TheTrueZoltan!
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I‘m happy with my non-existent QC, even without updates It suits my needs.
NDSP Quad Cortex
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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.
I tend to be on this side even though I'm an ex-owner, and likely will forever be.
NDSP and the QC are known qualities at this point. If you've paid attention to any of their communication in the last however many months, you shouldn't be surprised that A) they're chronically late and B) they have lots of room to improve with customer communication.
Even if many specific models are MIA, they've essentially fulfilled the general premise they sold this unit on: It's a compact, yet powerful touchscreen-driven modeler, multieffects and capture device with a cloud-based infrastructure.
User-generated content is plentiful and will continue to keep the device somewhat fresh. However clownish NDSP is has nothing to do with when you sit down with the device at a gig or rehearsal. If you can live that, it's a good-to-great value and solid alternative to Line 6/Kemper/Fractal right now.
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Same. And lately I've been running 4cm with the two sounds (give or take) a Marshall DSL makes, and that's that. It's actually been kind of refreshing to not worry so much over guitar tone lately. ("That's Jim Marshall's job."
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PCOM is dumb. No two ways about it.
And I've grown quite fond of Fractal's UI/UX since selling my FM3.
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fuck man its just a lot of wasted energy at this point. you dont have one and never will and hate the company and post about it all the time, thats fucking awesome of you... gold star hahahaha. the QC sounds amazing, it is easy use, and i like the size of it. i haven't even got mine on the wifi yet and have no idea what update its on, could be stock for all i know. i play it nightly and enjoy it, thats plenty for me. the touch screen is nice. makes it really fast to adjust. im kinda an old not tech guy and i figured it out pretty fast.
The good thing about the non-existent QC is it comes with non-existent updates - the exact same as the real QC. So I think that's a bargain!
paisleywookiee
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I still want a Nano Cortex. With my iPad, it'll be the ultimate man-purse rig.
Are these guys for real? This is ridiculous.
5 years and nothing has changed. This has been modus operandi right from the start.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice....
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To be fair IMO That product they have actually delivered above expectations on
And is good value for the money and a grab and go
GTR37
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It’s just their thing go look at the new Darkglass bass product
It was pre order
People are complaining about delays and they are saying building will commence August 1st , they are still working on Midi controllers and want to get it right
I feel like it could possibly be a QC sequel
paisleywookiee
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Yup, that's how I buy products, for what they do today. I wouldn't have bought it prior to 2.0, especially with their track record. But now it does what I want.
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What I get a kick out of is reading QC owners tell other QC owners “Buy it for what it does today”, particularly when it’s a newer QC owner telling it to a pre-order QC owner, being completely unaware that the QC is the entire reason that statement exists.
TheTrueZoltan!
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Did you think of the QC when you chose your "dropped at birth" avatar? You've hit the nail on the head.
By they do you mean the owner of the company? Ya, probably.
I feel like people in the company probably said something along the lines of ‘uhhh its not that easy’ and he was too stubborn to walk it back….I made that all up in my head though so it could be complete BS lol.
paisleywookiee
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Yeah, I mean there’s no denying the QC is a shit show, development wise.
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Mikael Dez
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Meanwhile in Finland:
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It's European!
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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.
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