NDSP Quad Cortex

Whizzinby said:
They asked me to make a draft for the revised manual post 3.0.

99% legit.
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Not sure whether I should be embarrassed, or whether NDSP should be embarrassed, that I took that for a real quote. :D

I mean, it does a pretty fair job of describing their "plan".
 
mbenigni said:
Not sure whether I should be embarrassed, or whether NDSP should be embarrassed, that I took that for a real quote. :D

I mean, it does a pretty fair job of describing their "plan".
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Yeah, I thought it would be obvious but the fact that it wasn’t is kind of hilarious. :ROFLMAO:

mbenigni said:
This is what I've been on (and on, and on, and on) about from the beginning. NDSP's approach was never going to result in "QC Plugin Compatibility" per se, but merely "QC-Compatible Plugin Compatibility". Which will always be a work in progress.
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Best case scenario they draw a line in the sand and only release QC compatible plugins moving forward. That at least contains the amount of outstanding plugins not yet ported, and they just bake in the “compatibility” work behind the scenes before release. Otherwise the outstanding plugins list will be slog to work down, or even worst case grow at certain times.

But I can’t imagine the fiscal incentive to have these QC compatible at release will be ignored once capable. You’ll have QC users as “excited” as normal plug-in users, knowing they are one click (purchase) away from new content.
 
mbenigni said:
But personally, I'd rather see all the amps where amps go, all the distortions where distortions go, all the reverbs where reverbs go, etc. (Call me crazy...)
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Not crazy. It’s the only way that makes sense.

After you go out and buy all 20+ plugins :ROFLMAO: you aren’t going to want to have 20+ sub menus for each plugs content, which will then have its own sub-tree of amp/cab/delay/reverb selections. You’ll want to hit download once and then have those blocks available in the standard amp/cab/effects block selections.
 
AFKAEjay said:
Thnx I’m gonna check those…deep enough for QC + Plugs sticking out of the back? (#thatswheretroublestartsifnot)…do they ship m with softcase?
Probably gonna check Rockboard first…cause I got a “MOD” handling power / patchbay.
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Yes, the Gator ships with a nicely padded softcase, and the whole deal is only about $100 if you shop around.

The dongle sticking out the back is definitely a pain point as a permanent fixture on a live rig. I would use a short right angle MIDI connector and mount the dongle under the board - far left or far right to be sure the QC or the pedalboard itself isn't shielding and preventing communication.
 
AFKAEjay said:
Either one of these as long as QC does not allow virtual exp pedals driven by midi CC.
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Not exactly clear as to how this question relates to your board layouts, but FWIW, QC does allow virtual expression pedals via MIDI CC. CC#1 = Expression Pedal 1, CC#2 = Expression Pedal 2.

AFKAEjay said:
As soon as / if, QC allows a 3rd expression pedal I wanna go for this, with on of the options at the side as satellite boards sending midi wireless.
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This on the other hand... I'd be amazed if it ever happened.
 
Been wanting to get a nice expression pedal for my QC for a while. But then I plugged in the cheap M Audio I have and it works flawlessly. The calibration was dead simple and setup is super straightforward. Ended up ordering a second one so I can fuss around with assigning to different parameters.
 
Jarick said:
Been wanting to get a nice expression pedal for my QC for a while. But then I plugged in the cheap M Audio I have and it works flawlessly. The calibration was dead simple and setup is super straightforward. Ended up ordering a second one so I can fuss around with assigning to different parameters.
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The QC is the best expressional pedal host I’ve owned, in terms of auto-configuring for different polarities, etc.
 
mbenigni said:
The QC is the best expressional pedal host I’ve owned, in terms of auto-configuring for different polarities, etc.
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breaking you got me GIF
 
mbenigni said:
The QC is the best expressional pedal host I’ve owned, in terms of auto-configuring for different polarities, etc.
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Yeah I was shocked how it worked with one button setup. Fractal was a lot more of a pain in terms of setting up the curves and min/max values and everything. I don't do much expression pedal stuff but I really need to do more!
 
Jarick said:
Yeah I was shocked how it worked with one button setup. Fractal was a lot more of a pain in terms of setting up the curves and min/max values and everything. I don't do much expression pedal stuff but I really need to do more!
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Well, there is a flipside, in that I do wish the QC had a couple more parameters - specifically to control curvatures. Everything linear doesn't always cut it where volume and pan are concerned.

But yeah, I've got a couple of expression pedals that won't work with half my gear, due to reverse polarity. The QC seems to auto-detect and do fine regardless.
 
mbenigni said:
Well, there is a flipside, in that I do wish the QC had a couple more parameters - specifically to control curvatures. Everything linear doesn't always cut it where volume and pan are concerned.

But yeah, I've got a couple of expression pedals that won't work with half my gear, due to reverse polarity. The QC seems to auto-detect and do fine regardless.
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True, best of both worlds would likely be intelligent setup and then advanced settings. Actually that could broadly apply to most Fractal things :)
 
Well it looks like they are getting closer
Nameless and Soldano X are out now and they are starting beta on plug in comp in May
But this one confuses me 🤔
So basically when they release the PCOM update in June you will have
Plug in compatibility but not for all compatible plug in that are available

CorOS 3.0.0 will include plugin compatibility for Archetype: Plini X and Archetype: Gojira X - the first two plugins to receive the ‘X’ updates. Compatibility for the more recent X updates will be added in future versions of CorOS.
 
I love how when they said “port plugins to QC” they’ve actually done the opposite and re-written the plugins. Not that I give a shit either way, but at least so far the plugins don’t seem to have suffered, they’ve actually improved in basically every way as a result.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
I love how when they said “port plugins to QC” they’ve actually done the opposite and re-written the plugins. Not that I give a shit either way, but at least so far the plugins don’t seem to have suffered, they’ve actually improved in basically every way as a result.
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Isn’t that basically what “porting” is? ie rewriting software for another platform.

Like a developer ‘porting’ an Android app to iPhone for example
 
GTR37 said:
CorOS 3.0.0 will include plugin compatibility for Archetype: Plini X and Archetype: Gojira X - the first two plugins to receive the ‘X’ updates. Compatibility for the more recent X updates will be added in future versions of CorOS.
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What a clown show. Not only are they rewriting plugins one at a time to work on QC, but they'll have to keep updating the firmware to accommodate each batch?! So "PCOM" is only works for the X versions that exist at the time, and they essentially have to recode twice for every plugin.

Well, at the current rate, they'll finish with the existing allotment of plugins sometime in late 2025. I would say there are hopes for them to get back to QC-specific content at that point, but we know new plugins will drop in the interim, so the whole cycle starts again.
 
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