Can I configure a foot switch to toggle A/B

Quad Cortex
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Some modellers I have owned in the past have allowed me to toggle a foot switch A/ B which has been useful say, for when I want to switch from Fender clean / Marshall core tones… I am sure you can do this with splitters too but I want to know whether the foot switches can be configured to toggle … or not. I cannot see evidence of this is the manual.
Thanks all

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Huh? You can program the amp sims to change with a foot switch on the QC, yes. If you’re asking about toggling an amp channel, then you would need an additional device since the QC doesn’t toggle amp switches on a physical amp.

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Ok thanks for that, I’ll try again…. Some modellers allow a single foot switch to have a dual role… for example the default setting might be a Fender DLX, and when the same foot switch is pressed again, the foot switch toggles to a second amp, say a Marshall… same foot switch different amp. I recall the old Atomic AF12 had this dual configuration capability which basically doubled the flexibility of the foot switch.
Hope that’s clearer.

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You could certainly do that using Scenes but it would require two footswitches.

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Yes this is possible afaik. Assign both amps to the same switch. Manually turn one of them off by clicking on it and hitting the bypass button. Now that switch will toggle those two amps.

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Yup, the above is correct. You can even assign multiple (more than two blocks) to a single stomp switch and flip the block combinations you want by saving the preset with the proper active/bypass state on the blocks. Make sure you are in a mode that allows stomp usage and that your assignment is to a stomp switch. If you are in a scene/stomp hybrid mode, for example, make sure you assign the blocks to a stomp footswitch, not a scene footswitch.

You can use scenes instead of a stomp to switch between amps as an alternative as @PickinPete indicated. By “two switches” he means each scene requires its own switch. Scene “A” might have amp1 active and amp2 bypassed, and scene “B”, amp1 bypassed and amp2 active. The advantage of using scenes is that it makes it easy to switch not just between two amps but multiple amps. For example, a clean, crunch, and solo amp model. Scenes also allow you to, for example, use a single amp block but modify multiple parameters between scenes such as ‘Drive’, ‘Treble’, ‘Bright’ switch, etc…

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