The Quad Cortex is an ultra powerful, action-packed floor guitar amp and effects modeller from tone masters Neural DSP. This is the company’s first entry into guitar hardware, with their previous successes in virtual amp software such as the Archetype: Nolly, Omega Ampworks and Fortin Nameless Suite.
Their latest creation captures high-end guitar tones in a portable, seamlessly intuitive bit of kit. The Quad Cortex is capable of hosting hundreds of amps and effects without breaking a sweat. This is all down to the impressive 2GHz Quad-Core SHARC architecture, which is undoubtedly the future of amp modelling technology.
Features
Multi-touch guitar and bass modeler with capture technology
Bright 7-inch multi-touch color display
Quad-Core SHARC DSP delivers a whopping amount of processing power
Preloaded with over 50 amps, 70 effects, and 1,000 cabs
Built-in looper with up to 4 minutes and 44 seconds of record time
Neural Capture digitizes your favorite amps, stomps, and cabs down to the component level
Bulletproof anodized aluminum chassis with 1.8mm glass display shield
Ultra-versatile I/O with patch-by-patch configurable routing
Audio and MIDI over USB with multiple audio playback modes
Dual-function rotary switches supply footswitch and knob control
Onboard Wi-Fi for wireless tone access, firmware updates, and cloud backups
Vulgar Display of Power
Quad Cortex is the most powerful floor modeler on the planet. With a total of 6 cores (4x SHARC+ and 2x ARM Cortex-A5 running at 500MHz each), this ludicrous amount of processing capacity provides limitless sound design possibilities.
Want to run four amplifier models, stereo reverbs, and a plethora of other effects simultaneously? Quad Cortex won’t even break a sweat.
Neural Capture
Capture, share and download your favorite rigs’ sounds. Equipped with our unique biomimetic AI technology, Quad Cortex can learn and replicate the sonic characteristics of any physical amplifier, overdrive, and cabinet with unprecedented accuracy.
Unlike any other, our sophisticated neural network algorithm perceives sound akin to human perception, making it the most natural-sounding capture solution on the planet.
We are collaborating with some of the best producers and sound designers to provide an ever-growing collection of free rig captures in addition to our full-circuit models.
We figured out a better way to do modelers
With its massive 7” multi-touch display, Quad Cortex is unbelievably easy to use. Effortlessly create even the most complex signal paths.
An ever-expanding collection of guitar and bass algorithms
50+ Amps
50+ Effects
50+ IRs
Cab block
With over 1000 perfectly captured impulse responses , Quad Cortex ships with one of the most extensive IR collections on the planet – and it is the only of its kind equipped with virtual microphone that can be positioned around the speaker like in a real studio. Third-party IRs are extremely easy to load.
Powerful parametric EQ
Absolute control at your fingertips. Taking full advantage of the 7” multi-touch display, our parametric EQ is intuitive and fun to use.
Drag & Drop
Drag-and-drop blocks to change the order or routing in seconds.
Input & Outputs
Visualize and control the settings of inputs and outputs with one swipe.
Preset Mode
Instant access to 8 virtual rigs.
Components
Quad Cortex comes in a gorgeous anodized aluminum unibody, with laser engraved graphics that never fade. Our multi-touch display is armored with a 1.8mm chemically strengthened Corning® protective glass.
7” display with multi-touch sensors
An ever-growing collection of hyper-realistic virtual devices
4x SHARC+ and 2x ARM Cortex-A5 running at 500MHz each
WiFi module for wireless preset sharing, cloud backups, over-the-air firmware updates, and more!
Anodized aluminum unibody
Use Quad Cortex as a high-fidelity interface, with Cirrus Logic codecs and an ultra-low-latency USB audio transmission.
Unbelievably Compact
Using advanced mechanical design and manufacturing techniques, we managed to not only build the most powerful floor modeler/multi-effects processor on the planet, we also managed to pack it all in an extremely compact format.
Cortex Cloud
Discover Users, Presets, and Neural Captures via the Cortex Mobile app for iOS and Android devices. Linking your Neural DSP account to your Quad Cortex allows you to create backups, share content, and download items from other users. It also unlocks the Impulse Response Library, where you can transfer IRs to your Quad Cortex and manage the IRs stored on your account.
Specification
Multi-Effect Pedal for Electric Guitar & Electric Bass
Powerful and compact effect unit with 2 GHz dedicated DSP from the Quad-Core SHARC architecture
Unique neural capture network architecture enables the analysis and simulation of the dynamics and sound of other amplifiers
Integrated Wifi for sharing rig capture presets, backups and firmware updates
The integrated Superior Modeling Technology enables a constantly growing collection of algorithms with uncompromising sound quality
With custom rig captures from some of the best producers and sound designers
Very low latency and unparalleled routing flexibility
7″ Multi-touch display
Cabsim with over 1000 impulse responses
11 Newly developed combination foot switches with rotary control function
Volume controls
Power supply connection: barrel connector 5.5 x 2.1 mm, negative polarity inside