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Hey fellow Helix/HX folks — long-time user here. Been gigging with a Helix since 2015, then switched to an HX Stomp later for portability. Wanted to share something I've been building. I kept wanting a preset editor I could open on whatever was in front of me — laptop, iPad, phone, whatever — without installing anything or having the unit plugged in. Couldn't quite find that anywhere, so I built it myself. Figured some of you might find it useful too. Helrig (helrig.com) — free, runs entirely in your browser: Drag in a .hlx from any of them — Helix Floor, LT or Rack, HX Stomp, Stomp XL, HX Effects, even Helix Native — or pull presets straight out of a .hxb backup or .hls setlist. Start from blank or load a sample to poke around Full signal chain and parameter editing, snapshots included Search blocks by their Line 6 name or by the gear they're modeled after — tube screamer, Fender reverb, JCM-800, whatever you actually think in Auto-detects the device on import and matches the DSP budget/footswitch layout automatically DSP budget enforcement like HX Edit — won't let you overbuild past what the device can actually run Hover a path's DSP icon to see the cost of every block on it, or open the full usage report for the chain — honestly my favorite feature; it's saved me from guessing more times than I'd like to admit Convert a preset between devices, and it tells you exactly what it had to change to fit — rather than quietly mangling it Undo and redo with a named history — "Add Deluxe Comp", not forty rows of "Edit" Share a preset with a link if you want to; the rest of your library stays private and you can revoke it any time Nothing gets uploaded — the file stays in your browser the whole time, no account needed There's an optional account that adds a cloud library — setlists, labels, version history — if you want presets synced across machines. Entirely optional; the editor is identical without it. Direct USB sync to the hardware is in progress but not live yet — right now it's file-in, file-out. Unofficial/independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Line 6 or Yamaha — just a fan-built tool made with a lot of respect for what they've built with Helix/HX, still the best guitar gear after almost 11 years. Rough edges still get fixed fast — if something looks wrong or a block/parameter shows up unlabeled, tell me and I'll dig into it. Feature requests welcome too, including "I wish HX Edit did X" type stuff — that's usually where the good ideas come from.

Sharing this because I went crazy trying to figure it out, and maybe it’ll save someone else some time. A few days ago, I tried logging into Line 6 Helix Stadium, but the QR code never appeared. The manual login didn’t work either. To make things worse, the HX Stadium App kept crashing, and I couldn’t update it from my computer or through Line 6 Central. Ironically, those were the two options the manufacturer recommended when I contacted support. Since I work in tech, something didn’t add up. Everything pointed to the app not connecting to the server, which explained why the QR wouldn’t generate. Then I thought: “What if it’s the time zone?” I tried something simple: Disabled automatic time synchronization Set the time manually And… BOOM! The QR popped up instantly, and I was able to log in without any issues. Hope this helps someone out there.

The Variax community has shown extraordinary patience, but that patience is running out. We've been waiting for the D10 interface since October 2025. We heard expectations of an April 2026 release. Four months later, we're still waiting, with no product and little meaningful communication. These aren't casual customers asking for an update. These are some of your most committed, long-term supporters who have invested heavily in the Helix/Variax ecosystem and kept faith in the platform. What many of us want more than the product itself is honesty. Tell us where things stand. Tell us what's gone wrong. Tell us if the project is delayed or canceled. What we shouldn't have to deal with is month after month of uncertainty and silence. Loyal customers deserve better than that.

The Apple silicon chips have been out since 2020, after 6 years, L6 should really be releasing software to support this natively. even the latest helix stadium software is still not released with native builds. I haven't installed rosetta and don't plan to on my M3 macbook air, i have an old intel macbook from 2008 that still works and runs the software. I really don't understand why companies like L6 don't have modern software chains, this is basic stuff that should be addressed quickly - It's not exactly a surprise that they're doing this (did i mention the Apple silicon chips have been out for 6 years?).

From any preset that uses IRs, you can scroll the IR name in the IR Block, and the full name is displayed along with its position in the IR list. The dropdown arrow displays the full list in scrollable form.

There’s a very detailed and helpful online manual that will answer most of your basic questions.

When you click the track FX button, the window that opens, containing the FX, is what I call the FX UI, because it is where the User Interacts with the FX. Each effect has a checkbox next to the effect name. Make sure that checkbox is checked.

Beats silence.

Whether Variax is discontinued or not is not the issue. I Sold a perfectly good Line 6 Helix floor that natively worked with my 2 Variax guitars and bought the Helix stadium based on the promise of the functionality of my guitars being restored via the D10 in April 2026. At this point it's false advertising at worst, at best they thought they would have an interface that they now have scrapped leaving Variax users stranded.

