I use my Quad Cortex live as part of a hybrid pedalboard, mostly in Stomp Mode. I have one core rig that stays essentially the same throughout the entire show: the same blocks, routing, footswitch layout and analog pedals. One output goes to a real Princeton without amp modelling, while another goes to FOH with amp modelling.
The problem is that some parameters need to change from song to song — most importantly tempo for synced delays, but sometimes delay subdivision, feedback, reverb settings, or another individual parameter.
Currently, the obvious way to store these changes is to create separate presets for each song. But this creates 20 copies of what is essentially the same pedalboard. If I later change a drive setting, replace a delay, tweak my amp model, change routing, or reorganize the stomp layout, I then have to make that same change across every song preset.
It would be incredibly useful to have a Master Rig / Global Preset concept with per-song overrides.
For example:
Master Rig – Live Board
- complete signal chain and routing
- stomp assignments
- amp/cab settings
- default delay/reverb settings
Song 1
- BPM: 82
Song 2
- BPM: 104
- Delay feedback: 38%
Song 3
- BPM: 76
- Delay subdivision: dotted 1/8
Everything that isn’t explicitly overridden would continue to inherit its value from the Master Rig.
If I changed the amp, drive settings, routing or footswitch layout in the Master Rig, all songs would immediately inherit that change, while their song-specific overrides would remain intact.
Ideally, these song states could also be arranged freely in a setlist without duplicating the underlying preset.
This would make the QC behave much more like a real pedalboard for players who use one core rig throughout a show, rather than forcing a “one independent rig per song” workflow.
It could potentially build on the ideas already discussed around Global Device Presets / linked presets, but with a higher-level Master Rig + Song Override structure.
For live players using tempo-synced delays in particular, simply being able to store a different BPM for every song while keeping one globally editable rig would already be extremely useful.