There’s enough unanswered questions to keep me away from it for at least a year until it hits buyer’s hands. The main thing is with Doug stating “All files must go through the cloud”. Despite an NDSP employee saying the desktop editor could create an entirely cloudless situation, I’m still going with the owner’s own words. My biggest thing is IR’s. There’s no way I’m going to bother with uploading the IR’s I already have on my computer, to the cloud, just to re-download them again.
I’m already very, very stoked with my Axe III and the biggest selling factor of the QC, for me, is that I could capture some amps my buddies own. The lack of component based modeling and NDSP’s lack of interest in providing deeper parameter editing is certainly not a selling point as I spend most of my time in the deeper parameters.
I’m also turned off by the marketing aspect to a degree and I think they shot themselves in the foot by making some big claims at the start and even when it’s finally released, it won’t have some basic functions (no auto-engage for exp pedals), or functions that were supposed to be included up front (running NDSP’s plugins). This could entirely be the result of how things are done in my line of work; I get proposals from vendors all the time and even though they’re trying to sell me on their services, it’s not done by promising gold and giving silver. It’s exactly what the vendor can deliver and becomes a binding contract when I sign it. If there are any deficiencies after services rendered, I get on the phone and start getting my company’s money back.
), there's no reason to go to the trouble of "capturing" anything, IMHO. Fractal has done all that heavy lifting for us.
