QuNeo 3D Multi-Touch Pad Controller

Why so few reviews? It's probably because people hate to "close", as I do. First the good news. This is the most versatile and original set of pads you can imagine, it's not locked in to one DAW or setup. Now the bad news: same thing. It's not locked in, so you have to map it. There are some good presets for a handful of programs, like two for Live, and for Tractor and for Logic, and Reason, and drum pad mode, and you fill in the details.It can output one or 4 note-ons with velocity (one per corner) for each of 16 pads, and map pressure to a selectable MIDI Continuous Controller (CC) in each corner (grid mode), or (in Drum Mode) map two CCs in x-y mode across the pad, and a single CC for pressure. Each pad can be either in Grid or Drum Mode. They light up automatically in colors, or you can send MIDI messages to directly control the lights. The various sliders and rotaries add a lot of possible CC messages you can choose(with the included editor), and some of the surfaces can be assigned multiple banks. That all together is a preset. There are 16 preset memories, and the editor can save/load them to disk.There are options like "return CC value to zero" or "stay where released" for each sensor, and thresholds, sensitivity, ceilings, all the good stuff. It's really something, a something you have to integrate with your setup, and the bad news is that it takes creative planning and then using their minimalistic and confusing editor to set it all up. Some people complain that there aren't enough ready-to-go configs. Others complain that the company has not released enough of the interface specs so they could control the Quneo from their own programs and scripts. For the Quneo to be easy to integrate would require that the company put as much brainpower into the editor as they put into the hardware. And that hasn't happened.But here's the bottom line. You can spend close to a hundred bucks for just a lightweight toy pad-thing with velocity sensing. ALL pads react to "touch" that way. But the Quneo also reacts to pressure, in so many clever ways. I use it mostly for percussive sounds in drum mode, 16 pads in a bank, with note+velocity on the hit, then pressure ("aftertouch") emits MIDI CC 11 (Expression), and the X-Y raises mod wheel values when I roll my finger up, and "foot controller" (MIDI CC 4) when I roll my finger to the right, and drop them both to 0 when I release. I use the sliders to control volume on 4 MIDI channels, and the big horizontal slider to control Pan. One of the round pads I use as a sustain (CC 64) "pedal". This is a very simple setup, copy-pasted from pad to pad, but it's very useful.The point is this: you can make the Quneo do a LOT more than that (they are also coming out with new firmware soon). But given that it costs only a hundred bucks more than a toy pad-thing, and is cheaper than a serious set of pads, I think that even if you do nothing more than the above with it, and even if the company isn't exactly on the front line of customer service, and even though the little micro-USB jack is ridiculous, you'll have a good thing. The pads' response is very programmable, they really feel great, the Quneo itself is very sturdy (see Beer and 2 story drop test on YouTube). You'll find all sorts of uses for it.One thing I don't believe is practical is to expect the Quneo to replace a Mackie Control type fader array. If you already have faders, continue to use them, the Quneo is for different purposes, like clip launching, being a tactile modeling clay type interface for a softsynth, controlling just a few specialized mixer parameters, etc.As to the micro-USB jack, get a couple of better cables, and, preferably before one breaks off, attach a small plate, say 1" by 1/2", to the bottom of the Quneo sticking out under the plug so it can't be wiggled or snapped off when you put it down on an uneven surface. Then it's fine.It's a great little unit that opens up a lot of possibilities. It's like our brains, they say, even at 1/100th of potential are OK. It doesn't have to be plug-and-play for EVERYTHING immediately.

This was easy to set up. Just plug in and you are ready. It was confusing to figure out what each buttons purpose was as there wasn't any directions. I couldn't figure out how to personalize it, but it worked great. Its sensitive to the touch so the harder you touch it the louder the instruments play. Really great buy!

