I’ll update next week and do some tests, but I have a show on Saturday and haven’t been affected by any of the bugs that are fixed in the latest version, so not updating for now.
on my MacBook Pro '23, M3, 36gb mem Sonoma 14.3.1; USB B to C cable; local backup completes and all other functions working smoothly (sorry)
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Not sure this is of help but i reckon we might be more suited to something that is for actual players as opposed to those just wanting every cab and every effect in a home studio and here we are - Nano Cortex - Neural DSP
Thank you, but the last thing I want is another device that is going to tie me to using my phone more 
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Not to sort of seem sour on QC but for me as great as it is it is a studio tool. No one onstage needs 500 different amps or 30 different cabs surely. We need resilience, we need it to survive a beer landing on it or being stepped on accidentally, we need it to not break when ground crew at airports eyes light up as it says “Fragile” on the case and they then throw it on purpose as they are pissed off with their jobs. (have experienced this first hand). I am reluctant to gig mine as i can’t afford a spare either. So am still using Line6 Pod Pro Mk1s, mainly because of the “insane” patch does not have the new metal nasal frequency i dislike. Good times. Not.
You can cross out one of your worries: For a marketing gag two (or three?) NDSP team members stood on a single QC and jumped multiple times and it has not taken a single scratch.
Regarding the amount of amps and effects: I indeed do need a huge amount of models on a modelling platform because I need to find the ones that suite my tonal needs. Sure I won’t use all of them for a gig, but the chances are higher to find some that are exactly what I’m looking for.
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That’s the perfect way of putting it, I second that completely; and for me, resilience is also about not having a UI that comes laden with risk (for example the way you change Mode; it is so so easy to change Preset by mistake when you try to change Mode that using the QC live actually worries me, which makes the whole unit increasingly pointless for me)
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There are a lot of problems (for me) in using the QC live as a floor unit. I use it with a midi foot controller which is by no means ideal but much better in a live situation. It’s a much better unit when it is off the floor IMHO. The touch screen isn’t ideal live either in a hot/sticky/sweaty environment if you need to make quick changes live. It sounds great though so I stick with it, at least for now anyway.
No one needs 500 different amps or 30 different cabs, but 500 different players all need one or two at least, hence the popularity of units like this and why people are moving away from using one amp and cab (among many other reasons).
The unit is very resilient. I had a mic stand fall directly onto mine and only left the tiniest blemish on the screen. I sweated profusely onto it at a gig last month and the unit was fine (apart from my sweat activating options on screen as I hadn’t locked it - live and learn).
Mine has been kept in a plastic ‘toolbox’ for the last two years (that has served as my pedalboard case since 2018 - best £35 I ever spent). It has been in and out of multiple vans, many, many venues and stages.
I doubt I’ll trust it in checked airplane baggage, but that’s a slight on airlines, not the QC.
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That’s also a good way of putting it - I also stick with it for now, anyway, largely because it sounds good, but I don’t enjoy using it sadly, because there are so many poorly thought through aspects to the UI. So in time there will be something else that will lead me to leave the NDSP universe. Which is fine. But it would be nice if NDSP cared enough to want to keep people like me who are a bt ambivalent about the QC as loyal customers by listening more, and hyping less…
Agreed.
At a rehearsal, I had my iPad fall from a music stand directly onto the display -
After I regained consciousness, I checked the QC screen and there wasn’t even a scratch. It’s a tough unit.
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