NDSP Quad Cortex

[ejecta]

The apology is good enough for me. Mainly because I'm fine with the QC, and I haven't been sitting on their website hitting F5 and praying for a CorOS update. I've been playing guitar, and using the QC, and it's been great. Looking forward to Rabea compatibility. I'll survive.

If there were some specific feature whose absence were truly holding me back, and it had been promised and not delivered, then sure, I'd be pissed. But as things stand, it's so much ado about nothing. "Same as it's been for 5 years" cuts both ways: if you still have a QC and you're still pissed about it, by this point it's on you as much as them. (Likewise for "Plugin compatibility is pointless" cutting both ways, except to the extent that it's made them so slow to develop any other features.)

Fun testimonial: last night our drummer stopped by for what I call a "tech night" - setting up sound treatment and reinforcement, etc. The kind of stuff you don't want to get into during rehearsal. He wanted a monitor on his end of the room so he could get more of my vocals and guitar, but I wasn't crazy about the idea of running XLR cables all over the room. So I pulled up the preset I've been using for this project - 4cm on lane 1, vocals on lane 3 - and I pulled a couple of additional outputs, doubling guitar on lane 2 and adding a cab sim, and doubling vox on lane 4. Assigned those to a spare output and send block respectively, stuck a couple of guitar wireless transmitters in the back, stuck a couple of receivers in his mixer... voila. A whole extra mix in about 5 minutes, no extra hardware.

Yeah I totally get people’s frustration and I’m not happy with them making promises they can’t seem to keep. Nothing new there really though. I’ve seen it happen to other gear manufacturers. Anyway I like the way the capture I use sounds and the unit’s functionality over any other digital device I’ve used to date so for now it’s my gear of choice to gig direct.

 

[banned]

Well, not keeping promises is affecting them either way according to this -

https://www.finder.fi/IT-konsultointi+IT-palvelut/Neural+Dsp+Technologies+Oy/Helsinki/yhteystiedot/3221340

 

[Mongillo19]

Well, not keeping promises is affecting them either way according to this -

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https://www.finder.fi/IT-konsultointi+IT-palvelut/Neural+Dsp+Technologies+Oy/Helsinki/yhteystiedot/3221340

Question is if most of their earnings are through hardware or plugins. I have to guess plugins and they haven't released a new one in quite some time. Also, unless it's something unique, once they saturated their plugin market the sales aren't going to equal the early days of Nameless, Cali, NTS, Plini etc if I had to take a guess

 

[paisleywookiee]

Personally, I think this is extends to QC too. Yes, Neural has an embarrassing tendency to overpromise, and that doesn't look to be changing any time soon. But the QC itself, now, delivers great functionality out of the box. There are a whole lot of people spending a whole lot of money for these things and not sending them back - which is entirely their prerogative. QC can't be sucking that hard.

Points taken re: those who got burned at launch. On the flipside, I'm guessing those people recouped their money a long ways back. I've bought a lot of products from a lot of companies over the years that fell short of their promises, and in most cases that money just vaporized.

For me, there's a separating line though, in terms of money. For $550, for what the NC does now, AND as an ancillary purse rig, I'm fine with it. If it were to be a primary device for me, I'm less forgiving.

 

[mbenigni]

For me, there's a separating line though, in terms of money. For $550, for what the NC does now, AND as an ancillary purse rig, I'm fine with it. If it were to be a primary device for me, I'm less forgiving.

But that's been the most surreal part of being "the only guy in the world who likes the QC" (as it can sometimes feel in this particular forum LOL.) I consider myself a pretty tough customer. Like, a genuine pain in the ass. I have a long history of tearing products (even popular ones) apart over some tiny thing that bugs me. And yet somehow, I love BOTH my QC's. Go figure.

 

[paisleywookiee]

But that's been the most surreal part of being "the only guy in the world who likes the QC" (as it can sometimes feel in this particular forum LOL.) I consider myself a pretty tough customer. Like, a genuine pain in the ass. I have a long history of tearing products (even popular ones) apart over some tiny thing that bugs me. And yet somehow, I love BOTH my QC's. Go figure.

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I like the QC too, the times I’ve played it. Captures are definitely better than the Kemper, effects are nice, usability is fantastic.

 

[Mikael Dez]

But that's been the most surreal part of being "the only guy in the world who likes the QC" (as it can sometimes feel in this particular forum LOL.) I consider myself a pretty tough customer. Like, a genuine pain in the ass. I have a long history of tearing products (even popular ones) apart over some tiny thing that bugs me. And yet somehow, I love BOTH my QC's. Go figure.

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I loved my QC as well! I miss the chorus engine on that thing.