The Neutron is a dual-oscillator monophonic synthesizer manufactured by Behringer. Released in 2018, the Neutron has an analogue signal path and uses subtractive synthesis to produce sounds. It is semi-modular and compatible with Eurorack voltages.
Release
The Neutron was announced in January 2018 Priced around £300, a relatively low price point for analogue synthesizers, critics highlighted how the Neutron packs in a lot of features for its cost. The Neutron's original design was seen as a surprising due to Behringer's habit of cloning vintage synthesizers. However, criticism was made of the delay circuit, which bled into the signal path when muted. == Design ==
Design
The Neutron was designed in the United Kingdom by engineers at Midas. It has a red faceplate and can be used as a desktop unit or taken out its casing to be used as a Eurorack module. Each oscillator has five blendable waveforms: sine, triangle, sawtooth, square and "tone mod", a waveshaping oscillator. There is oscillator sync, PWM and a noise source. A mix knob blends the mixture of both oscillators. External sounds can be run through the signal chain. The oscillator range can be changed using the "range" button. The full range of the oscillators is +/-10 octaves. The Neutron has a paraphonic mode to assign each oscillator to a separate note. There is "poly-chaining" functionality, letting you link multiple units together to play polyphonically. == Later models ==
Later models
In March 2022, Behringer announced the Proton. Similar to the Neutron, the Proton has the same oscillator section as the Neutron. However, the Proton includes substantially more modules, including two looping ASR envelopes, two LFOs (one more than the Neutron), another filter, a waveshaper and sub-oscillators. The Proton has 64 patch points, eight more than the Neutron. == References ==