Adding MIDI to my Quad Cortex setup
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- I added an Ampere Control 4-button MIDI controller to my Quad Cortex setup. I'm liking this setup, which gives me dedicated buttons to switch to scene mode, stomp mode, gig view, and my looper.
(excuse the tube socks, this video was recorded for a few friends, one of which convinced me this would be useful to others! 😉)
You can run in hybrid mode and have 8 scenes (4 on QC, 4 on MIDI controller) and 4 stomps (QC) available at all times if you don't need a looper in a given preset.
Or you can eat up 1 stomp for the looper (QC) and then control it from the QC while still being able to flip scenes stomps from the MIDI controller. You might lose 1 button on the MIDI controller but then you'd still have a mix of any 3 scenes or stomps (in any combination) you could trigger in addition to the 4 scenes/stomps on the QC.
That might be a very flexible/powerful setup.
Depending on the flexibility of that MIDI controller, if you swapped your EXP pedal into it and used MIDI expression control, you might be able to add something like tuner on heel down (Morningstar controllers support different "actions" in the EXP ports) where you send a MIDI message to bring up the tuner and then send it again once you move off. Don't know if that unit supports such things but might be worth a look. I will be doing some videos on QC MIDI control with Morningstar controllers soon, but I think any MIDI controller greatly expands the usability of the device. Looking forward to some MIDI enhancements in the 2.x series of releases. Best of luck with the new setup.
Some great ideas here. I will experiment a bit.
@@bscheirman Many other combinations possible as well - just depends on the balance of scenes vs stomps that you need. But I'm sure you can find something that will work well for you!
I'm doing Bluetooth MIDI with a CME WIDI Master plugged into the QC and controlling it from my iPad (programming Buttons in ForScore) to change presets, scenes, open gig view, etc. I don't use the looper much but that is a cool idea to have a dedicated switch for it if you do.
Wow, that's a great use of a MIDI controller. Wish I could figure out how to do that with my Airstep.
i HAD SAME PROBLEMS WITH THAT LOOPER. Ended up selling it, something is wrong with it, but its a great concetpt in a small package, pity its not working good.
If only QC could assign parameters to MIDI events the way NDSP plugins can, I'd have bought that rather than the Helix.
Been using the Helix for 7 years. Switched to the QC 4 months ago and never going back. Yes I miss the functionality of the Helix but the QC sounds so much better.
Still have my helix as a backup and home recording.
I’m thinking to swap my QC to helix. Is that a bad idea?
I think the effectpedal is better on the left side ,on a bigger board.Have a good day.😁
Thanks for the helpful video Ben. I’ve watched a few videos on the Ampero control and apparently in the app it has some presets for non hotone gear. Such as Strymon etc. Did you play with the app for setup of your QC or manually set up your Ampero to what you needed? Do you know what Hotone does for usability options with their app for integration with the QC?
It does not include settings for QC, so I looked them up in the manual
@@bscheirman in the QC manual or Hotone one? Or both?
@@GeoffguitarQC manual
Hi, I have problem with setting up gig mode cc message, I managed to turn it on from my midi controller but I can't switch back/turn it off, please advise, thank you.
@bscheirman please can you share your cc messages from HOTONE to QC? Im struggling to do a dedicated button from stop mode to scene , and lopper as well
I need this!!
Thanks for the helpful video!! May I ask where you got that board underneath everything? I’ve been looking for something to house the same expression pedal and QC 🙏🏻
This is a temple audio duo board
@@bscheirman Awesome!! Thank you so much! ✨🌟
Thx!
Hi there. Great video. I have a QC and I'm getting an ampero control because of your video. I want to do exactly the same thing exept that instead of scene and stomp mode I want to go preset and stomp mode and all the switching for preset/and stomps will be from QC. I don't use scenes (old school). All I really want is (like you) to avoid the pressing 2 buttons at the same time. Could you please guide me on how it's done? or maybe send me a link or a video? (Ive searched enough though). By the way, how do you power QC and Ampero? Thank you so much in advance
I power the QC with a Cioks Hi5 mod using 3 current doubler cables (4>2>1), which leaves 1 more for the Ampero Control. For programming MIDI, take a look at @ChuckHirstius's channel, he covers everything in detail.
Hi! Would this work to turn effects on and off? I m usually in scene mode and it’s annoying to have to press two buttons to enter stomp mode.
Ideally I’d like the 4 buttons on the midi controller to turn on and off phaser, overdrive, delay and reverb.
I’d like to
Yes you could make this work, however the limitation here is "Press this button" not "Turn on this effect" -- so it would either by hybrid mode, or a one-button multi-command approach that would "switch to stomp mode, press G, switch back to scene mode". As finicky as this sounds, I think it would work fine.
Can you set a midi switch to control and individual tile like a boost or multi voice?
@@facelessmediallc8723 not unless it’s also assigned to a switch on the QC. (Even in scene mode you can do this)
What board are you using ? I got a temple audio but the smallest one and I’d love to have this one to put this (or another) MIDI foot controller
This a Temple Audio DUO 17
Very useful. I assume that midi can switch blocks on off too. It can almost do everything what QC ‘s switches do?? Right? Thnxx brother ❤
Currently you are limited to the functions that NDSP has defined, which are things like cycle through Modes, open/close tuner, open close looper, looper controls, and toggling a stomp that is already assigned a foot switch. This last part is the most limiting, you can't have a block learn a different foot switch message. I do think they might add this in the future, it would be so useful.
@@bscheirman agreed. Thnxx
@@bscheirmandid the new update resolve this or maybe it’s the update coming? I just got my whole new board laid out and then see this video with the Hotone mini and it has me thinking all of this again 😂 -P
thanks for sharing. Do you know how to swtich among modes? In the manual, I found that we can use #47 value 0/1/2 to choose the specific mode. But I don't find a midi message that can switch among them. I only want to use 1 instead of 3 buttons to switch mode.
Many midi controllers will let you cycle between messages with the same button
What’s the midi cc function I want to use my Helix rack to control the QC and the manual has specific numbers but I can’t seem to make the two units communicate.
I would first look at the manual support.neuraldsp.com/help/quad-cortex-user-manual. It has all the MIDI CC numbers you need.
I got a lot of info from Scott Uh's video here: ua-cam.com/video/IoUtshlzCTo/v-deo.html
Hi Ben interesting how your using midi. I would like to set up a midi controller just to turn pedals on and off. I would like to use the quad cortex in scene mode and use the quad to change scenes. Then use the midi controller to turn pedals on and off while staying in my scene. Is that possible? Thanks.
Yes that's possible, but a little more convoluted that you might expect. Keep the QC in scene mode, then program each of your midi buttons as a macro that: (1) switches to stomp mode (2) presses one of the stomp slots (A-H) (3) switches back to scene mode. Chuck Hirstius has a bunch of excellent videos of how this works with a Morningstar MIDI controller. It works well, and it happens really fast.
@@bscheirman thank you
Why these videos are alwas recorded using socks? Its like a guitar-sock thing?
What are the measurements of your pedalboard?
This is the Temple Audio DUO 17 board.
Have you considered creating Song Presets/Setlists?
I have, and I'm starting to require some one-off presets for unique songs. But I find that it's more work to tap-dance to find the song I need.
I'm going to try out having Stage Traxx send a midi PC to select a given preset for some songs and see how that goes.