NEUTRON : Good but with limitations

6 years ago

Good synth with tones of features for the price.

My thoughts on the synth:

- Sound & synthesis. I love it! The oscillators sound great! It worths its money just for the sound! There are so many possibilities!

- The filter sounds great also a bit "blurry" or "muddy" maybe making the synth hard to stand out in a mix. Also, the resonance sounds different from what you 'd expect I think. It has it's own character and personally I love and hate it at the same time.

- The existence of the overdrive unit is really great.

- I love the S&H unit.

- The envelopes are very snappy which is awesome for a certain range of sounds but at the same time, the release and decay times are veeeeery short. They go about 3 seconds max which is unacceptably short if you ask me. It'd be great if there was a switch to make decay/release less snappy but longer if required.

- There's an assignable patch output that can improve your workflow a lot!

- The lack of a fine-tune knob is puzzling.

- The knobs are in general very tight. It takes too much effort to turn them around.

- I wish there was a physical switch to choose the octave range. These digi-buttons don't allow real-time octave switching.

- Not a fan of the analog delay. Not much of use to it if it's mono. That space could have been used for something better I think.

- I feel like there's a need for at least one more attenuator module and at least one more multiplier module. The possibilities would be so much higher with those additions.

Certainly worths its money but I wouldn't use it as my main mono synth. I'd say it's a great companion for model D.

Image Behringer NEUTRON

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Behringer
  • Released in 2018
  • Average price : $340
  • Weight : 2.0kg
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