Keith McMillen QuNeo

As we know every musician should seek perfection, to reach that perfection you should keep up with the newest(with some exception, old "intruments - equipment" can be really incredible) and nicest things in the game, and most of all every beatmaker (music producer) should have a controller like Keith McMillen QuNeo

 QuNeo is the key to capturing creativity when and wherever it strikes. Lightweight, yet durable enough to tumble around in your backpack; simple to use, yet programmable beyond imagination – QuNeo is a must for musicians looking to get the most out of their controllers. With QuNeo’s dynamic playability and stunning LED visual feedback, bring the creative process off the screen and into your hands.
QuNeo offers a functionally elegant meld of the classic and the cutting-edge in music technology. Rooted in history with its 4×4 pad array, sliders, and rotary control, yet propelled into the future by our Smart Fabric sensors which sense pressure, position, and velocity. QuNeo will liberate your creative experience no matter how you choose to work.

Keith McMillen QuNeo, USB multi purpose pad controller, features Tactile Pads, Sliders, Rotary Sensors and Switches. Each of the 27 pads, sliders and rotary sensors are pressure, velocity, and location sensitive. Even the 17 switches respond to how hard you press. LED Light Feedback - variably diffusive elastomers with 251 multi-color LEDs, 16 square pads provide 127 levels of Velocity response, X-Y location and continuous pressure. 2 rotary sensors allow you to scrub, trigger, stretch, pinch and play phrases and sound files, manipulate continuous controllers and more . Each rotary sensor measures angle, pressure and distance from the center. 9 touch sensitive sliders can be mapped to fader and effects controls. LEDs within each slider act as VU meters. QuNeo is the size of an iPad (V1) and can fit in iPad accessories such as mic clips, stands and more. works with USB, MIDI (requires optional MIDI Expander #267967) or OSC and will communicate most music software environments right out of the box.

 

 I always recommend you the equipment that I post, but I never tell you where you can buy it, cause this is not an advertising, I'm not payed for this. But I do can tell you that Keith McMillen QuNeo costs about  €229 in Europe and $250 in U.S.A

The QuNeo ships without any software or documentation; a leaflet in the box gives download details for these, and also warns against using the device before running the installer. In fact, the QuNeo is MIDI class-compliant and will happily generate MIDI once you've plugged it in, although you're unlikely to get very far without the downloaded application templates and at least a cursory look through the manual. (The installer does contribute some DAW support, such as a controller script for Ableton Live.) Pressing pads at this point should, though, cause LEDs to come on: the QuNeo's presets generally default to MIDI 'local control on', meaning that control gestures are reflected in the LED displays.

 

If you like the idea of pressure pads as control inputs, have a fondness for flashing lights, and like controllers with decent MIDI intelligence, the QuNeo could be for you.