3rd Party plugins are not a good idea on this kind of board,
it will introduce more problems to the beginners here all around
and opens the platform for different problems A&H can’t fix.
And I gues the vendors of the plugins are not willing to give support for it.
And I doubt that this is possible anyway…
With all due respect to those who desire that. As I’ve always contended, this series, although capable of recording, is not first a recording console or serious DAW platform controller. That coming from someone who has been in recording too for over 40yrs. I’ve owned every or almost every major recording platform. The big ones that is.
If you want plugins galore then go from PT or other platforms and get all you want. This console was never meant for that.
To me, the logical progression is to put the 32 core into a qu-16 format. And as a part of that update, add some more minor bells and whistles that people have been asking for, like spectrograph overlay on eq, and HPF on mix outs. I think plugins on this platform is kind of asking for a lot.
Agree wrt plugins… the architecture wasn’t designed for it, so it would be nigh on impossible to implement well.
Why don’t they charge for the updates? Then people can get it if they desire and A&H can make money out of it… everyone’s happy! Obviously bug fixes etc. are covered in minor updates but I know I would happily have paid to update my Qu16 when they introduced DCAs etc…
Also, I think I recall the local dealer saying the Qu series had 1 or 2 unused processor cores (or something along those lines…?) - can anyone confirm or deny that? Wasn’t the reason for me buying the board but I do remember thinking it was interesting at the time… but I never verified it.
Forgot to mention SCRIBBLE STRIPS
“Forgot to mention SCRIBBLE STRIPS”
that is the Qu lines’ biggest downfall.
A&H knew the GLD line would lose sales to the GU line if it had scribble strips so that’s why it needs board tape and a sharpie 
My new console no longer needs board tape and a sharpie or funky magnets.
And of course the iPad app has colored channels (imagine that) not to mention a ton of other very intuitve features that I won’t go into here out of respect for A&H and QU users because I still loved my Qu24 and purple boxes.
They could have at least done a single 6 character strip much like Avid SC48. Didn’t have to have all the other info like the GLD and dLive has.
So where is the love?
It appears they are focusing 100% of their resources on the D-live.
What I want to know from all you Monday morning QUarterbacks whining about the “lack” of scribble strips:
How do you “update” a physical console to add scribble strips? I mean, they’ve given them to us in the app as well as adding custom layers.
Did you not notice they weren’t on the console when you bought it? Or are some of these posts from non-owners/users who just like to carp and cavil? Do you expect the Qu to be re-engineered to include them and your first generation desk to be replaced by the manufacturer. It seems that way sometimes…
I guess my decades of board tape on analog desks has given me a biased outlook. I’m fine with both the tape and the channel naming on the app and I’d just like to go on record as a satisfied user posting midstream in the typical loud minority of Internet bitch posts.
No offense…
Any talk about scribble strips is obviously about some sort of a second generation QU desk. Rest assured no one is expecting to get scribble strips magically on a firmware update.
I think my feelings have always been they should have been there from the beginning based on the time it came out. Even if it had added more to the price it would have made it worth it. That said, the way the layers are it’s not a big deal. Just not what you expect to see on a digital console.
the system was build for ease of use, so first incarnations of the system were straight forward easy usable mixing desks.
a lot of owners “misused” the consoles for tasks they where not intentionally made for.
But we all (Sound People) did this with all the other stuff we had at hand in the past and will do it in future.
I guess A&H learned a lot from the sucess of the QU series and will release a better system in the future, but at this moment in time, it is like it is
and it’s a very good system at an incredible low price with countless posibilities… only your imagination is the limit 
That said, boosting the ‘scribble strips’ on the App from 6 to even 8 characters would make a HUGE difference on readability.
When I decided to go for Qu I was pretty aware that I do not get fancy channel LCDs but have one physical fader per channel and still an area to place my tape. Second layer is hardwired anyway and I either go with custom or first layer, so I never missed something electronic here.
Totally understand the need for the QuPad/You/Control surfaces or consoles with less faders than channels.
If the Qu would have been designed to have scribbles, the Qu32 probably only had 9-15 faders enforcing to switch layers “constantly”. I still prefer to have all channels accessible at once, which makes the Qu somewhat unique in the market.
When will the update?
Or never!
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Soundcraft just updated their Si series… I’m sure AH could send something our way. I’d love to see an RTA underlay. The QU pad app, though very useful, seems unfinished.
Detune on an ADT FX patch would be nice.
I’d be willing to pay for updates that bring additional features.
One thing that I’m realy realy missing in all mixers out there is the ability to recall scenes from within a DAW. Years ago you where able to use sysex to dump a scene and then recall it from within a sequencer but all vendors have abandoned that.
Am I the only one who would love to have something like Elektron’s Overbridge to fully control and recall the Qu from within a DAW? I’d easily fork out €100 for a plugin that allows that! Within the Elektron community the Qu-Pac seems to be a favorite already; having an Overbridge like plugin - mainly for the control/recall part - would make it a killer combo.