Hey everyone, we wanted to share a beginner-friendly tutorial series for the Line 6 Helix Stadium on YouTube that we’ve been working on for over half a year! The course is completely free! Yesterday, we published the final episode of the series, so now feels like the right time to post about it here. The full series contains almost 2 hours of Helix Stadium knowledge, so if you want to learn something new, understand the unit better, or simply see whether the Helix Stadium is the right fit for you, we’d love for you to check it out. Across the whole course, we cover everything you need to know: hardware and navigation, presets and setlists, blocks and signal flow, building your first tones, snapshots, routing and stereo, Song View and automation, controllers and footswitches, the Command Center, and finally global settings, USB audio, and maintenance. We also included a lot of practical audio examples, real-world use cases, animations, and graphics to make everything easier to follow, especially for beginners. We put a huge amount of work, time, and our own knowledge into this series to make the content as clear, practical, and reliable as possible. The series is available both as individual episodes in a playlist and as one full tutorial video, depending on how you prefer to watch. We’d genuinely appreciate any feedback. Let us know what you think - we really hope this helps someone get more comfortable with the Helix Stadium and make better use of it! :) Tutorial on YT:

Hi everyone, I am writing this post as a concerned Mac mini M4 user. Every time I open POD Go Edit, macOS repeatedly warns me that this software will soon lose support because it still relies on Intel architecture (Rosetta translation). Apple will eventually drop Rosetta entirely, and the POD Go community on modern Macs will be left completely stranded. We need an official statement or an update: When is Line 6 planning to release a native Apple Silicon version of POD Go Edit? Furthermore, the user interface (UI) feels incredibly outdated and clunky for modern desktop standards. Navigating the software feels like a chore rather than a helpful tool for musicians. The POD Go is an amazing piece of hardware, but the desktop software experience is severely lacking and falling behind the competition. Please, Line 6 team, give us a modern, native app that matches the quality of the pedalboard itself. Who else is facing these constant macOS warnings? Let’s bump this up so the dev team takes notice.

From that pulldown:

1.Check the physical cable connections: Ensure all 4 cables are plugged into the correct jacks: Guitar -> HX Effects IN HX Effects Send 1 -> Laney Guitar Input (front panel) Laney FX Send -> HX Effects Return 1 HX Effects Out -> Laney FX Return 2.Turn ON the FX Loop block: In your HX Effects preset, locate the FX Loop 1 block and make sure it is switched ON (active). Verification: Toggle the FX Loop block on/off. When it is OFF, you should hear no sound at all (or a very quiet clean sound). When it is ON, your Laney's preamp control knob should instantly start adding overdrive.

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!

Quick update for anyone who lands on this — a fair bit has changed since I posted it, so I've refreshed the top post too. Biggest one: it handles the whole family now, not just Helix and the Stomps. HX Effects, Helix Rack, Helix LT, and presets made in Helix Native all open and edit properly. Rack and Stomp XL are flagged beta in the app — I built those from preset files rather than having the unit on my desk, so everything behaves the same, I just can't honestly say I've proven it against real hardware yet. It converts between them now. Point a Helix preset at an HX Stomp and it tells you exactly what it had to change — amp and cab gone if you're heading to HX Effects, snapshots past whatever the target holds (named, so you know which ones went), footswitch assignments with no switch to land on. If it still doesn't fit it stops and tells you how many blocks to pull rather than picking for you. That bit mattered to me — only you know which ones the sound actually depends on. You can pull presets straight out of a .hxb backup or a .hls setlist now, so you don't have to export them one at a time first. Sharing: post a link to a preset and anyone can open the chain, load it in the editor, or grab the .hlx. Rest of your library stays private, and you can kill the link whenever. Undo and redo got a proper named history — "Add Deluxe Comp", not forty rows of "Edit". And there's an optional account now that adds a cloud library — setlists, labels, search by the gear inside a preset, version history, a trash you can undo from. Emphasis on optional; the editor is identical signed out and still uploads nothing. USB is still in progress, still file-in, file-out for now. Rough edges and "I wish HX Edit did X" requests still very welcome — that's still where the good ideas come from.

