NDSP Quad Cortex

[Elric]

It all boils down to the fact that PCOM never meant "compatibility" in the typical sense of the word. Rather than achieving a state where the QC could run existing plugins, they managed to recreate the content from a couple of plugins for QC. By modifying both the plugins, and the QC firmware. Which means PCOM can waste everyone's time for ever. That's great if you're looking for an alibi for your development team. Less great if you're a customer waiting on some unrelated feature...

Yes, was always a red herring for the QC in terms of development. Was clearly a monumental waste of time and resources in the practical sense even out of the gate to anyone who understood what they were saying… but likely sold a lot of units to folks who were sold on the plugins first and considered them the gold standard. So it likely helped them to be financially successful with the product but the product is actually worse for it in terms of what it can do, etc, IMHO. It’d actually be more capable if those resources had been directed elsewhere instead of that fool’s errand.

Feels almost like they have lost interest in even keeping the show up lately on that front too.

Like you say the idea that what they have done constitutes’compatibility’ is complete nonsense and pretty much an abuse of the term.

 

[deadpool_25]

Yes....and no.

There is a considerable amount of stuff out there in the Cortex Cloud, no doubt. Too much of it is unorganized and one-offs.

The ridiculous lack of a marketplace means a lot of vendors only ever dipped their toes in. Don't get me wrong.....I appreciated the guys that went above and beyond providing free stuff like @Burger of Headfirst Amps. But I had visions of the likes of Live Ready Sound unleashing the full might of their amp/cab collections on QC, and it just never came to fruition due to the dumb implementation that makes it a chore to buy capture packs to this day.

As for buying stuff, I'm certainly not saying you're wrong but this has not been my experience at all.

I've bought some packs from Amalgam, WT, my friend Jon Kaneshiro, and a few others and have been quite pleased both with (most of) the captures/presets themselves and with the ease of obtaining them.

It's not as simple as: add to cart, purchase, download, but it's also not too far from that. Put my cortex cloud name in a text box, go to CC and click add on their account, and wait maybe until maybe the next day is pretty much the extra stuff.

There are absolutely tons of captures out there that aren't gonna work well for me or my setup/rig. But there are also plenty of good to great ones. Can you find a good version of literally any amp? No, I don't think so. But I haven't been totally shut out looking for anything yet. I get how you say it's disorganized and one-offs as there's no standard naming convention or anything but...I search and find what I'm looking for. Is it perfect? No. But I really haven't struggled to find what I'm looking for by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Orvillain]

Let’s hope it leads to more prompt development and firmware updates.

Well you need to ask why they've been losing developers over the years.

Some companies treat developers like interchangeable block of lego, and it really shows in their output.