Henson, Rabea, and Petrucci are the only plugins left in the plugin list marked as PCOM Coming Soon. I own Henson and Rabea and use them all the time (especially Henson) so I can’t wait for the next update (2026? Hope not. 
) to hopefully get those 3 compatible since they just added 3 with this release. My only other plugin is Plini which is already PCOM and it’s another great one so I’ll just keep on with that one until the next update.
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Rabea is the most expected and obviously the most delayed. Why? 
Because probably NDSP haven’t yet figured out how to make the synth block compatible in QC. Alongside many feature requests (on my opinion much more important ones) a pitch following synth block which is already a part of many brands out there for years is among our hopeless wish list.
Sorry for hard criticism, however, although I love my QC unit very much, I don’t think that the company REALLY gives much attention to its users around. Their priority seems to sell more plug-ins (which would prove more profitable when integrated with QC) instead of making their gear more competitive with other brands. I won’t stop repeating that, Fractal, Kemper, Helix etc. are way more ahead. I admit that the sound quality of QC is perhaps better, but it is not too distinguishing among these brands (it might also be arguable where Kemper at least sounds warmer). The only thing that prevents me from buying a FM9 which can do almost anything that a gigging guitarist would wish for is that I don’t have enough money to afford it even if I could sell my QC unfortunately.
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They programmed Preset UP switch for quitting immediately from Metronome/Tempo screen as far as I figured out. But this solution makes us tap-dance on switches if we just want to change scene or engage a stomp just after setting tap tempo. As I indicated previously, pressing any of the A-H switches was quitting from Tempo screen before. So it was very quick to press twice successively to engage a switch just following the tap tempo thing. Now, we have to first close the screen with UP switch, then select our action with A-H. It has become ridiculous, IMO.
A weird update:
If I press any scene switch while in Tempo screen, it changes to that scene just indicating it above in yellow box. However, it makes weird things if I press a stomp on hybrid mode. For ex. I pressed on C (octave in my case) , nothing happens. But if I press B (delay in my case), when I quit Tempo screen with UP button I encounter that my C stomp Octave is engaged. Weird enough. :))
Buuuuttttt…. :))) I figured out my mistake. On tempo screen A-H switch just serve to change SCENES even in Hybrid MODE. So actually, I change to scene C while I was thinking to engage my stomp on C. More weirdnesss :)) So how will it work on stomp or hybrid mode, we’ll see.
More update! This happens only when metronome is set to preset. If metronome is global then QC behaves as before. Namely, a press to one of A - H returns to gig view without engaging anything.
I would like to know when the CorOS 3.2.0 manual (pdf) will be available ?
It’s on the download page, but here’s the link
https://downloads.neuraldsp.com/file/quad-cortex/Quad%20Cortex%20User%20Manual%20v3.2.0.pdf?_gl=1*1ec2zm3*_up*MQ.._gaMzgxOTExMDYwLjE3NTQ3NzUwMzA._ga_M11P2CS51HczE3NTQ3NzUwMjckbzEkZzEkdDE3NTQ3NzUwMzIkajU1JGwwJGg4NzQ2MzM3NjM.
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Yeah I thought I was going insane too. The problem is the QUANTIZE value must be set to the time signature.
Example : Set the REC LENGTH to 1 Bar. Time signature of the metronome is set to 4/4 (BPM doesn’t matter). QUANTIZE must be set to 4 beats in order to get the full length of the bar. If you set the QUANTIZE value to say 3 beats, the loop will automatically stop at the 3rd beat instead of going through all 4 beats in the bar (notice that the metronome will keep playing in it’s time signature regardless of loop time). If you set the time signature to 8/4 and set the QUANTIZE value to 4, the loop time will end only half-way through the bar ; /
Yeah I find this weird too. So you have to set 2 values (QUANTIZE must be the same value as the time signature (beats per bar, NOT the subdivisions) in order to get the behavior you would expect. The only reason I can see that you would do this is to practice poly-meter riffs (which works great ).
Was messing around with the Transpose block and… is it just me, or does it sound way cleaner now?
