Announcing the Winners of the KMI QuNeo Video Contest!

1st Place - Lewis Keller, "QVC01"

"No sequencing or clips or quantization. But I kind of like sloppy. Triggering samples, sythns, arpeggiators and delays. Mostly custom Max4Live synths and samplers tuned to a just intonation scale from a Ben Johnston string quartet. Every pad has some X/Y modulation happening and most have subtle pressure things going on too. Just starting to imagine the QuNeo possibilities. Each pad can be like it's own little world."

2nd Place - Jason Brown

"I produced the music in Ableton Live and Logic 9 using one of my QuNeo, then broke the song into instrument groups and song sections arranged in Session mode as a mega-set. I then programmed 56 MIDI output tracks with 10 clips on each track (yep, that's 560 MIDI clips) to control all of the lights on 2 QuNeos. I set up a series of follow actions that trigger the lights to change at 4, 8, or 16 bars.

One QuNeo (my right hand) is being used mainly as a clip launcher while the other is mainly for FX (3 FX Macros with a wide variety of FX, also 8 instances of Sugar Bytes' awesome Effectrix) controlled by note on and pressure info. I also programmed a couple of virtual scratch trax I can ad-lib over the beat with. I am also dropping samples, whooshes, vocal snippets and filter sweeps while triggering different song parts on the fly. I am using the Ableton preset which I modified to get a little more out of, and two custom presets to control everything else. I have also created a video-trigger/FX controller config that I didn't show due to time restraints and copyright stuff (movie clips, visuals ,etc.), and I even have a custom preset built on one of my QuNeo that I use to control aspects of Photoshop CS5, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Flash, iTunes, and even Safari.

These 2 little magic tablets have replaced 7 controllers and where I used to always be running out of knobs, sliders, pedals and buttons to assign, now I am constantly trying to think of how I can possibly ever use all that I have now. Thank you for this awesome product. I look forward to more cool toys. Shot live with a Nikon D3200, edited with Final Cut Pro X, I recorded the performance in Ableton as I was playing and synced it to the video for better sound, and I shot the B-roll footage before the performance to showcase the lights and the 80+ track Ableton session."

3rd Place - Andrew Hintzen aka Taconip, "Swimming Lessons (remix)"

"Made with a Quneo and Ableton Live. The 16 pads are all mapped to a drum rack with one shot samples, the exception being the corner pad that is triggering a looped sample with the sample start being mapped to the long slider, allowing me to "travel" through the sample almost granularly. Two of the pads are latched so I could map their x-location to their pan without it jumping back to the center when I remove my finger. The vertical sliders control volume of different tracks, and the horizontal sliders control effect sends for a grain delay and reverb. Additionally, on the reverb slider, pressure is mapped to send the reverb into a feedback loop."

Honorable Mentions:

Thank you to all of the contest participants. Judging was a difficult process and we appreciate all the talent, hard work and effort that went in to making these videos. We are very impressed with all the videos that were submitted! Here are the rest of the entries: