When QC is used as a sound card, you don’t need it to shine all the time, especially at night, therefore, a command to turn off the screen is needed, as well as 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 (customizable) 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.
I use the QC as a desk rig and audio interface, the screen is on all the time, so it would be great to have a screen saver option for when not using with an option to turn off time limits etc.
One more vote, i was looking to make a new thread to ask if it was possible to do !!!
Yes for those who want to use the QC as the main soundcard (reason also i bought it, my choice was a new soundcard or sell my kemper and by the QC ) it is must have feature !!!
Main soundcard often is On for very long period of time so the possibility to turn the screen off when you record singing, or just mixing is more than needed !!
Adding another vote for an intelligent screen saver to the pile. I’d like to keep the QC on but not burn out the screen. Perhaps activate the screen saver after a period of time with no major active signals, and then come out of screen saver mode when the screen or any control is touched, or when a major active signal is being processed?
Signed up just to post this suggestion but found your thread instead. Added my vote. Use mine as an audio interface all the time so would be nice to be able to turn the screen off entirely, even as a manual process.
I just received my QC yesterday and just finished setting it up
I will be using it as my audio interface and could not find a way to turn the screen off or initiate a screensaver
I guess that is not an option
As such, I suggest this option be made available ASAP
I voted a while back for options for the power button. I use mine as a desktop and would like to be able to set it so a quick push puts it to sleep and then wakes it up. Now I have to hold it then select sleep and when I try to wake it up inevitably I hold it too long and I get the selection screen again. So options to select what happens and a slider to adjust the delay speed to pull up the full menu.
Press and hold the power button and select standby from the pop-up. When you’re ready to continue, tap the power button and you’re instantly back up n rockin’.
Standby isn’t really what one would think comparing it to standby/sleep of e.g. a laptop. It just turns of the screen and mutes the outputs IIRC. It draws a good amount of power (and gets / stays pretty warm) in standby.
Well, you guys are absolutely right. The difference in power consumption between Standby and On is negligible. I grabbed my semi-accurate Kill-a-Watt tester (measured at the QC wall wart) and it showed a draw of .26A while On but idle, .22A in Standby and .05 when Off.
This request has 46 votes, obviously not one of the top requests. You are new and may not understand how Neural implements new features. Just because something you want isn’t implemented doesn’t mean they have ignored anything. They implement based on their internal roadmap and have included popular feature requests as well.
Well, this isn’t the only post on this topic. This one has 46 votes, another has 42 requesting the same thing. That’s a total of 86 votes for this feature.
A simple ‘screen-off’ feature would likely be the easiest addition they’ve ever made, especially considering the other feature requests are things like software overhauls, complete new fx, major display layout configuration changes, etc.
It’s confusing that they say QC/QC Mini can be used as an audio interface, yet they insist the screen stays on, which wastes power and risks screen burn.
And 3 years later, after people are regularly commenting that they want this feature, they still haven’t done anything about it.
But hey, fingers crossed. I’ve got 30 days to return my QC mini so will see if I can just live with it or not.
I tend to use both the editor and QC screen together, so would hate to lose that possibility. The editor is up for changing the effects and I’m using the QC screen to change scenes in gig view.
If you use gig view on the editor, there is little space to see much else.
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