Can block settings within a scene be copied to a different scene in the same preset?

Quad Cortex
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Sorry if this is obvious to some. I’m a new QC Mini owner and found that I would like to make slight variations to a block within a preset. It seems to me that copying block settings from one scene to another should be an easy copy past function, but it always seems to use the default, and not modifed settings. What am I missing?

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When you activate scene functions for a block parameter (long-press on it until the ‘ABCD’ icon appears next to it), all scenes will have whatever parameter value that was there at the moment you activated scenes.

From there, it’s up to you to go into each scene and change the parameter.

For example, let’s assume you put a phaser modulation block in there and want to activate scenes for the speed:

  • Prior to scene activation: speed set to 40%
  • Scenes activated
  • Scene A: speed 40%, manually change to 20%
  • Scene B: speed 40%, manually change to 50%
  • Scene C: speed 40%, manually change to 70%
  • …and so on

There shouldn’t be any need for using copy/paste for Scene settings; otherwise you would simply be saving the same parameters over and over.

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OK. If I’m understanding what you’re saying, then If I had a number of changes to the stock block setting then I’d need to make the changes to the scene, then make that the new default scene so that I could begin from that point for new scenes?

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No, I’m stating the opposite… For parameters that you Scene-activate, you have already designated a “default” value that will remain that way until you go in and make the individual change for that Scene.

For Scene-activated parameters, just move through the Scenes and set the value where you like. You don’t have to make a new default.

For stuff that you intend to keep at the same value for the entire preset–“I want the Bass the knob to remain at 6 inside the Soldano amp at all times” for example–then don’t Scene-activate it.

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Ok, I get that. So I thought there was a “make this the default scene” option. How does that relate to this workflow?

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The default scene is the scene that is active when you first call up the preset.