By J.O.BEATS
Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:15 am
Continue to miss the point… 
The added capabilities with the new OS features are indeed impressive. At least on paper. Navigating between them without dedicated knobs for the essentials is a whole nother story. I wouldn't call it a nightmare, but fast and effective it is not. In a, you know, musical instrument, this actually matters.
I still struggle to grasp how they could fail to give the Key 61 16 qlink knobs, but even then it would still benefit immensely from having some programmable knobs independent of the qlink system, or at the very least a proper MIDI implementation for external control if they can't be arsed to provide the knobs themselves. A button for jumping in and out of the mod matrix would help a lot too. As would replacing the shift button so that it can be be held with a different hand than the one turning the data wheel. (Key 37)
As an example to illustrate, say you want negative values for filter envelope and keytracking. As of now that would have to be done in the mod matrix. This means a lot of jumping between the mod matrix and the filter section to get things to sit right and it's extremely tedious for an operation that could be done pretty quickly with a more sensible UI.
This may seem like nitpicking, but the need for a well thought out workflow doesn't magically disappear with added fancy features and complexity, it actually increases, and so every little thing that could help with relatively little effort and cost should be taken into serious consideration. Looking forward to new hardware that better addresses these issues among others.
... I'll never look at that duck the same.