Keith McMillen Instruments QuNeo Midi Controller

[SunkLo]

http://www.keithmcmillen.com/QuNeo/tour


Anyone messed with one of these? It's got pressure sensitive drum pads that are location sensitive. Essentially an XY pad overlaid on each MPC style backlit pad. You can assign clips to different parts of a pad or use them as an XYZ controller using position and pressure to modulate params. Even the buttons are pressure sensitive, and all the backlights can be programmed to reflect the parameters they control, or midi-on messages when triggering samples.

It's also the same size as an ipad and costs $200.

Dope? Dope.

[nowaysj]

Never used it, have watched since it's pretty fantastic introduction.

I'm not gonna lie, when I'm jamming in my studio, I'm applying vibrato and aftertouch to my pad controllers, which are not responsive to this behavior But I feel it, you know. The level of expressivity as a digital instrument is maybe unmatched. I have really thought about it.

If I could sell my pad kontrol for a decent price, this wouldn't be much more...

[SunkLo]

I know man the price is far too seductive. Jazzmutant had my expectations at a way higher price when I first saw this QuNeo. I figured a grand maybe.
This is exactly what everyone wishes they could do on pads. It's just intuitive expression. I do the same on keys too. They've got a small 2 octave pad keyboard that kind of covers that.

Here's the hipsterest introduction video you could ask for:



And more QuNeo:

[Crimsonghost]

I've messed around with one before. It was mapped to massive with the different "edges" of certain pads mapped to macro controls and whatnot. It was neat, and the pads felt good. If just imagine it would take a while to set up

You should also be able to find them for about $100-150 used.

[nowaysj]

If I recall, it can store scenes? A lot of upfront setup, but then pretty easy from there I'd imagine?

Can you describe the pads? How'd they feel relative to other pads, padkontrol, maschine, mpd's, mpk, mpc?

[Mr 50]

I was eyeing up a Quneo for a long time as it seemed to fit a lot of live needs, but after reading so many pages of unhappy customers and problems getting it to do what you want, I went for more reliable options.

Apologies to KM Instruments if this has been sorted now

[nowaysj]

What'd you go with, and briefly what was the common sort of assignment problem?

[Mr 50]

I was going to use it for the live setup, and mapping an N.I. F1 was the option I went with.

It's great to be honest, I have a script that makes it navigate Ableton fluently, that couple with another controller gives me an awesome, tactile and reliable setup. LED feedback is perfect as works as expected.

I don;t want to detract from the Quneo too much, it just seems there's a lot of gaps in what people want it to do and how easy it is to achieve that.

You can't argue that having velocity and XY sensitive pads is damn useful.