Brilliant. The lights look more continuous than in previous videos. I do think that the sliders and knobs should have more precise lights around the edge maybe, but I watch the screen anyway, and if you play by sound it’s not an issue.
The sequencer and pad options are great.
I asked them about that slider on the bottom and they said it can send continuous midi note, cc or osc data for two points and/or the space between the two points. 2 note polyphonic ribbon controller!!!
I also asked about customs and import vat. They are obliged to put a customs invoice for US $80 in the shipment because we download the software from their site??! They can’t mark the item as gift if you pay by pledge.
No, but you can lower the costs when using an RMA process, however that requires you to send something to them first and then they have to use the same RMA form to “return” you the “repaired” article.
But the best official way around it would be convincing a local dealer to purchase a large stock and sell it to you with less overhead costs; Dealers often can deduct these kind of taxes from their profit taxes.
Hi!,
My name is Matt Hettich & I’m the product specialist at KMI. I work in office in Berkeley and am currently the guy working on MIDI mapping and the QuNeo MIDI layout!
Another thing: I’ve been using Renoise (almost exclusively) since 2003 or 2004 and tracking for much longer…
I will (personally) be using QuNeo mostly with Renoise!
All that to say, I expect Renoise and QuNeo will get along nicely! This community is close to my heart, so feel free to e-mail me any questions: matt@keithmcmillen.com
Thanks,
Matt Hettich
Product Specialist @ KMI
Wake @ Proximal Records
I guess you didn’t hear about the new XYPad application then - seems almost like a perfect fit for this type of controller?
But yeah, it’s a new paradigm since the thing has both pressure sensitivity AND can detect the pressed location. I guess the important question is “how should this be put to use?”
Woot!! You can expect me to drop you a few questions about the unit’s specifications for sure
Of course I know about the XY Pad. Doesn’t help you with anything unless you’ve hooked it up to something else innit
Point is for things like Duplex, where parameters get automatically assigned depending where you are, it may not be the most obvious. Setting up a decent map via OSC, where you can assign different pads to control effects and samples in different tracks plus loads of power with the other controllers it will be far out there! A lot more work setting up and ideally suited to performance, rather than composing, in my personal opinion.
Hope that makes it a little clearer what I was trying to say
Not to venture completely offtopic, but I feel I have to “clarify back”:
It’s true that some Duplex apps are generic in nature - such as the Mixer, which adapt to the current track - and doesn’t feature ‘hardwired’ mappings like the traditional MIDI mappings. But this is really not a limitation of Duplex, but rather a design philosophy I initially followed - however, I’ve noticed that all things Duplex are becoming less generic and more “customization friendly”, a hybrid sort of workflow.
For instance, with the XYPad app you can freely roam any XYPad device in your song, but you can also have such perfectly hardwired mappings, automatically recalled/restored when the song is loaded. So, whenever you feel like modulating two parameters across a surface, you just add an XYPad, configure it to your liking and bam!! it’s at your fingertips.
What it doesn’t do, however, is to create the DSP devices on-the-fly, Cells! style. But there’s absolutely nothing to prevent such a thing, it’s just how I roll. I like that Renoise is the foundation for everything that’s done with the controller, that the “state” of any given parameter is represented somewhere within Renoise (I guess this is what you mean by performance, but I digress…).
But no matter what, something unique like the Quneo would probably be best off with a dedicated script/application (actually, this is what I’m hinting at with the “how it should be put to use” question).
I placed an order. Check out this video using it as a step sequencer. Since there are multiple sensors you can easily use the pads as a 8x8 grid. Wonder if you could make it 12x12 using the middle top/bottom/sides of the pads.
Few videos from NAMM in the latest update. These couple cover most features they were demonstrating.
Although this comment was in the email: “We recently sent out a survey to collect your shipping info. If you haven’t yet responded, make sure you do so soon.”
I’ve not received an email. Has anybody else who jumped in on it who isn’t based in USA been contacted?
(Why can’t I get the Media tags to work all of a sudden?)
Second vid is interesting, as the mapping system is explained a bit. Sounds like you don’t have to be a scripting wizard to put it to use (keeping in mind that the capabilities of a one-to-one mapping system is rather limited, this is still good news).
They can’t mark the item as gift if you pay by pledge.
