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We’re excited to share that Neutone has officially made the leap into hardware.

Yesterday at Audio Developer Conference (ADC) 2025, we unveiled Project LYDIA, a new collaborative project with Roland Future Design Lab.
LYDIA is a DIY AI effects box that can host trainable AI models — a step toward bringing the long-standing DIY spirit of music creation into the age of AI.

This first prototype features a live-performance-optimized version of our real-time timbre-transfer engine Neutone Morpho, capable of transforming incoming sounds (a voice into a violin, a guitar into percussion, and more) in real time.

From the very beginning of the Neutone project, turning our AI engine into a physical instrument has been a dream. We believe that for artists to fully embrace AI — a technology that can easily feel like a black box — it needs to be something you can touch, twist, tinker, and play.

Combined with our custom model training service, LYDIA marks an important step toward a future where artists can build their own deeply personal, wonderfully “misusable” AI instruments.

A huge thank you to the team at Roland Future Design Lab and to everyone on the Neutone team who made this possible!!!