BAD DOG! How dare you make jokes?! YOU IDIIIOOOTTTTT!!!!!
Everyone who knows me knows that I am deadly serious at all times, so watch out.
There's a difference between being inspired by something else on the market, and outright lifting. Neural aren't quite as bad as Behringer, but they've definitely straight up lifted parts of their design from Helix, and one of the core features - and for a LOT of people, the only reason they bought a QC - is extremely inspired by the Kemper.
Shrug. I agree they lifted the Helix UI and adapted it to a touch screen. It's be silly to argue against that.
But there are a lot of things where standardizing on an interactive model is actually helpful to the consumer. It may not be original, but why does it need to be? Is there some better thing they should have done? Since when is being completely different from everything else always good or necessary? Product groups converge on practices, form factors, etc, due to user demand/preference.
And having a another device that can do captures is also to everyone's benefit. Now we have ToneX too which is great. But giving us an alternative for captures is hardly a bad thing.
Being someone who has worked in music tech for the last 18 years of my life, and has had a hand in designing quite a few software products and now also hardware products,
That's fine, trust your experience; makes sense. I have been in the tech world for over 30 years and seen and participated in several technology markets blossom, plateau, and finally even fall away and give over to another. So yeah, I get tech stuff too.
And my point is that product classes mature and stop leap frogging each other, and enter a refinement phase. Anyone who expects the next hot smartphone to be *wildly* different than the others is in for disappointement and those developers hardly deserve to be thrown shade for being 'unoriginal' or 'lifting' things.
IMHO modelers are there, too. So taking one in particular to task like its some kind of cardinal sin to take the best of what they've seen to date and combine it into a product they feel has the best of current tech as some kind of problem strikes me as unnecessarily antagonistic from that perspective.
FWIW, I think you could easily argue that Neural really did a great job on industrial design, UI, and form factor for some segment of the market. But that is heresy here because everyone is still p*ssed about all the prelaunch hype and shady stuff the company has done. So, we cannot even spot them the things they have done well. I would expect someone who had some professionally relevant perspective to be able to recognize more pros and cons.
I'll take my experience over your teledildonic enthusiam.
LOL. Think what you want. Anyone who has interacted with me here or TGP and read the posts likely knows you are full of it on that point... I am hardly unrealistic about the QC. IMHO, Me,
@laxu @mikah912 and
@mbenigni were about the only people on TGP who could talk about the trade offs in a realistic way...
My 'teledildonic enthusiasm' for the device right now, is "you know it is a great alternative to a Kemper at this point, but take anything the company says with a grain of salt". My Axe 3 is still my #1 digital device.
That's why I find all the stuff here a little goofy and cliquey wrt the topic of the QC... where anything negative about this product that is actually quite solid at this point is immediately amplified and reiterated without any kind of justification, and any attempt to even say something slightly complimentary... like "you know at this point the FX, even if not mind blowing, are solid and fairly complete" is controversial and feels like it needs to be qualified to death to avoid death by a thousand memes.
