.

 

[GTR37]

Yesterday I received an e-mail from NDSP. It was a survey for the research team, asking for desired features and suggestions to improve the unit. They asked about MIDI, effects, accesories, etc. And there was also some fields to write what you want with a little more detail. They also offered me to enter some kind of users research team (don´t remember how they called it).

It´s the first time that I receive such a detailed attention on a unit. I had a lot of units from several brands (Boss, Zoom, Atomic, Line6, Fender...), and this is the best experience so far. Line6 was great in the helix ideascale, they listened to users and always added features that people wanted. But this Nano Cortex guys are delivering too, and the survey is a great thing if they actually use it to improve.

Honestly that product is actually pretty solid i can only think of 3 additions
Allow mod fx pre and post
Add plate spring verbs
Fix the gapless switching

Really beyond that I think it is pretty dam full featured for the $$$

 

[Sedaxel]

Honestly that product is actually pretty solid i can only think of 3 additions
Allow mod fx pre and post
Add plate spring verbs
Fix the gapless switching

Really beyond that I think it is pretty dam full featured for the $$$

Yeah, I agree.

I´d also add some more things:

- More MIDI capabilities (another expression CC message, to use a couple expression pedals connected through a MIDI controller).

- Global volume, controllable through exp/MIDI.

- A second capture slot, to add pedals or compressors captures along with the amp one.

- Allow cyclyng 4 presets with the capure selection button (instead of captures, which isn´t too useful anyway), so you could use the footswitches in different combinations of 4 presets, without a MIDI controller.

- Some more effects (not many, maybe several which are not present, like a harmonizer or something like that).

- The USB MIDI doesn´t work with some host midi controllers (such as the Luminite). This is not exactly an issue from the Nano, but from Luminite, though.

- Dual mono outputs. Currently you can have stereo, dual mono if one output has IR bypassed, or mono if there´s just one output connected. But if you want both outputs to send the same mono signal with IR, you can´t. That´d be useful if you want to send one output to PA, and the other output to your own FRFR monitor. Currently you could only do that with a DI box (using the link port) or a splitter. Not a big problem, but you know... it´s very easy to fix it (they added the mono autosum when only one port is connected in the last firmware).

But now, as is, the unit is very capable. And most important... it sounds stellar.

 

[Sedaxel]

Had a great gig last friday. Aprox 600 audience with our 6-band.

Lead guitar through a QC, rhythm guitar (me) through the Nano. Great PA and stage wedges (Meyer and L-Acoustics). Everything sounded faaaantaaaastiiic...

Not saying it wouldn´t have sounded so good with almost any other unit (I´m sure it would, given the great PA and soundtech guys). But hey, I just wanted to chime in to say (again) how happy I am with the little Nano.

Well, actually, my acoustic went through a Fishman instead of the Nano. It was great too.

 

[laxu]

As a non-owner, when the NC was released I immediately saw what I thought was a solid idea for effects control:

Just assign each effects type to one of the knobs and have an "fx mode" where you can adjust the level or mix of each effects category in use with one of the knobs. The "cycle through each one by one mapping its mix to Amount" is just really stupid behavior.

 

[nicolasrivera]

Just saying hello as a new Neural Nano customer!

This thing is insane!!!

 

[JCW308]

Once they fix the gapless, I'm in for sure x2 units.

 

[noizmsm]

Yesterday I received an e-mail from NDSP. It was a survey for the research team, asking for desired features and suggestions to improve the unit. They asked about MIDI, effects, accesories, etc. And there was also some fields to write what you want with a little more detail. They also offered me to enter some kind of users research team (don´t remember how they called it).

It´s the first time that I receive such a detailed attention on a unit. I had a lot of units from several brands (Boss, Zoom, Atomic, Line6, Fender...), and this is the best experience so far. Line6 was great in the helix ideascale, they listened to users and always added features that people wanted. But this Nano Cortex guys are delivering too, and the survey is a great thing if they actually use it to improve.

please ask them Soldano amps for nano cortex users and desktop editor :)

 

[dws2384]

Allow cyclyng 4 presets with the capure selection button (instead of captures, which isn´t too useful anyway), so you could use the footswitches in different combinations of 4 presets, without a MIDI controller.

This is why I sold mine and will repurchase if they change it. I actually thought that’s how it operated when I bought it. If I could have 4-5 banks of 4 presets it would cover almost anything I could want for a grab and go device like this. I got sick of pulling out the phone and always moving presets to/from the foot switches. I’ll never add a midi controller either.

 

[Desertdweller]

I'm having a weird issue with loading impulse responses into my Nano just this week. I've loaded 11 IRs before, and today I loaded an additional 2 into the Cortex Cloud app through my PC browser. Cortex Cloud on my PC is showing 13 IRs, but the phone app is only showing 11 IRs. I can't get the other 2 to show in the Library and I have no idea why. They're the same 48KHz format as the others that loaded just fine.

 

[JCW308]

Anyone find a way to fake out the Nano to think there's a volume (expression pedal) AFTER the amp but before the post effects?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Anyone find a way to fake out the Nano to think there's a volume (expression pedal) AFTER the amp but before the post effects?

I'm not familiar with the thing at all, but how could this *not* be the standard placement? That's quite a fail.

 

[Desertdweller]

Anyone find a way to fake out the Nano to think there's a volume (expression pedal) AFTER the amp but before the post effects?

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe assign the expression pedal to the amp level?

 

[Sedaxel]

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe assign the expression pedal to the amp level?

I assign the cc1 to an EQ block. It controls the level of the EQ. In the app, you can tell the Nano the range of the cc1 from the expression pedal, per preset.

It's a workaround... I don't like to do it this way, but it works.

I didn't try to assign the capture level instead. I don't remember wether it's because it's not possible or I just didn't realize it could be done.

 

[JCW308]

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe assign the expression pedal to the amp level?

Tried that, it's not as smooth as using a volume block in front. I did hear back from NDSP's support and they said this about using an EQ block, although I don't get what they mean about the output parameter being boosted...

"You can control the Capture Volume or the Amount of Post FX slot 1 with an expression pedal. If the Capture Volume parameter is not an option, you could insert an EQ device in Post FX slot 1 with a boosted Output parameter, which then the Amount of that EQ block can be controlled by an expression pedal."

 

[Sedaxel]

I guess that "eq thing" is what I'm doing.

 

[Sedaxel]

Anyhow... They have to polish this. There is a feature request in the discord asking for global volume through expression pedal, and they've been responsive to those requests. I think they'll end up adding it.