Hey Guys
Complete newbie here… day one with the quad cortex, so please go easy!
I’m sure this is a simple thing, or something I am fundamentally doing wrong, but
I would like to use scenes mode, and have each new scene represent a new song in the bands setlist. ie 1A is song 1, 1B is song 2, etc…
And within each of those songs have the 8 x footswitches provide me completely different sounds that I can click through. ie.
1A (song 1) will have A as the intro sound, B as the verse sound, C as the chorus sound etc etc.
Yet currently when I do this, if I make a change to say the amp on sound B it changes the amp on sound A…
For example I would like to have a Brit clean amp on bank A, and a bogner lead on bank B…
So: welcome
What you use for the songs are not scenes, they are presets. The scenes are the 8 footswitches you use for the different sounds in each song.
For a parameter to only be affected by the scene, you have to tell the QC to do so, which is, if I remember correctly (as I usually use Cortex Control, not the QC itself), a long press on the particular parameter. A small icon will appear on this parameter telling you that now, it will be affected per scene, and not per preset.
Default behaviour is that a parameter is changed for the whole preset.
Hey @gnumarco Thanks for your response. I did initially try that, but the issue with presets I found was a slight cut of audio as you click between the banks… was hoping to avoid that for more seamless transition
There is a cut between presets indeed, but not between scenes. What I do is I use 1 preset per song, and I use the 8 scenes inside a preset for all the sounds I need for a song. This way I can change sound inside a song without having any cut. Then I switch preset for the next song and, unless you have a very tight transition between 2 songs, you will not notice the cut.
There are many ways to accomplish what you are looking for but some come with limitations. Most use a preset for a song and use scenes for individual parts of that song kind of what you were referring to. Using scenes allows gapless switching between tones/fx etc. You can also use multiple amps, drives and FX blocks on one preset and have them enabled/disabled or settings modified per scene. Presets currently don’t support gapless switching so there would be gaps between switching presets and not scenes etc. Good luck and welcome!
Also, don’t forget to set the behavior for scenes within settings and explained in more detail within the current manual. This essentially allows you to control how scenes work when modifying individual parameters within scenes.
Seconded. Once you’re inside the parameters for a particular block, long press on the bypass icon for that block. From here, you can turn the block off and on per scene.
NOTE: Even if a block is bypassed, it’s still adding to the overall CPU load within that preset. There’s plenty of CPU available to work with, but don’t add more blocks to your preset than you plan on using.
