Posts by muggel

Quote from Alfahdj

Then you would be destroying the whole pourpouse of the design, as lightweight, sturdy, twisting knob/switch, big screen, compact unit, all of that doesnt matter anymore. You would rather do better with a 1U or 2U rack unit, as Axe/kemper/helix, and a midi controller. ....

Quote from karlic

If only those rack units came in a 1u or 2u size, that would be a little easier.

Alfahdj  karlic you see, that´s exactly what I meant above.

We´ll never get a swiss army knife when it comes to such stuff. Again: I think that the QCs main purpose is thought as a device which can be easily carried from living room to studio, from desk to the floor, on a plane etc while still having the necessary I/Os to create profiles and footswitches to jam, record and test. And it is "even" usable for live performances. With 1.6 KG. And IF you need something beer & moshpit proof, go for another remote control.

If you want a more durable device, a helix or a kemper might be the better form factor, while a the same time you get more than double the weight and dimensions (even not considering the kemper´s remote control - just talking about the stage).

Quote from Nikos

Obviously the folks behind this product don't know much about the needs of the common musician out there.Or they dont care and try to impress bedroom nerds with dsp graphs,fancy UI or whatever a working musician does not really need when he is on stage or in the studio.

Wouldn´t the simpliest solution for such events be an additional FCB1010 or something similar plugged into the QC?

I doubt that there will ever be a "one size fits all" device. It´s always a balance act between size, weight, functions (I/Os), features etc.

If someone wants/needs a super robust floorboard for gigs in purgatory, I don´t think that a floor profiler (!) is the perfect device to go with. I guess that the idea behind the QC is much more to provide a super portable & lightweight device which enables musicians and studio professionals to recreate AND create sounds with ease everywhere they go (1.6KG vs 5 KG (Kemper)). At the same time it wants to be a device for home & studio usage which even can be used in live environments as well if needed.

Quote from Alfahdj

The glass screen is right by the footswitches, isn’t that a risk?

Not knowing how big the difference is between a touch sensitive screen and a standard LCD panel is when it comes to durability, I just want to add that I´ve actually never heard about broken screens with a Helix, Headrush, AXE/FM3 etc. Is there a reason to assume that´ll be different here?

Some interesting comments popped up recently....

Quote from Alfahdj

I will take it out of my head, as I have seen the whole sales brochure and videos, and so far, everything to me points out they are emulating their own plug in platform in a hardware package. That has LOTS of implications as some people stated before, this means they are trying to run PC or Linux based software into 4 DSP cores, hence making the allocation and processing slow but powerful. I hope it is not the case, but it sounds like the easy way out for a software company, because doing everything from scratch as Kemper did, is more difficult and time consuming. In comparison, Kemper profiler runs on a toaster (fun we ended up calling the head like that), as it is not trying to emulate processing from a PC, it does its own thing. Neural is doing what helix, but the difference, line 6 is hackin rich and has done both software and hardware since ages ago.

I feel like you´ve made an interesting point here, I just fear that I didn´t really get it yet due to my lack of actual technical knowledge . Would you mind to further elaborate your fears a bit? How would that "VST in a box" approach be worse compared to how the Kemper is set up? What makes that "PC on a chip" thing weaker?

I´m really interested!

Quote from DanielRigler

To my knowledge it is not really 2 GHz, it is simply a 500 Mhz quad-core chip.

Good point as well! But I have to admit that I didn´t find any more infos on that (not even on SHARK themselves). Do you have any sources for that?

Referencing to the aging process with smartphone chips, I´m interested in the lifetime of such processors as well. That said, I can´t complain at all when it e.g. comes to the Helix. Having it since years, I don´t see any signs of aging at all, neither with regarding processing nor regarding the display etc...

Quote from GearJocke

Kemper forum and the most discussed topic is neural cortex.

As Alienator said: No surprise actually, as the Cortex is the single only direct competitor since almost 10 years with a new technical approach and some promising features. Would be strange if the community wouldn´t be super exited (at least on an informative level)

Quote from CelticGibson

Wow, the tone of that Line 6 changelog. It's like they got the angry intern to write it.

Is aggression another effect added to this release?? ?

Have to admit: I found that part of the changelog hilarious Quite my kind of humor

Regarding gaps between patches/presets:

For those who are interested: Helix 3.0 Update, which was released yesterday, contains "True Preset Spilllover"
Source: https://line6.com/support/page…ix-30-release-notes-r934/

Regarding the robustness/reliablity of Cortex´ buttons:

As recommended by myself a few pages back, i think NEURAL DSP actually called IKEA:

Quote:

"Being a completely new design, we have gone to extreme lengths to test the durability of rotary-linear actuator. We have actually engineered our own robots just so we can simulate the equivalent of years of use in a matter of days. We have similar robots for testing the durability of the rotational mechanism as well."

