Neural DSP
Latest Neural DSP guitar news, new electric and acoustic guitars, signature models, artist collaborations, and releases tracked by Guitar Radar.
Guitar Radar follows Neural DSP through 1 story, covering new gear, launches and company news as they happen. Most of it sits under gear. The most recent story, from Aug 26, 2026, is “Neural DSP's CorOS 4.1.0 brings its X-series plugins, John Mayer included, onto the Quad Cortex”.
About Neural DSP
Neural DSP is a Helsinki-based company founded in 2017 by Douglas Castro and Francisco Cresp, who both came to Finland from Chile as exchange students. Its first plug-in, Darkglass Ultra, came out in April 2018, followed by the Fortin Nameless that September, which became its first major success.
The Archetype series of amp-and-effects plug-ins, each built around a specific guitarist, gave the company its public profile; the line has been co-developed with players such as Tim Henson, Cory Wong and Plini. That profile in turn paid for the company's hardware ambitions: the Quad Cortex floor modeler, shown at NAMM in January 2020 and shipping in 2021, is built around four SHARC+ processors, and a smaller Nano Cortex followed in late 2024.
Neural DSP's model of pairing a named artist with a software rig has made it a regular presence in guitar news. Guitar Radar follows its new Archetype plug-ins, Quad Cortex updates and hardware.
Sources: Wikipedia: Neural DSP · Music Connection: Neural DSP
