How to create blank 'Labels' for Scenes

Quad Cortex
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I know this has been requested somewhere, but like others I want to be able to create blank labels in Scenes, for Scenes that are unused.
One workaround that people have suggested, which I also use, is to use a full stop/period marker, so there’s nothing but a ‘.’ in the middle of the Scene label. This makes it look pretty uncluttered so it’s not a bad way of doing it but I’ve come across an improvement - which works on a Mac, so sorry if you’re a Windows user, you may have to find an equivalent.

What I’ve discovered is that if you’re using Cortex Control, you can add pretty much any character that is available on your keyboard to a Scene label. The computer keyboard has many more options than the QC keyboard, and the QC screen will take pretty much any of them, except the mighty ‘’ sign, if you have a Mac.

This is accessed by pressing Option + Shift + K at the same time (see below) and the beauty of it is, on the QC screen this just shows as a blank.

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On the Cortex Control screen it will look like this…

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which kind of looks like an , but on the QC you get this nice blank screen…

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I still think it would be nice to be able to select a grey or black background for unused Scenes though…

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Excellent trick, thanks a lot!
I also used . since the blanks stopped working.

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I’d actually really like it if they allowed us to name unassigned squares in Stomp mode.
This is because

  1. I always use Scene Mode, and rarely, if ever Stomp mode.

  2. But I want immediate access to the looper, which can only be accessed via Stomp mode (don’t start me on that) so I have to switch Modes (which I am NOT doing live, EVER, since I accidentally changed Presets during a gig while trying to do the stupid ‘change-modes-by-pressing-two footswitches-at-once-while-playing-live-oh-and-if-you-press-one-of-them-a-fraction-of-a-second-before-the-other-it-will-really-really-embarrass-you’ thing. So the only solution is to use Hybrid mode, and put Stomps on the top row.

  3. But I only need one Stomp, and I want to use the top row to trigger loops from an external looper pedal via Midi commands assigned to those footswitches.

  4. So it would be really handy to be able to write a label in the unassigned squares on the top row, to tell me what each one will do with the looper (eg play, stop etc)