Fewer artifacts, smoother tracking — tested it on a bunch of presets and kept thinking, “Wait, this wasn’t this good before… was it?”
Anyone else noticing this, or am I just (not) hearing things (again)? 
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It seems I missed it. Thanks for the link.
In fact I was looking for a MIDI message to turn on/off the metronome but did not find anything.
Does Neural DSP have in their plans to add more MIDI capabilities to the QC ?
I dont have mine anymore. So I missed the update by about a week. But can I ask if you have tried using it to the point where it was once not usable at all? If at that point you still hear an improvement, I would say you are correct. I would imagine that major things that people complain about get announced. But I would bet quite a bit goes into these updates that arent mentioned. Not to deceive. But because if they wrote down every single micro change I bet it would be exhaustive. It may be one of those things that fall into “other various improvements and bug fixes” category. I hope you are correct. Because I would use it but I could only go a full step down before it really didnt sound like a detuned guitar. Which was fine I didnt need more. But that would be super cool if they tightened that up.
Sometimes I wonder if companies put little easter eggs in there like that. Wondering if people notice an actual change thats audible and tactile without any input from them. That way they know that the feedback they are getting is truly genuine and not placebo because the customer was told about a certain improvement. For me thats where the hidden gravy would be for this last update that some feel was weak. If people just noticed an overall improvement in various aspects of the unit without prior knowledge. I hope others chime in and can confirm.
Not so sure about that-
I tried shifting up by 5 yesterday and it was pretty wonky.
Down-shifting (even clean tones) has always performed smoothly for me; not so much with shifting up
Just tried it and it’s still VERY glitchy. Any sort of interval that isn’t a perfect 5th or octave is so crazy sounding. Honestly it might sound worse now?
lol
before PCOM- you promise us PCOM! why aren’t you deliver?!
after PCOM- why you do what we asked for?! we want something else!
P.S
thanks for the update i have been waiting for metronome like hell!
thanks!
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150 bucks at plugin..
..and the QC costs a lot at the end. Really a lot.. Probably several blocks as effects are already as stock in QC…
Really expensive.
I have five plugs, but, always at the end , , for not owners of plugs the promises are flying horses in the Blue Sky
…Ah..at the end
Ahhh thanks, that makes a lot more sense; however, I’m still inclined to think this is a bug or an oversight because quantize doesn’t have the same divisions as the metronome so there are certain sigs you simply can’t use with recording length. To couple two features and not make them fully compatible just seems…not like neural.
yeah weird and slightly more complicated way for the looper to work but I welcome the count in and auto loop end, the only way I use it in any other software.
I’m staying positive here, but yes that’s definitely true.
Disclaimer: I’m in the gang that always wants to update stuff ASAP. I just like to strive towards the new and updated, I’m a Neural fan and countryman and I trust them to deliver quality; it’s just how my temperament wants to do things. But this time I admit I dodged a bullet. The new firmware has a bug with the John’s 2C amps that causes popping sounds when changing scenes, and Ch2 is the only distorted amp I use in live shows currently.
If I had updated the firmware the night before going to my next gig, I would have been in trouble. I would have had to quickly figure out a new amp that fits our mix, update all my presets with it, and hope that it works well enough on stage without being able to test it in rehearsals.
Of course none of that is Neural’s fault directly; the main point for me as an individual is to just not take risks like that. It’s okay if there’s no real stakes. But in any serious capacity, it’s just unprofessional practice. I’m glad that Neural are on the issue, and glad that I have time to make a backup tone.
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Maybe they should have more Beta testers since they missed a bug I reported to them and other peeps noticed it…and I guess how they didn’t pick it up is beyond me…it seems very closed shop compared to most others I’ve done it for…
And transpose works fine for me up or down
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Try playing any chard that isn’t a basic power chord and you’ll hear all the strange glitches transpose adds. It jumps between notes and starts to make the chord sound out of tune in a weird way
I will test and see what your saying… I don’t play power chords to be fair usually full chords
I notice Transpose struggling with clean tones shifted up past 3 steps or so. Other than that it does OK for me