User Guide

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Welcome to the family!
Thank you for purchasing this groundbreaking
electronic musical instrument. To this day, I recall
the thrill that reading words much like these gave me
when I brought my brand-new synthesizer home. I
devoured the pages that followed in that first
manual - it would become my bedside bible for many
days after acquiring that cherished machine. Years
have passed since; as a musician, I owned many
instruments and as a designer, I contributed to the
making of many more. With Neuron, I was able to
make my personal dream come true - an aspiration
that would not have been attainable without the
close cooperation of one of the brightest minds in
the music business. Neuron’s synthesis engine
embraces the imagination and comprehensive
knowledge of Stephan Sprenger, who in March 2000
set out with me on an adventure of designing what
is certainly the most powerful new development in
synthesizers in recent years. Before you stands the
hard-won result of this shared vision. I would like to
take this opportunity to thank everyone who worked
so hard – sometimes to the limits of human
endurance – to blast through barriers and turn this
vision into a product that satisfies your and our
standards for quality.
As you get to know Neuron, you will come across a
range of innovative functions. Many of these are the
fruits of a Herculean development effort, and a
goodly share has been implemented for the first time
in an electronic musical instrument. I am certain
that you will soon come to appreciate the depth and
breadth of neural synthesis; its sonic potential is, in
fact, tremendous. And its unique control features
make it so easy to shape this instrument’s jaw-
dropping sounds.
Here’s hoping that you will become acquainted with
your new instrument in no time at all. This manual
will help you understand this machine. You will find
familiar features in some areas and be confronted
with completely novel features in others. However,
in order to make the most of your synthesizer’s
potential, I recommend that you make this manual
your bedtime storybook in the days ahead just as I
did years ago and still do today.
Thank you for the confidence in our product and in
our new company.
Welcome to the family!
Axel Hartmann
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