While I agree that they don’t HAVE to fulfill feature requests as the product is sufficiently mature and very capable.
AND it’s kinda smart not to refresh an old product so A&H (and others) can force people to buy newer hardware.
I think A&H should DEFINITELY do a major release for the QU series that enables many of the most sought after features. That is for the good of the community and it solidifies that A&H isn’t going to forget its users (iLive anyone?).
There are limitations, you can’t buy a x32 and make an software upgrade to a midas pro 2.
True.
There comes a point that if you need more you have to pay more.
True.
The qu series are at the end of processing.
Not necessarily. There are some good tweaks and variations on existing features which could be implemented without a lot of engineering time and with the processing available.
@/zfigz
Sadly I’m afraid it’s becoming the ugly stepchild. Or a better metaphor the problem when new products emerge much like older children feeling neglected when the new baby arrives.
It would be nice if they came out with firmware 2.00, adding a few of the requested features, just to tidy things up. New purchases would have firmware 2.00. For marketing, they could even call it QU-(16/24/32/SB/Pac)v2 Edition.
Yes I’d love to see a version 2.0 with the remaining requests added. However, the QU-PAD is already quite a comprehensive app that has a very quick workflow. Some of the newer products have more features (particularly the new Soundcraft UI24R) and I feel Allen & Heath need to do a bit of catching up. However, I would expect they are putting all their focus into getting the SQ-MixPad fully functional as its missing a LOT of its features or into developing new products!?
I would personally love one of the SQ mixers in a QU-PAC format. Maybe we’ll see an SQ-PAC in the future!?
What are you really gaining having an SQ PAC?
QUPac likely does everything you need for that purpose.
The extra processing features, regardless I’m going to let the SQ
series mature a bit, maybe by then there will be an SQ Pac version.
For the time being my Qu Pac suits me fine with no problems.
