One switch for two scenes

I searched around but did no find a thread that answers this question: is there a way to use one switch to toggle between two scenes? For example, I’d like to use the bottom row for scenes and the top row for individual effects. The E footswitch would be used to switch between scene A and E, the F for scenes B and F and so on, so forth. I even asked chat GPT and it answered that that was possible, but its instructions did now work :smiley:

ChatGPT:

Entering Scene Assignment Mode

  1. Ensure you are in Scene Mode
  • Press the MODE button until you are in Scene Mode, where each footswitch is assigned to a scene.
  1. Hold the Desired Footswitch
  • Press and hold Switch E (the one you want to use for toggling between Scene A and Scene H).
  • Hold it for about 2 seconds until the Scene Assignment Menu appears on the screen.
  1. Modify the Scene Assignment
  • In the menu that appears, you can:
    • Assign Scene A to Switch E.
    • Assign Scene H to the same Switch E.
  • The Quad Cortex will now treat it as a toggle function.
  1. Exit and Save
  • Press anywhere outside the menu or the back button to return to your normal Scene Mode.
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Currently not possible to use one switch for multiple scenes. HIGHLY requested.

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Fractal can do this easily since day-one; if this is an absolute need, then you might look into the FM3 or FM9. It would be awesome if QC had this…

Yeah, unfortunately this seems like one of the areas where QC is really lagging. I’m not sure if the in-unit switching is related to the similar limitations with MIDI, but it would be super cool if they would improve this.

Fortunately you can do it with an external MIDI switch. I’m still learning, but I got the MC6 pro and it works great. As posted elsewhere, the best use seems to be keeping the QC in stomp mode, so you have 8 stomp switches per preset, and using the external controller to switch scenes via MIDI. With the Morningstar you can assign scenes to toggle on switch press\release, and even send additional switching messages with other actions, like a double tap or long press, so one button on the Morningstar can cover a lot of ground.

It would be really nice to not have to get an external controller to take full advantage of this. It would also be really nice if the QC offered paging, so you could have 2 or more pages of stomp\scene combos in the same preset (which you can also do with the Morningstar.)

Frankly I’m a neophyte when it comes to MIDI but getting an external switcher was a worthwhile investment to expand the functionality of the QC and the leaning curve hasn’t been too bad.

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Just in case you can also do it with the small Doremidi FC one and its only ~25$. I use it to toggle Gigview.

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