How about something similar to the stadium focus feature on the Quad Cortex
Thoughts.
(I think) what is that?
Line 6’s Focus View on the Helix Stadium is a revolutionary touchscreen feature that simplifies tone editing by letting you morph between five different parameter settings (like sag, grit, or sweetness) for an amp or effect with a single finger movement, making it easy to find sweet spots and learn how parameters interact without complex knob twisting, acting as a visual and auditory guide to crafting your ideal sound.
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Not sure. I always felt that the QC is much easier to dial in than Helix where it took me forever to get an usable sound. So maybe it makes more sense there than on the QC.
I have to ask. Is there something that you’re not getting when setting up tones with the QC? It’s so easy to dial in.
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No not at all just thought it would be interesting dragging it across and around the screen see what tones turn up maybe something you were not looking for but a hey moment i can use that somewhere else.
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that would be cool to run with a Looper, unless you have 3 hands.
You could create a quasi-Focus mode on QC by linking parameters to an XP and sweeping thru them but it probably wouldn’t be quite as thorough or versatile.
From watching online demos, I do think the Stadium’s Focus feature is pretty interesting! Yes, dialing tones in the QC is easy, but you can only adjust one parameter at a time. I totally see the appeal of navigating the space between two or more “presets” for, say, an amp, just by swiping on the touch screen and perhaps running into a middle-point new tone that you would not have arrived at otherwise… It must be quite smooth for continuous parameters, but I wonder what happens with discrete parameters like a bright switch… probably you cannot help but get the sudden switch/audio interruption midway. Anyway, I think implementing this feature would work great in conjunction with the ability to have presets for individual devices (a very popular request). You could have a screen with a few nodes (the Stadium has 5) where you could assign presets. Then you would just drag your finger and get all the in-between tones between those presets. What’s more, what about if this could be done not only for individual block presets but for scenes! That is, each node can be assigned to a scene in your QC preset, and you can find “in-between” new scenes… Dealing with disabled/enabled blocks could be done by interpreting disabled blocks as if their mix value was 0, so that you can get gradual transitions from zero to hero. (I know, not that easy…) (I guess this could be a whole other request in itself!)
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Could also include in the same feature the ability to scroll through multiple captures of the same amp ie. when you have 20 or so captures of a amp instead scrolling through them be cool to just drag around the screen to the one you want.
Hmm… 
I kinda suspect this is how their amp models are created (as opposed to “static” captures): TINA visits a lot of configurations and the underlying neural network learns how to replicate them and also fill the gaps in between all of these static captures. 
It must take some considerable amount of compute time to train from all those static captures, so perhaps not something that could be done very smoothly in real time as this idea of scrolling between captures would imply… But still an intriguing proposition. I would imagine that all captures have a similar architecture, so, developing a real-time algorithm that “interpolates” between any two or more captures should not be insurmountable, and would lead to being able to create hybrid amps, etc. on the fly! Say I assign a capture of a Bassman on one end and that of a JCM on the other. With a quick scroll I could be anywhere between an American and a British crunch…