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where sources disagree
Documentation for a device that has shipped four significant firmware releases in 15 months will drift. One manual gives one answer. Reading every source shows where that answer isn't stable, so you can judge it yourself. Each one stays listed until a source settles it.
5 open questions
How many buttons are on the top panel
low impact- Manual prose
Three top-panel buttons
- The same manual's control descriptions
Documents five distinct buttons: BANK, FX, EXIT, CAPTURE, SAVE
What we do about it
Settled by the manual's own Hardware Specifications block: “CONTROLS: 2 Stainless Steel Stomp + Rotary Footswitches, 7 Knobs, 2 Analog Switches, 5 Digital Switches.” Five digital switches is exactly BANK, FX, EXIT, CAPTURE and SAVE, so the prose that said three was wrong. The same block says seven knobs, not six: the seventh is the boost control on the right cheek.
How long you hold SAVE to store a preset
low impact- User manual
“Press-and-hold SAVE for 2 seconds to overwrite the current Preset settings”
- Creating and managing presets guide
“Press and hold the SAVE button for 3 seconds to save your Preset”
- Manual and capture guide
3 seconds, stated consistently for Neural Captures in both
What we do about it
This is nearly settled. The current manual states 2 seconds for a preset in two separate places (under SAVING PRESETS and under Capture Volume & Input Gate) and 3 seconds for a Neural Capture. The two figures belong to two different operations, and the presets guide appears to have carried the capture number across. We publish 2 seconds for presets and 3 for captures. Either way, hold until the indicators stop blinking: the pedal confirms the save itself.
What USB input channel 2 carries
medium impact- The audio interface guide
Input 1 is the dry DI and inputs 3/4 are the processed stereo pair
- Every source we checked
Channel 2 is never described
What we do about it
We document channels 1, 3 and 4 and the reamp send on output 3, and leave channel 2 blank. The channel map is published as an image, and two independent reads of it disagreed.
Whether there's an auxiliary input
low impact- Thomann's specification grid
Aux input: Yes
- Neural DSP's manual, FAQ and connection guide
No aux input is documented anywhere
What we do about it
There is no aux input. This looks like a retailer template error. The only 3.5 mm jack on the device is the headphone output.
Round-trip latency as an audio interface
low impact- Neural DSP
Only ever described as "low-latency"
- One owner's measurement with RTL Utility
9.1 ms at 48 kHz with a 64-sample buffer
What we do about it
Neural DSP publishes no number at all, so we quote the owner's figure and label it as a single community measurement, not a specification.
- measured
- Read off the hardware by us, not taken from a document.
- official
- From the manufacturer's manual, FAQ, guides or release notes.
- retail spec
- From an authorized dealer's published specification.
- review
- Observed and published by a professional reviewer.
- community
- Reported by owners and used to corroborate, not as a primary spec.
- our reading
- Our interpretation, not something the manufacturer states.
- unverified
- We could not confirm this, or sources disagree.