Quad Cortex Wish List

Atomic does in their Amplifire line.

“Power” Amps: We provide authentic-sounding power amp sims for tube types; EL34, 6L6 , KT88 and EL84 for use with your favorite preamp pedals . Each has a particular sonic character, so experiment for what works best . On Power Amp models, only the Master and Presence knobs are active . The Level knob still controls the overall output .

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I stand corrected. Thank you for that info.

I did see in the QC amp and effects list that they plan on offering some power amp sections. I’m pretty excited for that.

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i wish the octave effect in QC is close to kingtone - Octaland mini, damn this pedal sounds nice

In the effects list I only noted very basic reverb and delay effects. In reviews for Kemper it was said that these effects have the quality of Strymon pedals.
Will the QC also provide such high quality effects and allow to chain about 4 of those memory/CPU intensive algorithms ?

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As an added bonus, I would be delighted if in addition to valve amps, the developers remembered some amps for guitar transistors. I love the Gallien-Krueger 250 that so many artists used to record their records in the 80’s. Thanks!

Today there will be a lot of ideas =)

Global Effects Section

Please do a global reverb module like a global equalizer. It is convenient to have a reverb that adjusts to the room for all presets at once. Also, given the ability of QK to replace the mixer for a small group, it is logical that it will have common reverb for all. It should look something like this:


The column on the left allows you to determine the send level for each stereo path. On the right we see the parameters of the reverb itself and a set of presets for it, it is quite ergonomic, without any extra drop-down lists.
In addition to the reverb and equalizer, a limiter and maximizer (although this effect is in doubt, it introduces a latency, but if use it only for sound from a computer, then it will come in handy) would be extremely useful. It is important that using these effects it is possible to process not only sounds from stereo paths, but also from a computer. Usually, this whole set is used on the master bus of DAW and their transfer to the hardware processor will allow for performance to give up a productive bulky PC and use even a rather weak tablet. Since global effects are intuitively felt to the right of the tool chains (and on mixers they are usually located to the right), it will be convenient to show this panel with a swipe from the right edge of the screen

Matrix of presets

You must have come up with something similar, but if not, then implement a matrix of presets for easy navigation:


There is no need to explain anything except say about the settings button at the top. In the settings dialog, you can specify:

  • how many banks it costs to fit on the screen (in this example there are 5, but you can fit more)
  • font size
  • hide preset names

By the way, the tag system should be supplemented with the ability to assign a color to each tag, then this matrix can be made more informative, like this:

Quick action

In the global menu, it’s worth creating a section in which users can assign specific actions for certain gestures available on the touchscreen. I don’t know what gestures are not used, but we are talking about such

  • Swipe from the left edge of the screen
  • Swipe from the right edge of the screen
  • Swipe from the bottom of the screen
  • Two-finger touch
  • Three-finger touch
  • Four-finger touch
  • Five-finger touch

These actions should be available for appointment:

  • Show Global FX Panel (Reverb, EQ, Limiter, Maximizer)
  • Show Preset Matrix
  • Show DrumMachine
  • Turn off the screen backlight and foot switch lights
  • Turning off the device (a five-finger gesture is not very convenient, I would assign to this action)
  • Select one of the preset / stomp / scene modes
  • Display Level Monitoring Mode in each block
It's about this

QC - monitoring

  • Mute all sound
  • Mute all stereopath (Leave sound from PC)
  • Other useful processor features that I have no idea

Quick bypass block

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One of the most successful functions of some processors is dedicated buttons for effect blocks. Unfortunately, not all developers think so, someone doesn’t do them at all, the BOSS company cannot decide in any way - they will add it in one model, remove it in the next one, and so on and on. Here is the MOOER well done, GE200, 250, 300, all have these wonderful buttons.
KK, of course, has no buttons for this task, а 4x8 matrix of buttons is not the best solution =)
But it would be great in the global settings to be able to override the behavior for a tap on the block: let it turn on bypass mode, and edit mode was called, for example, by swiping up or down from the block.

Smart energy saving

In the case when the device is used as the main sound card, several triggers will be useful to make the device more intelligent and economical. These features should be available as options in global settings.

  • A trigger that will turn off the device when the connection to the computer via USB is lost (this trigger should be set a short delay, 1-2 minutes, in case the user wants to connect the device to another computer).
  • It will be very cool if the device can turn on when the computer turns on and the USB connection appears again.
  • When establishing a connection with a computer, the device should turn off the backlight of the screen and footswitches after n minutes (“n” is set by the user). You can return the backlight by touching the screen or footswitch of the tuner.

Global encoders

The ability to assign global actions to rotary encoders, for example, the headphone volume would be very convenient to assign to the upper encoder responsible for switching preset banks (It seems to me that things like various volume controllers should always have physical manifestations available instantly, this is very important when working with sound).
Given that any effect parameters can be adjusted using the touch screen, you can freely use encoders for other tasks globally, for example, for MIDI commands, or the most popular parameters of amplifiers and effects that you always want to have at hand.

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I wish for a tuner that can go down to a C0 at 16.35HZ, since I play my bass in D0 and it would be a shame to waste pedalboard-space for something, that is already built into the Quad Cortex.

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I had kemper since the beginning till about 2 weeks ago and I also have strymon stuff. It defo didn’t have strymon level effects

That’s what I thought about to make it super useful in practice. Not just another sound.

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Excellent idea!!!

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I want can copy and past just a part of signal chain, with some preseted effects to another presets.

For example: create new guitar effect with the same vocal effect

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It’s amazing William, pretty good contributions

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Uoool! That’s impressive

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Surprised this didn’t occur to me before given all those who expressed desire to have the NDSP plugins available in the 4C. My current recording workflow involves using my Helix Floor as an interface to my DAW where I always reamp using Helix Native.

It would be really cool if 4C owners could get a plugin version of the hardware. I’d be happy to pay for the plugin as an additional product the way it works with Helix Native but it would enable me to maintain my workflow using the 4C.

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By the way, this is extremely useful in the case of using QC by several musicians. It is not necessary for everyone to own such an expensive device, but having a simple audio interface at home they can rehearse with authentic sound and prepare processing chains for themselves.

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I Would like to have a guitar Synth block, mono or better polyphonic

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An eventide crystals/strymon ice delay type algorithm would be nice

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If i spend 1600 euro on this unit it would be nice to have at least a Parallax for bass and a couple of your plug ins already in in it.

Dunno if it’s still the plan but back in January Doug said “One thing we’ll include for sure is the Parallax”

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