Much more interested in the non-paywalled content additions for this year, whatever they may be.
Any word as to whether 2.3.0 will include any new content or improvements? It seems odd that they'd do a full minor revision just to give their official blessing to functionality that was already working in beta.
This has always been my frustration with the QC. When you owned it in the early launch window the features were such a concern because it was
assumed native content would be pushed aggressively. Like that was taken as a given. Except that’s not really been the case either.
In the calendar year the QC added 4 amps, a delay, and two stomps.
Before 2.2 you could get cute with timeframes and find a period where 1 amp was released in 14 months.
They go to great lengths to say new plug-in development does not affect native content or old plug-in updates, but that would actually be a better excuse, because in lieu of that, what explains the huge droughts of content?
The truth is of course they have a limited amount of capability and they have multiple pipelines to feed, all of which affect one or the other. Plugins have actually been a burden to users, because Neural is left to devote resources to filling that promise at the expense of other development. Once they release compatibility (which appears to now be a staggered release of compatible plugs, which will likely last all year, if not longer) I’m not sure if it’s going to be anything other than a symbolic victory.
One thing that struck me on my second go round with the QC was how similar it was to my first go round from a content perspective. In
three years, they’ve released two new delays, the plate reverbs (yeah it didn’t launch with plate reverb), a handful of overdrives and fuzz, and maybe 10 amps. In Fractal land that’s called “Fall Updates”
Edit: There was the chorus update that added a bunch of chorus options and the new flanger.
It’s such a fun device to use, which is what ultimately makes the whole thing all that much more frustrating. If they were cranking out native content with any sort of fixed reliability all of this plug-in stupidity would be pointless, and users wouldn’t grow bored waiting for something, anything, to happen.
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Stick with what you like! Trust me, there are days where I'm like "Fractal isn't open sounding enough, it sounds too boxy, how much is a Kemper again?"
