Hello all,
I haven’t seen this posted yet — if it has, please point me to it — but I think Hybrid mode is almost perfect, except it’s not really built for the QC Mini yet (imo).
Currently, Hybrid mode splits Scenes and Stomps (or Presets) across the top and bottom rows. On the full QC that makes sense, but on the Mini with its page of four switches, it doesn’t translate well. Instead, why not give us the option to put four Scenes (or Presets or Stomps) on Page 1 and the other four of the hybrid mode on Page 2?
For my use case, I’d have four Scenes on Page 1, then flip to Page 2 for Stomps that I can also call via MIDI from an external controller (I’m using an M-VAVE Chocolate Plus — slim enough to sit right in front of the Mini on my Rockboard 2.0 and works great). Having Stomps share a row on every page doesn’t make sense modally when you’ve only got one row to work with.
Anyone else on the Mini feel like this would make Hybrid mode way more usable? Curious if I’m the only one wanting this or if it’s been requested before.
I agree with you that this horizontal arrangement is weird for the Mini. I would take your solution a step further–users should just be able to arrange Hybrid mode any way that they want, including adjusting the 4 scene / 4 stomp ratio.
I don’t have a Mini (yet…?), but my preferred arrangement would be to have 3 scenes and 1 stomp on Page 1 of a preset. I would not want to be switching preset pages in the middle of a gig:
If this arrangement can be made for the Mini, then it follows that the standard QC should do this as well. …Which is something that people have asked for among all of the footswitch reassignment requests.
Totally agree! I didnt even think of that but due to the page switching, we should have the option of assigning any foot switch to anything in Hybrid mode on the Mini. Thinking about your modification even more, I think having something like a delay on one of the page 1 footswitches would be ideal for me too. Prob wouldnt even need the MIDI controller if I was able to assign single switches like that.
I understand the idea behind this feature request. But I would argue that it is just a workaround to a bigger problem, which is Hybrid Mode itself. Which also isn’t great on the QC. Right now, it throws two modes together, forcing you to stick to it. This was not the case before Hybrid Mode was introduced, as you can freely switch between the other 3.
What we really need are freely assignable FS. This is a much requested feature and would improve both the QC and the QC mini a lot.
I get it. Coming from the Helix world, Command Center is incredible. I wish we had something like that on QC but I got the mini knowing that it did not have this feature.
I pretty much agree with all the above but imagine how much better the QC would be if all foot switches included a Long Press function as requested for a very long time now.
This all leads back to before Hybrid mode came out when I said it would be better to just have every foot switch assignable to either Stomp, Scene or Preset. That way, every user can customize it how they want.
Hybrid mode as it is now seems like a very clumsy way to go about it. It should have just been an option on each switch.
