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Comment on Intel Mac mini, Panasonic plasma, Overscan solution by Eye Em

Eye Em — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:28:00 +0000

Took a lot of fiddling, but I finally got good timings for my Mac Mini to drive my Panasonic TH-50PX60U in 720p and 1080i without the annoying overscan. Here they are for the benefit of others! – IM

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720p Timings
Horizontal
Active 1248
Front Porch 120
Sync 80
Back Porch 200 (1648?)
Total 1648

Vertical
Active 698
Front porch 18
Sync 5
Back porch 31

Refresh rate 59.945

1080i Timings
Horizontal
Active 1888
Front Porch 104
Sync 48
Back porch 160

Vertical
Active 1054
Front porch 14
Sync 10
Back porch 46

Pixel Frequency 74.250

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by dallas

dallas — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:58:10 +0000

@eonomine I did know about changing the pad sensitivity on the QuNeo but didn’t mention it. Thanks for bringing it up! That’s a great feature. I had to add electrical tape to the inside of my MPD32 pads so it wasn’t great out of the box for me.

I have spent almost all of my time with the QuNeo so far (only a couple of hours total) working with the Ableton Live clip triggering preset so far and haven’t used it to trigger drums for more than a few minutes. Without changing the sensitivity I got the feeling it was usable for me, but I didn’t explore it enough to know more than that. I’ll have to try out the Akai emulation mode and see how it works for me. Thanks!

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by eonomine

eonomine — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:19:55 +0000

pad sensitivity is adjustable, in fact you can change it to emulate the feel of an akai.. first thing i did, i felt response was a bit dull out of the box as well. can’t help but feel you wrote this after all of 5 minutes after you got a quneo and didn’t bother to read the manual

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by mh

mh — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:01:13 +0000

i own both the quneo and the mpd24. nice review. one thing worth mentioning as well is the feel of the pads. The Quneo has hard, plasticky feeling pads that your finger can run smoothly across. The MPD has rubber pads which have more friction. Personally I prefer the feel of the MPD. However the Quneo is so far above the mpd in pad sensitivity and functionality. The touch faders on the quneo require you to press hard. The faders on the Akai are decent. I personally would use the quneo + an ipad or maybe some other controller which has faders/knobs. The portability of the quneo is also outstanding if you make music with a laptop. MPD is not really portable.

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by dallas

dallas — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:55:46 +0000

@robert The QuNeo is the new toy so I’m obviously enthusiastic about it. It’s not a clear choice, though. The MPD32 has almost no learning curve and has nicely spaced and well labeled controls. The QuNeo has a steep learning curve and no labeling at all. If you put in the time (which could be considerable), you’ll be able to do more with a QuNeo than you can ever do with an MPD32. Akai’s MPD line are targeted very much at people who want an MPC like interface for their music software and I think it does quite a nice job at that.

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by dallas

dallas — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:51:57 +0000

@Ryan In my limited time with the QuNeo I think I prefer my MPD32 pads. For how I use my pads in my live setup I think the QuNeo will work fine once I get used to them. I’ve spent a lot more time with my MPD pads. Also, I did have to open up my MPD32 and add some electrical tape to make the pads more sensitive like you can see in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZViS288WH4 Before I did that the pads were not sensitive enough.

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by robert

robert — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:30:03 +0000

while I think you have a great product in the quneo, i can’t help but think this review may be slightly too biased… just sayin

Comment on QuNeo vs Akai MPD32 by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:59:14 +0000

How do you find the pad sensitivity differs between the two?

Comment on Intel Mac mini, Panasonic plasma, Overscan solution by Buck

Buck — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:28:49 +0000

Steve’s trick worked great! The path to this setting on a Sony Bravia is:
Menu -> Settings -> Screen -> Display Area: Full Pixel

Set your Sys prefs to Overscan and you’re good to go!

Comment on Bicycles and stop signs by Jimmy C.

Jimmy C. — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:28:19 +0000

Ok well twice as long as 2 seconds is only 4 seconds! So your not really wasting any time. Stop trying to justify your law breaking. You know you are supposed to stop at stop signs yet you obviously to run right through them. Im not saying i hope you get hit by a car, but if it happens at a stop sign well you know what the cause was… your ignorance.