I’m considering buying Nano Cortex, but I’ve heard that since 2.0 it has a 60ms delay between switching presets. That would be a deal breaker for me, unless it’s possible to, for example, reprogram the footswitch buttons to toggle specific effects like delay or overdrive without completely switching the preset.
Is something like that possible, and would it help with a delay, or does that count as a preset switching anyway?
The terminology can be a little confusing: Don’t think of a preset as one singular sound—think of it as a room that holds all the gear you need to achieve all the tones within a given song, project, style, etc. How you specifically use it will be up to you, but here are some possible routes you could go, depending on your needs:
If you play in a band or project that requires a lot of really unique sounds from song to song, or within certain songs, you could make a PRESET for each song and within each song preset, make SCENEs for the different sections of a given song preset (Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Solo)
If you don’t need that fine of control from song to song, you could make one PRESET that will cover all the sounds you need for your project, and make SCENEs for each unique sound you need (Basic Clean, Clean Delay, Clean Chorus, Crunch, etc.)
If you want to go even more basic than that, you could make a PRESET that, like before, covers all the sounds you need for a project, but instead of using scenes to swap between different sounds, use STOMP mode to assign individual effects to footswitches, essentially turning your QC into a pedalboard.
There’s also HYBRID mode, which essentially gives you half of SCENE mode and half of STOMP mode.
Switching between scenes, or activating/deactivating stomps, does not have any sort of noticeable delay. Hope that’s helpful to you!!
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Really great explanation!! The only but is that would possible on a quad cortex but the Nanocortex doesn’t work like that.
Dmitry.savyuk I am using the Nanocortex and this 60 ms are a pain… But until hopefully is fixed, what I do and it works. Just pressing slightly before of the change to compensate..
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Daaaaang, sorry about that… I didn’t watch which section I was in!! 
I don’t think there’s a way to toggle particular effects on or off. You have to entirely change presets.
A reddit user showed me this hack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTKrhL7j7Kc
It’s possible to use an expression pedal to bypass effects, and it doesn’t count as a preset switch
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