Which plugin would offer the most improvement to the quad cortex?

Quad Cortex
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Hi.
With these Black Friday deals coming up, I was thinking about getting some plugins for my Quad Cortex. (For now or hopefully in the near future). I currently have Nameless and Parallax.

I play metal. I really like Mesa Boogie amps, but I’m open to other options.

Initially, I was sure I’d choose the Rabea X because of the synth, but after trying the 14-day trial, the amp models don’t give me a very good feel when playing. Nameless, for example, feels more direct. I don’t know how to explain it. More of a raw, unprocessed amp feel.

I’ve heard great things about Soldano.

I’m currently trying Petrucci, which I’m really liking. Has anyone compared the plugin to the stock JP2C captures on the Cortex?

Also, in terms of effects, which one would “add the most” to the Quad Cortex?

Thanks a lot!

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The soldano is amazing and my favourite plugin

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For brutal metal Rhythm my fav is Nameless, Gojira for lead tone, Misha and Rabea good for modern creativity, Depends what you want..get them all ha!

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Of the 3 that I own, I think that Archetype Tim Henson X has the most interesting set of amps, ranging from acoustic to high gain. To me they all have the ability to dial in great tone. The Blend control on the Roses amp works really well with acoustics. The multivoicer is an awesome pitch shifter with MIDI input capability. The Cherubs amp has a really nice crunch, and the Pink high gain rounds out the variety perfectly. I love and use Rabea X and Plini X a lot (plus Plini on the QC) but by far Henson X is my favorite.

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The QC already has a good set of amps, cabs and fx. Spend your money on beer or flowers to cheer up your day.

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The Mesa stuff sounds terrible unfortunately. Tried a demo and wow those amps are rough. Granted I don’t love Mesa usually anyways, but I don’t see the plugin adding anything the existing Mesa models don’t already do

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Mansoor probably has the most non-QC content, but it’s very niche- Glitch engine and Ring Modulator. But who knows when it’ll be available? Like Rob says, almost everything else is basically already represented in the QC.

Petrucci has a nice acoustic simulator, that’s unique. (the Henson version is more of a flat amp than simulator)

Rabea has the EUNA, Cali 76 comp, and monosynth

Asato has a cool multi-head delay and rack-style reverb.

but mostly, it’s just add-ons that may or may not be useful devices in your particular case. There are no really fundamentally different core devices like amps except maybe Grano or Nameless or NTS, and who knows when we’ll get those

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I agree with the mesa plugin sounding terrible but takes a lot of tweaking to get it right. If they ever release the plugin to work on the QC I think it would sound amazing, only because I struggled with the plugin on pc for the soldano, but when it got the X update and was compatible it sounded unreal and easy to dial in a tone on the pc and QC(I have a feeling TINA works its magic on this situation)

With all the other artist plugins, to me they mostly sound like 5150 but in a variety. This is why id rather spend money on a plugin of a amp company than a plugin of an artist. I feel like people are paying for effects more than amps when it comes to plugins working on the QC. I think what’s going to make people more happy is releasing more effects and realistic ones

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I have quite a few of the plugins and I would say none of them sound as good as decent captures. I am not sure if you get the doubler and other plugin features with the base unit, but they are not super important.