User Guide

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Quick Start Guide
Exit/panic
If you get lost in a menu, simply press the exit
button located at the bottom right of the main
display. Sound loader will reappear. Pressing and
holding it activates the panic function, which
restarts Neuron. The device reports back with the
most recently selected sound or setup activated.
Effects on/off (silver effects + master effects)
• There are two effect units in Neuron. Located in
the silver module, freq FX and time FX are
available for every sound. They remain assigned
to each sound even in setup mode. You can
switch them on and off separately via the freq
FX and time FX buttons. You can also opt to
switch the entire silver module on and off via
the on/off button.
• Master effects (delay and reverb) are global,
which means they are available once only for
each sound/setup. You can switch them on and
off via the effects on/off button.
For a detailed description of the silver module, see
page 123. For more on master effects, see page 154.
A controller for every season
Neuron’s free controllers are assigned to many of the
preset sounds. These are
• the modulation wheel (control 2),
• the stick controller (pitch bend and control 1)
• and the rotary encoder (control 3).
Something old and something new
You will find that though Neuron features many new
and different things, its structure is largely familiar
and certainly very clear. Filters (though in the
Neuron the silver module does the filtering) and
envelopes (that would be the Shaper) are old
acquaintances, as is the LFO (called "mod" in
Neuronese). However, instead of conventional
oscillators, Neuron features two resynators. One or
two models provide the source material for every
sound. They can be processed in a variety of ways in
the resynators. Sound processing options are so
extensive that you will seldom use the filters and
effects. In fact, many factory sounds do without
filters altogether.
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