Downloaded 3.0 and use my free gift for plini X after everything was complete all my factory sounds and created presets still sound great but the Plini presets Sound lifeless base, heavy, and like There’s a blanket over it. I run my quad cortex in hybrid mode, stomps, and scenes. In order for me to listen to the plini Do I need to change my configuration? Could that be the reason why the presets sound bad? When I listen to the presets in the quad cortex videos, they sound great. Any help would be appreciated I am sure I am doing something wrong Thanks, Quad cortex fam.
Different modes wouldn’t affect tone.
How are you monitoring the QC?
Nothing else in your setup has changed?
Nothing in my setup has changed. use studio monitors, mac and motu interface. So do i need to change to scene mode and that will effect all my other custom presets. Again everything both custom presets and factory presets sound great.
Are you auditioning presets or creating your own? Clean or gainy?
just auditioning the Plini presets Clean and gainy sound muffeld unless i eq the crap out of it.
sorry miss read your reply scratch the mode reply
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Strange that others sound ok.
Have you tried using the QC as USB interface?
no but will do that next thanx for the info
This is my first experience with plug-ins, I chose the Plini X as my free gift as well, a wee bit disappointed. I build much better presets from scratch just using native QC patches, not much usable to me with this plug-in so far. Old school tube amp/reverb, delay, OD player, I do not like to waste my precious woodshedding time playing with toys. Like the QC, go back to focus on it for next upgrade IMHO.
The Plini X clean amp is a Roland Jazz Chorus. I never seem to get along with factory presets in general.
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I wasn’t crazy about the Plini presets (haven’t tried on the QC yet, though) - I mainly use it to build presets from scratch. If you listen to Plini, you’ll see why; his tones work for his style, chord voicings, layers, mixing, etc. but most don’t sound great by themselves. I, too, found many of them overly dark or, conversely, spikey.
I found the clean amp with edge of breakup or the crunch amp with lower gain is good with lots of the delay/reverb.
But do let us know if there’s genuinely something wrong with your setup or the presets. I’ll try some out myself later today.
Ok everybody thanks for the great feedback. Sooooooo Plini is a dark sounding presets for sure. I took a preset from one of the list and really messed with it and well it gets way better but it takes some working. so my unit is responding as it should… got very concerned something was up… lesson learned. thanks everybody again for the valuable feedback
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Do you know what the other two amps are? Sounds Marshall-ish to me. The closest I got from the QC models is the Friedman model with all the switches up (Sat, CS45 etc).
Rumor has it:
Clean (Roland JC120)
Crunch (Friedman BE)
Lead (5150)
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Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere. I have 3.0.0 and Plini X. Just connected MacBook to use Cortex Control and the Plini presets are not available in Cortex Control. I just installed the latest version. Only presets are “factory presets” and “my presets”. I can see all the plini blocks but no plini presets. Strange!
PlugIn presets on the Quad have their own category at the top of the Directory Hierarchy. It’s in the menu w/ Presets, caps, favorites, etc.
Here’s the CoCo layout:
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edited to add manual screenshot
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@xush Yes I found them on the QC but they appear to be missing in Cortex Control.
Oh my bad. I found them on the left hand side. There is a new button for plugin presets after you select directory from the top.
They are organised very differently to the factory and user presets. Not in blocks or even numbered at all. Hopefully they synchronised the layout in a future update.