I am hoping the mini with its fewer switches pushes them to implement full midi. The mini would be awesome with a midi controller like the luminite and its little remotes, which I love.
PS always buy a product based on what it is, not what you think or hope, or someone says, it will be in the future.
Seems easy if you restrict the DSP to only use half and then use the other half to run the next preset. Do people really want that though?
Yes! Switching presets without pauses is necessary for everyone, especially for concert guitarists. And I think they could do it, like a normal pitch change block without artifacts, but they are busy with plugins, then with Cortex Mini. Firmware 4 does not contain anything at all, except for 3 new reverbs.
I would not say „for everyone“…
Unless you need to seamless switch songs, I see no need, since for one song, 8 scenes should be enough.
John, use scenes not presets.
What if I have a clean in one preset, and a crunch and high gain in another, what do I do?
Sending you a DM with info on how to use Scenes. This will allow you to set up clean, crunch, high gain, etc., all within the same preset.
Well, then you are using the QC in a way that it was obviously not intended to be used.
They decided to have gapless switching between scenes, not presets.
But feel free…
I don’t do scenes but my setup is a clean amp, a dirty amp, od pedal, fuzz pedal. One footswich switches between the 2 amps, as I am emulating my TK imperialism 2 channels.
For each scene you should be able to choose which amps and pedals are used to address your needs. The only downside is that if you are using a lot of different items, then you could wind up with a cluttered layout or over taxing the cpu with a lot of unused but ready devices.
Super easy to use scenes for this. Just using a preset for one sound is the wrong way to use basically any modern modeler. Most modelers will have a gap (yes some have gapless, but not all modelers)
Fractal Audio has no gaps.
Thanks for the video, but I already have individual presets. And I’m used to them switching without pauses, like in a fractal audio.
That’s true. But there’s also a reason why they have separate channels for each effect, so you don’t need to switch entire presets at once. Fractal is one of the few that has gapless switching (a newer feature relatively for them tbh).
I would love gapless switching as well, but Neural doesn’t have that, and likely won’t. Line 6 only has gapless if you just use one DSP core instead of both.
We’re turning in circles. My only point before was that I absolutely disagree that “gapless switching is necessary for everyone".
The QC has scenes to change sounds during a song. And 8 should normally be enough for most use cases.
If for whatever reason some people don’t want to use scenes but instead switch presets during a song and then complain about the gap, so be it…
Peace! 
And again, nothing useful or important! There are no new amps with cabs, no new polyphonic pitch block, no gapeless preset switching, no support for plugins, in particular, Petrucci and Mansur’s archetypes, absolutely NOTHING! Oh, and where is the LFO? When or just never?
it was a Hotfix, and advertised clearly as such. It fixed a pretty substantial bug. Kinda sounding like maybe NDSP isn’t your cup of tea, there’s nothing wrong with going back to Fractal.
If you decide to stick w/ the Quad, you have to expect a slower pace with updates and very little communication- based on 5yrs of history that’s just how it is here and expecting or demanding otherwise will only lead to frustration. (they actually have picked up the pace a little bit recently, but as we’ve been over before you can’t expect them to do everything all at once)
*yawn* … … …
It was fractal that did all this and much more during all this time. I just bought a processor as “the most powerful digital modeler on the planet”, but in reality there are a lot of flaws that no one is even close to fixing. A significant fix? So there would be no problem and there would be no fix. But on this platform you can create a superprocessor, and here there are so many flaws.
Man I don’t think you’ll ever be happy here. I agree you should go back to fractal.
