Inside Neiro’s Sampling Process

Real Hardware Playback for Modern Producers

Often, analog-instrument plugins you see online are emulations – digital recreations of classic hardware built for convenience in modern music production. They model the sound of analog gear in software, processing everything as numbers inside your computer.

Neiro plugins work differently. While the plugin gives you a familiar and responsive instrument to play, the sound itself is ultimately created by real analog synthesizers. Your performance is sent as MIDI over the internet to physical hardware, played on the actual instrument, and recorded back in real time. No simulated circuits, just real voltage, real components, and real sound, delivered remotely - giving each recording its own unique character, and the unmistakable analog tone people pay thousands for.

Two years ago, we realized that there was a middle ground between expensive analog gear and affordable, but never 100% faithful, soft synthesizers. And this is what we’ve been working on since.

An Easier Way to Work with Analog Sound

We started Neiro not because we wanted to create a marketable product, but because we felt existing music software couldn’t quite replicate the sound we wanted: the authentic textures of real analog synthesizers, but without the extortionate price tag, the studio space requirements, or maintenance costs involved.

With Neiro, your DAW becomes a direct interface to real analog hardware sitting in our Brooklyn studio; when you load up the NX8, N106, or NVerb 90 plugin, you're opening a virtual gate to the actual physical instruments.

It might seem like a small difference, but in reality, this technology completely revolutionizes the way audio from analog hardware is processed within a digital environment.

Capturing Audio, MIDI, and Parameters

Our high-end DSP emulation gives you complete control over every parameter, note and automation curve.

When you're satisfied with your composition and hit “Render”, your MIDI data and parameter automation get packaged up and sent to our studio, where they're played back on the actual analog synthesizer—an Oberheim OBX8 for the NX8, or a Roland Juno-106 for the N106.

Everything you programmed is then performed on the real hardware: the warmth of the oscillators, the character of the filters, the subtle imperfections that make analog synthesis so unique are recorded at the moment of playback through our professional converters.

Remote Hardware Playback

Once the process is done, the rendered audio is transferred back to your DAW automatically, where you can export it, process it further, or use it as is.

We believe this remote playback system eliminates two main problems: the limited accessibility to analog gear, and the unreliability of digital conversion processes. Neiro Audio gives you access to the real hardware, and the audio you receive is the actual sound coming from it, seconds or minutes after you hit the “Render” button in your DAW.

How Is This Different from Traditional Sampling?

When you use a sampled instrument, you're triggering pre-recorded audio files, which are essentially snapshots of how the instrument sounded at the moment of recording.

With Neiro, nothing is pre-recorded.

Every single render is a new performance on the actual hardware, responding to your MIDI data and parameter settings in real-time and with absolute precision.

This makes a huge difference in terms of realism and creative flexibility. Through our plugins, every characteristic of the analog signal path is captured fresh for your specific performance. The result is sound that breathes, has dimension, and carries the character of real analog synthesis.

Hybrid Technology - Pure Analog Sound

What we've built at Neiro is a hybrid system that takes the best of both worlds: the convenience of digital workflow and the tonal authenticity of analog hardware.

As music production becomes increasingly standardized, having access to the unique tones of real vintage gear is what can make your music stand out, and make it timeless.

Are you ready to give it a try? Head over to Neiro Audio to download our plugins and get 30 mins of rendering time for free!