The Nano Cortex is Neural Capture in a pedal two standard enclosures wide. It captures your own amp, cab or drive pedal on the unit itself, at the same resolution as the Quad Cortex, with no computer or app involved, and holds up to 256 Captures plus 256 of your own IRs.
It ships with 25 amp Captures and 300 cab IRs (ten cabs, five mics, six positions), and there are 50-plus effects and utilities split into pre and post slots around the Capture. Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble, Amount and Level are real knobs, and the two footswitches turn to scroll through Captures and IRs.
It suits a few players: the one who wants their real amp's sound on a fly date, the pedalboard player after a preamp and cab sim at the end of the chain, and anyone who wants a USB interface and headphone practice rig in one. It runs off a USB battery pack. For scenes, a full effects grid and more switching, step up to the Quad Cortex Mini.
SPECIFICATIONS
PLATFORM
Factory Neural Captures: 25 amps
User Captures: up to 256
Impulse Responses: 10 cabinets, 5 mics, 6 positions per mic, 300 IRs; up to 256 user IRs
Effects: 50+ effects and utilities, pre-effects and post-effects slots
Input Gate: built in, does not use an Effect Slot
Tuner and Transpose: built in
Neural Capture: on-device; Version 2 Player
CONTROLS
Knobs: Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble, Amount, Level, Headphones level
Buttons: Exit, Capture, Save, Capture Banks, Effect Slots
Footswitches I and II: stainless steel, double as rotary knobs (Capture Slots, IR Loader Slots)
Boost switch: +26dB on the Capture input
Ground lift switch
CONNECTIONS
Input: 1/4" instrument input
Outputs: Dual 1/4" TRS outputs
Capture input: XLR & TS
TRS expression & MIDI input
Headphones: 3.5mm headphone output
USB-C: 24-bit, 48kHz audio interface (4in/3out), USB power
Wireless: Bluetooth
BUILD
Weight: 620g / 1.36lbs
Power: 9-12V DC 600 mA (Center Negative) or USB-C compliant power source