I was so excited to get my quneo after everything I heard. It would make life as a traveling, live, electronic musician a dream. It would make producing an intuitive workflow... that's what I was led to believe.I am using QuNeo with Ableton Live and so I started with the clip launching mode, this worked fairly well and intuitively with few issues until I decided I wanted to try the drum rack, I used the Coma button to switch modes seemlessly as i was led to believe it would be and it wasnt terrible. The pads i hit didnt seem to trigger logically corresponding pads on the drum rack but i just had to rearrange the drum rack on ableton to solve that, no big deal but then I tried to go back to clip launching mode. It looked like everything was back to normal with all the clip slots illuminated but each one i pressed just turned off a light either making no sound (not launching clips) or sometimes carrying over from the drum mode one or two, but not all of the drum rack sounds.Often when I turned on ableton the quneo would not be visible, or if I switched projects and I would have to relaunch the program (or as tech support recommended turn off the controller and turn it back on in the preferences menu, which I'll admit worked a good 30% of the time). Usually trying to close Ableton or switch projects would result in the program crashing.tech support said that there might be a few bugs (no s***) and that they didnt seem to exist as much when people programmed their own settings into quneo so I decided to try that, I watched all the youtube videos on the coma mode and how to reprogram the controller and jumped into the project. It didnt work. It less then worked, now QuNeo doesnt respond at all, it won't let me do any new mappings, the best i get is light from the faders, I am struggling to revert to the settings that at least worked to a slightly usable level before back but I can't seem to get it working. No clip launching, no drum rack. just cool looking lights on the faders.I would love so much for this machine to be all that it's hyped to be and I'm hoping that I just have defunct programming so that it can become what everyone raves about but as it stands I am not impressed. I definately could not trust this thing for a performance without something changing. Tech support is trying to help but so far my problems have just gotten worse the more I tinker.This isn't necessarily a bad product, maybe i'll change my review later if I can find a way to work out the bugs on this thing or if KMI offers some updated software but I can't imagine these problems are completely unique to me, and think you should know the bad with the good before spending $200 and countless hours on a new production tool.

I use this mostly with Reason, and while the default Reason preset is okay, I'm digging in with making my own along with a custom Remote template. Responding to X/Y on the pads, you can use them like virtual knobs if you want, changing parameter values on synths, etc. I'm so sorry I waited so long to finally buy this. As a musician with limited space and that likes to be mobile, this is an excellent solution.The cable it ships with is garbage, if I barely bump it from beneath the Quneo resets. Thankfully I have many micro USB cables around. I did kinda like the KMI-branded cable. Oh well.

We love this little controller! Please note that it may NOT be good for instrumentation, in our opinion. As you really have to press to get a trigger to fire. That said, we are using it for live sound in improvisational theatre and it is AMAZING for that!

Absolut innovatives und geniales Musikinstrument. Benutze es vor allem als Drum-Pads, und zum Fingerdrummen ist es schon einiges angenehmer und präzier als z.B. das Akai MPD-24, und ist sehr sensibel mit den Sensoren beim Anschlag. Aber man die Pads auch nutzen um 3 verschiedene Steuersignale an Synthesizer zu senden: Druck und Fingerpositionen links/rechts und oben/unten, damit kriegt man geniale Klänge hin. Einziger Wermutstropfen ist die Verwendung von MIDI: 128 Stufen sind einfach zu wenig, man verschmerzt's, aber ich will einfach mehr Auflösung haben, mindestens 14 bit (16384 Stufen). Es gibt schon den Rohmodus mit 1024 Stufen aber der ist aufwändig zu bedienen. Desweiteren ist USB-MIDI bezüglich der Latenz murks, was man ganz gut merkt, wenn man Realtime-Linux (RT_PREEMPT) verwendet, da ist der Jitter schon spürbar. Mit dem MIDI-Expander und einer guten Soundkarte klaptt das zumindest einiges besser. Ich bin trotz dieser Einschärnkungen dennoch super happy mit dem Gerät, so für einen kleinen Spassjam unterwegs Leute beindrucken ist das Ding genial.

Complet, entièrement assignable, ce contrôleur répond parfaitement à mes attentes, un vrai régal. intégré dans Live ou bitwig. 0 voir ce que donneront les pads dans la durée. Compatible win/mac/linux sans pilote.

Pretty happy with it, was 1/3 cheaper than anywhere else too. Shame how hard the wireless rogue add-on is to find these days

Très satisfait du quneo vraiment unique comme devices. Je le recommande même au débutant.A essayer d'urgence c'est vraiment un bon produit.