# Block Menu; can you only assign a footswitch in Stomp Mode?
**URL:** https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/block-menu-can-you-only-assign-a-footswitch-in-stomp-mode/9834
**Category:** Quad Cortex
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/block-menu-can-you-only-assign-a-footswitch-in-stomp-mode/9834 "2023-02-01T19:25:15Z")
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### Author:  [@littlespaceman](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/littlespaceman)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/block-menu-can-you-only-assign-a-footswitch-in-stomp-mode/9834/1 "2023-02-01T19:25:15Z")
As I continue my journey with the QC I keep coming across things that leave me feeling a bit š§; this time itās the fact that when you are in the Block Menu page (ie you have the Block edit window open) and you want to assign a footswitch to that block, the only way to do it is to be in Stomp Mode already, or to cycle through the modes until you are - and this comes with a health warning, because as Iāve repeatedly found out to my cost, cycling through the modes can sometimes lead you to change Scene accidentally, or worse change Preset (depending which mode youāre in) if you hit the Preset/Bank Down button a split second earlier than the Tempo button. And of course if you change Preset by mistake, you then lose all the changes to the settings youāve made (does the Undo button reverse this and keep the changes youāve made?)
Either way, it seems like a major oversight that you can only assign a footswitch when in Stomp mode; if you are editing a block, is there any reason why the option to assign isnāt present in the other modes? Am I missing something here?
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### Author:  [@HonestOpinion](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/HonestOpinion)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/block-menu-can-you-only-assign-a-footswitch-in-stomp-mode/9834/2 "2023-02-01T19:55:33Z")
I donāt think you are missing anything. That is just an example of a terrible programming āfeatureā. One that should probably be fixed. Makes no sense. At least you can work around it by simply changing mode.
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### Author:  [@littlespaceman](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/littlespaceman)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/block-menu-can-you-only-assign-a-footswitch-in-stomp-mode/9834/3 "2023-02-01T20:21:31Z")
Thatās what I thought, sadly. I know itās an easy narrative to say that some people love to complain just for the sake of it - especially so soon after a āmassiveā update like 2.0 landed - but to be clear I am trying to be objective and constructive here by raising these sort of issues. But I am genuinely surprised that this sort of thing hasnāt been noticed or addressed at this stage. Surely these would be easy ābugsā to fix alongside the bigger stuff in a firmware update. In the post-honeymoon period with my QC my feelings about it are much more measured; I still think it sounds fantastic, but the frustrations of oversights like this temper the enjoyment I get out of it more and more (and I am starting to realise why the salesman in the shop I got mine from actually told me heād sold his after a while - not a good advert for the QC)
As for the changing mode workaround even that seems laden with potential for error, so not at all a silver-bullet solution unfortunately; see my post here
> [@Accidentally select Preset Down when changing modes](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/accidentally-select-preset-down-when-changing-modes/9836):
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> Iāve checked and canāt see that this post exists already, but I canāt be the only one (and I donāt have big feet!) I often find that when I try to change modes using the Preset Down and Tempo footswitches simultaneously, I hit the Preset Down down a fraction of a second earlier than the Tempo one, and accidentally change Presets. Depending on what mode Iām in, best case this changes the Bank, causes the LED against the new Preset under the same relative footswitch that the previous Preset was ā¦
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### Author:  [@MP\_Mod](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/MP_Mod)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/block-menu-can-you-only-assign-a-footswitch-in-stomp-mode/9834/4 "2025-08-12T15:20:25Z")