Quneo Awesome Looking Controller

Wow, this is the ugliest controller I have ever seen :lol:

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).

I had read it somewhere before so knew the principle behaviour. Thought I remembered it being on the pdf I linked on the previous page but it’s not, that’s just more technical details of each controller. Was one of the posts on the Kickstarter site though: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kmi/quneo-multi-touch-open-source-midi-and-usb-pad-con/posts/148705

Very nice. If I didn’t already have an iPad and a padKontrol I would seriously consider buying this.

Soon!

Blasted Thomann and their backorder on the quneo

Saying people who paid before they were even seen in the shops haven’t seen hide nor hair of them yet I think it’s only fair!! :P :( :unsure:

Well their fair is their loss, i went for the BCF2000 instead. (Works like a charm btw)

I bought one a few years ago and it arrived faulty and I stupidly tried to follow the “correct” returns path of going through the reseller, which was impossible! After about nine months of an email and 5-10 phone calls each and every week I just gave up with the idea of getting it fixed even though it was broken new out of the box :(

But yeah, Behringer are great ;)

Duh, i even bought a b-stock model, now you make me feel bad about my purchase :( (Nevertheless, more reason to cheer for the fact that it is running flawlessly, poor you.)
Which reseller did you got it from anyway?

Turnkey. Who were for many years probably the biggest in the UK and then dissolved about a year later…

KMI has started the work to open source the QuNeo preset editor and there is now an Alpha Linux build available for testing.

If you are a Linux user with a QuNeo, please PLEASE download and try the Linux builds of the preset editor, and direct your friends to the announcment post

QuNeo Preset Editor for LINUX!! (Alpha)

It is important that we show KMI that there is indeed Linux, and Open Source, interest in their products, so that we can continue to build this relationship and continue to build Linux support for the products we use!

Even if you just download it, try it once, and report back here success or failure, it will help the software developers to know how things are working, and KMI know there is interest!

I am not an employee of KMI and do not represent them, but I am working with them on developing the Linux port of this tool (I am jrussell on the KMI forums).

Thanks!

Anyone have any direct experience with this yet? From the reviews and general data I can gather online it seems like its pretty, novel but unfortunately a bit rubbish in operation.

Daed’s got one and seems to be enjoying it. He uses it live. I tried to find a recent video, but couldn’t. Hit him up, though.

I have two, and cannot see any “rubbish” in their operation - granted, I am not doing live performance with them, but i have not run into any issues with functionality.

I believe kazakore also has one.

Here are some neat vids of really doing some cool stuff with them - Infinte Sinewave

Feel wise, the pads are nicer than the ones on my Akai MPK - 61, not as nice as the ones on my Axiom 25, but that may be personal preference - the pads are nicely thick, have a decent feel - My guess is some of the restriction in feel is due to sharing a piece of silicone with the sliders which of course cannot be sticky, and additionally since the pads are also x-y controllers, it may not work well if they were “softer”.

If you can site references to the rubbishness… I would love to investigate!

See this thread as well: https://forum.renoise.com/t/quneo-duplex/35028

The single most important question to me would be if the pads react to very light pressure. The akai MPD-pads for instance required way too much pressure for my taste.

I’ve tried out AKAI’s MPD32 and returned it because of this very problem. Great features and easy to program, but the pad sensitivity was way too low for me.

The QuNeo has nice sensitive pads, although I don’t know how they compare to pads on a Maschine or padKontrol. Those two seem to rank very highly among finger-drummers wanting greater sensitivity.