Quad Cortex is incredibly powerful, but its configurability is still limited. This makes many “power user workflows” that are possible with other machines cumbersome or even impossible when it comes to controlling the unit, especially via MIDI, where you can’t take advantage of the full power of you…

I would recommend looking at Fractal Audio FM3/FM9 foot controller layouts. This essentially replaces the three fixed preset, scene, stomp QC modes with 8 footswitch layouts where any footswitch can do anything you want. These layouts are global with preset overrides so your footswitches can do simi…

Improving MIDI implementation has been requested before and has been a hot topic on the forum. If you do a search for specifically what you’d like to do via MIDI, there are a few workarounds that have been posted that may help you. Hopefully, now that plugin capability is underway, NDSP can turn it’…

Waaaaay too many requests in the forum for MIDI and expanded footswitch functions. Adding more is only muddying the waters at this point. Have a look through the top requests here: Feature Requests Suggest Quad Cortex features …

Separating stomp cc#s for each mode as a user suggested before is crucial. We might able to access to stomp engage/bypass via external Midi in all modes. Also separating engage & bypass “values” of stomp cc#s is so crucial in order to be able to sync toggle led states of external midi foot switches…

We already have this request, which addresses this issue! [image] Feat. Request: Make Hybrid Mode more like “Command center” on Helix Feature Requests Instead of having the top row just for stomps and the bottom row for scenes (as the soon to be updated hybrid…

Improve how to control QC: MIDI and switches

Quad Cortex Feature Requests

legzalez August 10, 2025, 1:33pm 6

We already have this request, which addresses this issue!

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Improve how to control QC: MIDI and switches

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