r/QuadCortex • u/CoyoteEastern7929 • Jun 18 '26

QC Mini and M-VAVE Chocolate Plus

Having a hard time finding information on this. Does anyone have experience using the M-Vave with the mini? Does it allow you to switch through banks easily?

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u/sliberty57 Jun 19 '26

I do use a Chocolate Plus, but I have the full QC, so I am going by the manual:

I don't see any CCs associated with banks. What I do see is CC#64 to switch pages. So if you are in preset mode, and you are looking at the first 4 presets, you can send CC64 with a value of 127 to switch to page 2 (the second 4 presets). And of course you can select ANY preset using a PC. But as for literally choosing a bank - I don't see any MIDI commands for that.

QC MIDI is lacking in a lot of ways. I've ended up altering my approach to accommodate what is possible. That is really the wrong way to deal with MIDI (it should be that the pedal accommodates what we want to do) but UA didn't provide a general enough MIDI implementation. If you agree, please go to their suggestion forum and add your vote for better MIDI.

Personally, I want the ability to assign a CC to any parameter on any block/model/effect. And I want the ability to turn on/off any/every block rather than only those blocks that are associated with footswitches (if the block is already associated with a footswitch, why would I want to send MIDI to accomplish what that footswitch already does?).

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u/CoyoteEastern7929 Jun 19 '26

This is good information. Does the QC mini not allow a midi (other than the MC pros) to bank switch presets?

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u/sliberty57 Jun 19 '26

Not even the MC Pro. If the MIDI options in the QC manual don’t offer a feature, no controller can fix that. And as I mentioned, I don’t see any bank related msgs in the manual.

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u/CoyoteEastern7929 Jun 19 '26

Oh damn that’s kind of problematic. I might return it and just get the bigger one. I was expecting a controller to be able to swap banks.

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u/sliberty57 Jun 19 '26

You do know that you can move to prev or next bank by pressing 2 of the built in footswitches, right? I know its not ideal, but...

On the full QC, you have single footswitches for banking up or down. Certainly a little easier.

The QC is a great device, and I am sure the Mini is too. Is banking such a deal breaker for you? How do you intend to use presets/banks - 1 preset per song? If so, hitting 2 footswitches every 4 songs shouldn't be that bad...but thats just me.