CameronJ

Soul/Neo Soul for me all day long. But enjoy playing a bit of metal sometimes as I find it to be a completely different (and fun) technical challenge!

Still not sure why Zoom continue to insist on making separate guitar/bass specific versions of their multis, rather than making one unit with all FX & amp models like pretty much every other major player in the multiFX modelling world does.

By far the most useful things there are the clip indicator/level meters! Been much-requested by Helix users for quite some time now so I’m glad to see them arriving at last.

Yeah that UI looks great! I’m really liking the rotary footswitches - the more I see them the more they make sense. Having so many immediately tweakable parameters (reducing the amount of menu diving) whilst simultaneously reducing the overall footprint of the unit and keeping the front panel clean/minimalist is a great design choice IMO.

Just leaving this here, particularly for @Al Krow:

Yup. Preorders are now past the initial batch of 1000 and are now into “Tier 2” with an estimated shipping date of November (as opposed to September for Tier 1)

In other news, regarding the sturdiness of the rotary footswitches, check this photo out:

I’d be surprised if there weren’t at least a couple of decent monophonic octavers (and maybe even a poly) in the unit but as we know, tastes in octavers can be very subjective/personal. I personally doubt there will be a ground breaking synth engine in the Quad Cortex. Look at Darkglass/Neural products thus far: distortions, compressors, amps/cabs etc. but zero synth stuff. The fact is, synth effects for guitar and bass are still a small niche area of the market and there’s a good chance that for Doug Castro and his team, building a comprehensive software synth engine to compete with the likes of Source Audio C4 and Future Impact simply isn’t worth the time and effort given the realistic impact on Quad Cortex sales at present. Not saying it’s impossible but precedent tells me it’s very very unlikely, especially at launch. Quad Cortex has serious processing power under the hood though, so one can argue it would be foolish for the Neural folks not spend time creating some more ambitious effect types for the platform. Time will tell! In the meantime, I’d happily stick a Source Audio C4 into one of the FX loops.

Just gonna leave this here - Q&A livestream with Doug Castro scheduled for tomorrow evening:

This.

No, it looks a bit like a full Helix competitor with similar-ish I/O to a Helix LT and dimensions very similar to an HX Effects. To be fair, over the last couple of years I’ve read loads of posts online from Helix users dreaming of a Helix without the expression pedal attached, since it seems a lot of folk rarely use it. Line 6 would never make it as it would potentially confuse an already well-populated product line. Re: price, check out the below from Neural’s website: €1599 total!

Sweet baby Jesus. That does look good. The mobile connectivity side of things has me particularly interested. Easy mobile backup and sharing of presets without having to connect to a PC is a massive boon. They’ve taken a good leaf out of Source Audio’s book in that regard. I suspect one of these may be in my future!

This does look incredibly interesting. To the sharper-eyed among us, you may notice a distinct absence of knobs - well apparently the footswitches have rotary encoders built into them! Pretty cool bit of design there, especially if they prove to be durable and reliable enough.

This confirms my suspicions - thanks chaps. I guess the workaround is to have white LEDs installed

Just had a thought. I love the idea of Luminlay fret markers but am not a fan of them only coming in blue or green. Come to think of it, most things that “glow in the dark” tend to be blue, green or yellow. Think party glowsticks or even the arms on an analogue wristwatch. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a “glow” product in white - is there a scientific reason for this? Hmmm...