NDSP (finally) announces plugin support for the Quad Cortex

[Lysander]

See https://neuraldsp.com/quad-cortex-u...quad-cortex-development-update-september-2023 for more details.

 

[Mongillo19]

Lots of good stuff there imo. Some big updates with the editor and plugin integration on the horizon.

In before "the ported plugin sounds different than the OG"

 

[Whizzinby]

1. Pumped that the first one to be released is one I already own! LFG
2. Tempered enthusiasm because it’s still requiring a plug-in update “in a few weeks”, followed by a CorOs update “in the future”.
3. The batches every few months means this likely takes another 6-9 months (if not more) for them to catch up to every plug. Sweet Baby Jeebus I pray to thee that the the SLO and Cali plugs will be in the early batches.
4. Everything before Petrucci is a complete ground up rebuild according to them, which further drives home the point they were being slimy pieces of shit at launch selling the feature as “shortly after launch”.

 

[fretworn]

 

[Lysander]

Yeah, temper your expectations. This "announcement" is chock-full of typical NDSP vague timelines.

But, it is an announcement. Baby steps!

 

[JiveTurkey]

When did the QC actually come out? 2020? 2019? I can't remember because COVID timeline memory brain

 

[Lysander]

When did the QC actually come out? 2020? 2019? I can't remember because COVID timeline memory brain

Nov 2020, if i recall correctly. Over/under of them shipping a desktop editor before the 3 year anniversary?!

 

[Jarick]

Why have native support for Plini when you can just capture a profile of the model?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Why have native support for Plini when you can just capture a profile of the model?

 

[mikah912]

Nov 2020, if i recall correctly. Over/under of them shipping a desktop editor before the 3 year anniversary?!

Sadly, no. Spring of 2021.

 

[laxu]

I don't quite understand why they have to improve the architecture of the existing plugins on computer when it seems they are still having to port them to run on the QC.

 

[Whizzinby]

Yeah, temper your expectations. This "announcement" is chock-full of typical NDSP vague timelines.

But, it is an announcement. Baby steps!

If you run the announcement through the Neural Decoder Ring it means:

S O O N

 

[sleewell]

fantastic

they must have added another dev to the case, bet they got them working in shifts now!!

 

[TubeStack]

Tempered enthusiasm because it’s still requiring a plug-in update “in a few weeks”, followed by a CorOs update “in the future”.

Exactly. I can't believe it's still just another announcement about an upcoming announcement. Yet I can believe it, at the same time, as it's just how they roll.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

fantastic

they must have added another dev to the case, bet they got them working in shifts now!!

 

[mikah912]

1. The batches every few months means this likely takes another 6-9 months (if not more) for them to catch up to every plug. Sweet Baby Jeebus I pray to thee that the the SLO and Cali plugs will be in the early batches.

Boy, you're being generous on the timing. Do you really see a relatively smooth rollout if they're making the QC-compatible versions of these plugins before (!) the firmware that can run them is finalized?

 

[Elric]

Sadly, no. Spring of 2021.

This... I got mine in March 2021 (towards end of the month).

 

[Whizzinby]

I don't quite understand why they have to improve the architecture of the existing plugins on computer when it seems they are still having to port them to run on the QC.

Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if they had to remodel everything from the plugs (amps, pedals etc) using the processes they now use for QC models.

 

[laxu]

Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if they had to remodel everything from the plugs (amps, pedals etc) using the processes they now use for QC models.

Then it seems silly to start from those older plugins, if plugins from Petrucci onward are on a newer architecture that is potentially more compatible.

 

[Whizzinby]

Boy, you're being generous on the timing. Do you really see a relatively smooth rollout if they're making the QC-compatible versions of these plugins before (!) the firmware that can run them is finalized?

Reading between the lines it looks like the Plini update will come in October and then the next 0.X CorOs update will actually add compatibility. (And they said they will have a couple more compatible by then) So I’d guess EOY for the first batch, and then the better part of 2024 for the remaining waves to catch up to all the plugs.