I’m serious and talking about nano cortex. The only way to change some parameters is with mobile app that has to be online. And there is a gap in the changes of presets. If the great names can use it like this, congratulations but it’s very inconvenient to me with these two restrictions.
I think, the Nano got much better with 2.0, but I agree 100% with the gap. It’s a problem live, which is a shame.
I love the idea, and I would have bought that instead of the QC if all the plugins were available at the time. But now it’d be pointless. They’d probably have to charge so much for it that you might as well just get a Macbook which would be more useful in every way and would have a bigger screen.
Still; neat idea - I just don’t think it’ll ever happen, at least until all plugins are PCOM.
Me personally? I think it would be a failed product. I know Pcom was important to me at one point. But a unit that only was able to install the plugins for me wouldnt even be something they could produce. The plugins use up the most DSP power in the unit compared to the standard amps and effects. You would need just as much processing power as the quad just to get them to run. So I dont think it would be a cost effective product for them to make, I doubt it would sit at a price point between the nano and quad.
Im not saying you shouldnt want what you want. But its not a product I would be interested in purchasing. Plus even if you had every single of the ported plugins there isnt many others that are slated for pcom compatibility. And they are releasing plugins they say flat out wont be able to be run on the quad. So I kinda get the impression that once the plugins that have been announced for pcom are ported it may be something they move away from. There are a few left that say PCOM coming soon but a lot of them not at all.
JMO but I think neural is probably focused on the existing hardware and fine tuning them and delivering on things people have been waiting years for. In fact I do think that if neural released another hardware option of any kind at this moment would be a self inflicted fatal blow to their whole operation.
If you cant control your product, control the narrative. One of my biggest sticking point with the company. They delete information that doesnt paint them in a good light. Not always. But any time you could say a “group” of people is developing they are very quick to not just lock it but remove it. To me this is the opposite way in which to gain the “trust” the company claims they want to regain.
1 Like
The plan is, still, to update all of the guitar amp plug-ins* to X versions so they can be ported to QC later. It’s taking a long time, but they have not abandoned that effort.
*Mantra is the only exception, it being a vocal-focused plug-in which NDSP have explicitly stated that they would not port it for QC.
The time for the PCOM indicate that is extremely difficult to port guitar plugins to the QC which is mostly a guitar product also i assume that the QC is not powerfull enough to handle it.
For people that will dive in the Mantra AND are using the QC live for the band including vocals, it would probably be usefull if it was available on the QC.
I think the wrench in the plans was the codec chip end of life / migration.
1 Like