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Quote from OneEng1

....activate the switches a few thousand times then see if the foot switches are still working

They can ask IKEA for their chair testing machines

Quote from yannickj

If you setup your DAW with two different tracks (left/spdif1 and right/spdif2) and then configure the spdif1 to send it's signal back to the Kemper (in Reaper I have to add an Audio Hardware Output to the track and then choose the SPDIF connection there) then it should work.

Hey yanniskj! thanks a lot for your reply!

Totally makes sense - and thanks for even adding what to do within reaper, as that´s my main DAW too I will try it out in a few days and get back to you to tell if it worked!

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+1 to that! I simply can´t understand why such a standard feature like copy/paste or drag & drop is not yet implemented. I mean...that´s Windows 97 standard And it really drives me mad every here and then, as I have a huge collection of (paid) profiles which simply can´t be managed within Rig Manager properly.

Quote from tnipe

I've head something about there not being enough space to add SPDIF, but I don't know if it's true...

yeaah well...I mean...they designed the chassis as well, so... You are totally right & that´s most probably the reason (I think I read that on GearPage) but the "space" was their design-decision as well

Quote from tnipe

I have a nice interface in my studio, and I don't want to switch everything around just to record the guitars. With the Kemper it's effortless. With the Quad Cortex, I'll have to use the analog outs. No biggie, but why go through extra conversion if you don't need to.

Jupp, totally makes sense. Despite I wouldn´t use it, I´m still wondering why they didn´t add it . I know that they tried hard to reduce buttons, ports (or let´s say: holes in the chassis) as much as they could (that´s even the reason why there´s a capacitive touch on/off switch instead of a "haptic" button), but I/Os are no joke...

Quote from DanielRigler

I hope Kemper gets some more serious competition in the future. So far nothing comes close. A more active competition is a good thing and can theoretically push Kemper to even higher levels of quality. Just don't get fooled by marketing bullshit. Try everything first hand and decide yourself.

Second that 100%. And I think that Kemper still has room for improvement even on their old platform. In the end, it´s all about the sound. And Kemper is still ahead to its competitors (for whatever reasons, I still don´t get why ).

When it comes to me personally, one major step for them has to be aquiring a more "modern" oriented & skilled software developer team & ux specialists. Enrich the sound with a competitive software for the B2C market - and there´s really not that much to complain about.
Besides the USB thing .

Quote from Grooguit

But isn't it great that guitarist have such diverse options available for the way they prefer to stay organized?

It indeed is! And besides, it´s really a great time to be a guitarist! If I compare options & prices with what was there when I started playing the guitar...gosh...

Hey there!

Just tuning in for some random & minor comments from my side

When it comes to gaps when switching presets: I actually never went into this issue with my Helix. Having 8 snapshots at hand all the time, you can create several amp signalpaths in one preset and work with 8 iterations PLUS the stomps separately within one live song without any gaps. I can´t imagine a scenario where this is not way enough. When it comes to the QC, there will be even more possibilities due to more DSP power.

Quote from tnipe

I'd probably buy it if it had SPDIF.

Coming from the HELIX, I´m always wondering why people are after a S/PDIF port at all. My biggest deal breaker for buying a KEMPER for a looong time was that it´s not an audio interface on its own. I was used to work via USB (where you get stereo, wet, dry etc all by just using...well...that one USB cable).

If the Quad Cortey had an S/PDIF port - I won´t use it at all. For me, USB is WAY superior.

Quote from Grooguit

The Quad, in terms of organization is pretty much the Helix, which I owned, played for 60 hours, and returned, less because of it's inferior sound (the not bad at all) but because the headache of staying organized for which I couldn't find a suitable work-around. My comparison between the Helix and Kemper was also before Kemper added the Editor, but even then I found it easier to stay organized. I would use this analogy. (....) Now with the KPA editor, it's like having both brooms available for sweeping that small room, if you actually want both.

Again - coming from a HELIX, it´s very much the other way round in my view. The KEMPER Rig Manager & Editor (as much as I love my Kemper for its sound) to me (!) is just an old fashioned, unflexible, completely outdated and - by all means - not at all easy to organize piece of software. If KEMPER´s sound wouldn´t have that tiny something (which makes it a competitor to playing actual amps), I´d IMMEDIATELY go back to the Helix especially for the editor, the data structure, the interface and the way how you can organize stuff.

Hi there!

I´m trying to get a grip on all the routing options I have with my Kemper My question is quite simple actually:

Is there ANY routing setup possible where I don´t have to do cable re-work but can just change the input source etc on my kemper in order to switch between MONSTER Setup and ReAmping?

For all readers, this is the Monster Setup:

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Quote from OneEng1

As a long long time engineer, I can not help but wonder about the reliability of this design. Seems like it would be fraught with failure modes.

Same here. I´m actually looking forward to the Quad Cortex & I think it would fit just great into my enironment - but the reliability of those buttons...i don´t know..

Wow mate, thx a lot Monkey_Man! Sorry for my late reply, I was on a hiking trip during the weekend :).

That indeed helped me a LOT! Setting the main volume made things a lot better, i´ll do some test recordings tomorrow to check the overall sound quality with this setup. Will let you know how things are going