# Modes: Am I crazy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Quad Cortex\ **Created:** [April 11, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859 "2026-04-11T03:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dlabrecqoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dlabrecqoe](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/dlabrecqoe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/1 "2026-04-11T03:23:57Z")
I’ve been living in Scene Mode. Tonight I finally decided to try using momentary switching for an effect and so embraced Hybrid Mode for the first time. My first impression: this is incredibly limiting! Am I nuts? Or if you build a preset using Hybrid Mode, you’ve now committed all your _other_ presets to that same mode, _unless_ you _manually_ switch to the _one mode_ you haven’t used when you set up Hybrid Mode? In my case I combined Stomp and Scene Modes, and now I have no access to Scene Mode at all! That’s how all my other presets are set up! Like 50 of them! Many of them with more than four scenes! Tell me it isn’t this limiting—or at the very least that there’s a work-around so that I can have Stomp/Scene Hybrid Mode _and_ Scene Mode available during a gig without having to _build and unbuild_ hybrid mode every time I need to switch into and out of it! Can you tell I don’t hang around here much? 🫩 ---
**Author:** ![xush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/unity.neuraldsp.com/xush/32/5100_2.png) [@xush](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/xush)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 3:29am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/2 "2026-04-11T03:29:04Z")
We feel your pain! I did the exact same thing, switched from Scene mode to Hybrid Scene/Stomp purely for the momentary feature. It’s a pain. The only real workaround is a MIDI-extended true hybrid mode where and external midi controller expands what’s available in whatever combinations you desire (still limited to 8 Scenes and stomps max though). We’ve been begging for switching and midi improvements for years- none seem forthcoming so best bet is to find a midi controller that does what you need ---
**Author:** ![dlabrecqoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dlabrecqoe](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/dlabrecqoe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 4:07am UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/3 "2026-04-11T04:07:44Z")
Copilot gives me the impression that it’s a logic problem pretty much embedded in the hardware, IIUC. Hopefully, that is not the case. These AIs are wrong at least as often as they’re right in my experience. I was also told that a MIDI controller footswitch could do the momentary thing, pure and simple. In Scene Mode. Sound right? ---
**Author:** ![jamsden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/unity.neuraldsp.com/jamsden/32/1607_2.png) [@jamsden](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/jamsden)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/4 "2026-04-11T12:50:21Z")
What I did was use an MC8 for controlling 8 scenes and left QC in stomp mode for 8 stomps. But this still wasn’t adequate because my patch needed more than 8 stomps. MIDI doesn’t address that limitation. This has stopped me from using QC for live gigs because of the footswitch limitations. I still use it for acoustic gigs though. I really like the form factor, and the tones and effects are perfectly adequate. But the footswtch limitations are a real barrier to use for me. What I’d like to see is: 1. Ability to use any footswitch for any function 2. Ability to map a footswitch to multiple controls, 3. Ability to map footswitch to max/min values for other parameters. 4. No 8 stomp limitation, MIDI should support as many stomps as you need in your patch 5. MIDI control of any parameter or group of parameters 6. Tap, hold and double tap on every footswitch 7. Footswitch layouts instead of modes - global and with preset overrides Helix and FM9 provide good models for footswitch control. It would be great if QC had similar capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![SelfTitledLP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@SelfTitledLP](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/SelfTitledLP)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/5 "2026-04-11T22:12:40Z")
You really gotta stop with Copilot haha. You cannot use a midi controller to randomly do momentary on the QC. Yes some midi controllers can act as momentary switches, but you can’t just do it in whatever mode you want ---
**Author:** ![dlabrecqoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dlabrecqoe](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/dlabrecqoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/6 "2026-04-12T14:59:01Z")
So do we even know if the hardware has the capability of doing momentary switching in scene mode? (If the firmware were developed to support it.) Obviously the switches can do it. But is the underlying physical architecture a roadblock? ---
**Author:** ![SelfTitledLP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@SelfTitledLP](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/SelfTitledLP)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/7 "2026-04-12T15:57:25Z")
The only people that could answer that are the designers. Not some Microsoft AI that is always incorrect ---
**Author:** ![dlabrecqoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dlabrecqoe](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/dlabrecqoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/8 "2026-04-12T16:26:23Z")
Right. Which is why I’m asking here, hoping someone has heard from the people who know. ---
**Author:** ![SelfTitledLP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@SelfTitledLP](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/SelfTitledLP)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/modes-am-i-crazy/21859/9 "2026-04-12T16:38:39Z")
No one has unfortunately