Additional MIDI footswitches (more than 8)

Quad Cortex Feature Requests
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Hey guys.

Since I control all footswitches via Ableton during live shows and usually several blocks at the same time, I asked myself “why are only 8 blocks controllable and then only via the velocity value?”

The QC would be much more versatile if you could assign more than just 8 footswitches via midi. (And no! It doesn’t work with scenes, because I combine different blocks at different times)

Also programming changes would be so much easier if you could assign a midiNOTE (e.g. C2) directly to a block in the QC, regardless of the number of footswitches on the QC, instead of working with velocity values. It takes forever and is totally confusing. Especially because the values 0=Off / 127=On don’t work… When the midi command (independent of the velocity) is received, the footswitch is simply switched on or off. So you could do it via one note anyways.

I really like the Quad Cortex and I’m already using it for 2 years now but the competition does this whole programming thing much better than Neural…

So please, expand the amount for (digital) footswitches.

2

Pretty sure this has already been requested. The limit of 8 scenes or stomps has been a topic here before quite a few times

3

I agree regarding the number of MIDI foot switches… I would like to be able to repurpose the preset up/down buttons to send MIDI data (and disable the built-in preset up/down action).

I have just started experimenting with looping the QC MIDI back to itself to control things. The main 8 foot switches are usually linked to some other action, so I would rather have the two up/down buttons for MIDI to avoid conflict. With loopback, I could send commands so that the preset up button moves down and the down button moves up :slight_smile:

The other challenge with the main 8 foot switches is that, in preset mode, they will obviously take you to another preset. Since the QC MIDI mapping is specific to a given preset, this can cause you to lose your MIDI mapping if you are not manually placing the same mappings on all presets.