NDSP Quad Cortex

[mikah912]

In all seriousness.....I get it as a marketer.

They're paying those people to keep interest and engagement up, and when the release pipeline is all gummy and non-functional....gotta play the hits.

But if you don't have much to talk about, it's better to pause your email channel for a bit instead of making it something customers get in the habit of ignoring, blocking or making fun of.

 

[Jynx]

Hmmm...

Quad Cortex Development Update #57

An update on the status of CorOS 3.1.1

neuraldsp.com

 

[molul]

Hmmm...

Quad Cortex Development Update #57

An update on the status of CorOS 3.1.1

neuraldsp.com

Well, that's nice of them.

 

[eggpl@nt]

What a pointless and useless update lol

“The exact thing we’ve been doing for the past five years is unacceptable.”

 

[2dor]

Hmmm...

Quad Cortex Development Update #57

An update on the status of CorOS 3.1.1

neuraldsp.com

Water under the bridge by now. Too bad - their plugins are still good though.

 

[fiftyshadesofslay]

So the development updates which they started doing because they’re so shit at communication and software updates are now just being used to apologise for being shit at communication and software updates?

Nice

 

[LCW]

Shame it took constant complaint threads for them to speak up finally.

 

[Jarick]

Shame it took constant complaint threads for them to speak up finally.

Double shame they didn’t actually say anything.

 

[2dor]

So the development updates which they started doing because they’re so shit at communication and software updates are now just being used to apologise for being shit at communication and software updates?

Nice

Yeah it's literally painful to watch this stuff unfold. I hope they manage to cross that threshold and get to where their users need them to be.

 

[dws2384]

The decision to have PCOM was a stupid one and should have been walked back and cancelled years ago. They're 5 years into release now and only have 4 out of 20 done (I think) its taken most of their resources and there's really nothing special in the plugins that isn't already in the QC. Maybe the rabea synth. They have a weird lineup now too. You've got the nano that only does captures, the plugins that are their own thing and then the QC trying to do all of the above. No new plugins for a while and no real new features on the QC either. OS2.0 for nano was a pretty good upgrade, I'll give them that.

 

[fiftyshadesofslay]

The decision to have PCOM was a stupid one and should have been walked back and cancelled years ago. They're 5 years into release now and only have 4 out of 20 done (I think) its taken most of their resources and there's really nothing special in the plugins that isn't already in the QC. Maybe the rabea synth. They have a weird lineup now too. You've got the nano that only does captures, the plugins that are their own thing and then the QC trying to do all of the above. No new plugins for a while and no real new features on the QC either. OS2.0 for nano was a pretty good upgrade, I'll give them that.

What they really should have done is checked with their development team if it was actually possible before tossing it out there on a wing and a prayer pre-launch to try and sell more units.

 

[mikah912]

This will all make a fascinating case study someday.

But hey.....could be worse. This could be Tonocracy.

 

[Dez]

 

[Mongillo19]

I bet this means Aaron will unban me from Discord now

 

[jellodog]

Shame it took constant complaint threads for them to speak up finally.

Or maybe they saw their monthly incoming Piles 'O Cash figures start to dip; so they decided to look into why that might be.

 

[molul]

It's a very curious thing. If they had posted that message the moment they saw they wouldn't be able to release the update on time, their public image would have benefited a lot from it. Doing it late, is not worse than saying nothing, but it's not that nice. Feels forced and not honest.

If this was a typical case of marketing team promising something without counting on the devs, oh my, that's bad news.

There isn't always justice in software development (I mean, look at Apple's success having one of the biggest assholes ever as a CEO), but when things like this happens, it feels right.

 

[mbenigni]

What a pointless and useless update lol

“The exact thing we’ve been doing for the past five years is unacceptable.”

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.

 

[Jynx]

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.

Same really. Though I'm in a happy place right now, pretty much using the reissue Fender 54 (jazz), Nameless (metal), and Soldano (rock) exclusively.

My need has become very distilled. I've whatever the opposite of whatever option paralysis is of late.

 

[Tanax]

The way this company is being run is baffling. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of the QC and the UX is completely my style... but I would never dare to buy it because of how inconsistent and slow the updates have been. Especially considering how much it lacks compared to Line6 and Fractal (or even the cheaper Chinese ones).

I used to love their blog updates, but these days it's just shit. And I don't give a shit about PCOM. Although I realize some do. But devoting this much resources towards it while essentially neglecting all other developments is .. well, as I said in the beginning.. baffling.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

I‘m happy with my non-existent QC, even without updates It suits my needs.