Firstly, congratulations to the Line 6 team on the Helix Stadium XL. The Matrix Mixer, Showcase integration, independent output buses, and USB audio interface have made the Stadium one of the most innovative live-performance processors currently available. This proposal is intended to unlock one workflow that I believe would make the Stadium XL the definitive all-in-one live performance hub for professional touring musicians. ⸻ Current workflow Many modern touring musicians now use a laptop running Cubase, Ableton Live, Logic, MainStage or Reaper as the central show controller. The DAW simultaneously provides: • Backing tracks • Click tracks • Spoken cues • MIDI Program Changes • Snapshot automation • Tempo automation The Helix Stadium XL already receives MIDI perfectly over USB. The missing piece is flexible routing of USB audio returns. ⸻ Current USB Routing Currently: USB 1/2 ✔ Appears directly in Matrix Mixer ✔ Independent level ✔ Independent routing ✔ No DSP path required USB 3/4 Requires DSP Path USB 5/6 Requires DSP Path USB 7/8 Requires DSP Path This means additional DSP paths are consumed purely for routing audio rather than processing it. ⸻ Real-world example Professional live show Inputs Helix • Guitar • Bass • Vocal Cubase USB 1/2 Stereo Backing Tracks USB 3 Click USB 4 Voice Cue USB MIDI Program Changes Snapshot Changes Tempo Changes Desired Matrix XLR (FOH) • Guitar • Bass • Vocal • Backing Tracks (No Click) (No Cue) ⸻ Phones / IEM • Guitar • Bass • Vocal • Backing Tracks • Click • Cue ⸻ Current limitation Because USB 3/4 cannot be accessed directly inside Matrix: Click and Cue must consume one or more DSP paths. This reduces available DSP for: • Dual Guitar amps • Bass processing • Vocal processing • Parallel effects • Additional routing ⸻ Proposed Feature Expose: USB In 3/4 USB In 5/6 USB In 7/8 as Matrix Mixer sources. Exactly like USB 1/2. Each should provide: • Level • Pan • Mute • Solo • Assignment to: • XLR • 1/4” • Phones ⸻ Even cleaner implementation Instead of adding three additional Matrix channels: Simply allow the existing USB Matrix source to choose its source. Example: USB Matrix Source ○ USB 1/2 ○ USB 3/4 ○ USB 5/6 ○ USB 7/8 This would require almost no UI expansion. ⸻ Additional Enhancement Allow multiple USB Matrix channels simultaneously. Example: USB 1/2 Stereo Backing USB 3 Click USB 4 Cue USB 5/6 Playback Stem Each independently routable. ⸻ Why this matters The Stadium XL is uniquely positioned to become: • Guitar Processor • Bass Processor • Vocal Processor • USB Audio Interface • Playback Engine • MIDI Show Controller • Monitor Mixer inside one device. No additional interface. No external mixer. One USB cable. One pedalboard. One MacBook. ⸻ Competitive Advantage Many touring guitarists currently carry: • Guitar Processor • Playback Interface • MIDI Interface • Small Mixer The Stadium XL already contains almost everything required. This firmware enhancement would allow many musicians to eliminate: • Additional USB interfaces • Playback mixers • Extra cabling resulting in: • Faster setup • Fewer failure points • Easier travel • Simpler stage footprint ⸻ Why this fits the Stadium philosophy The Matrix Mixer already supports multiple non-DSP sources including: • USB 1/2 • Bluetooth • Aux • Showcase playback • Click • Count-in Extending Matrix support to additional USB return pairs would be a natural continuation of this architecture and would greatly enhance the Stadium’s role as a complete live-performance hub. ⸻ Final Thoughts I’m a professional touring musician building my live show around the Helix Stadium XL. My goal is to use a single USB connection from Cubase to carry: • Backing tracks • Click • Cue tracks • MIDI Program Changes • Snapshot automation while using the Stadium XL as the only stage processor for guitar, bass, vocals, monitoring, and FOH routing. This enhancement would make that possible without additional hardware and would elevate the Helix Stadium XL into a class-leading solution for modern live performance. Thank you for considering this feature request and for continuing to develop such an innovative platform.

Sends should defnitely get a mixer! SPDIFs too! That way you can send the song (or the return of USB for a DAW) straight into a physical out... I use Gig perfomer with as synth so I have a separate interface for it and I would definitely use only helix as interface if I could send Gig performers out to the 3/4 sends... 3/4 returns used as IEM In so... there is a nice use for the unused sends! Probably a mode called Aux out (to copy aux in for IEM in) that turns 3/4 sends into a mixer ... then you select whatever you want to send.

I'd simply forget about it. They've got more than enough issues to sort out with the Stadium line. The Variax is pretty much a dead product. Not manufactured anymore. So I wouldn't bet on them to care about the software anymore. Well, kind of in defense of Line 6, they have supported the original Helix line for quite a long time. I'd say that users got quite something for their money there. Could it be better? Perhaps. Will it happen in a capitalistic world? Likely not.

If you mean presets, not templates, try customtone https://line6.com/customtone/ Learning to make good presets, Jason Sadites on youtube has a wealth of stuff. He might even have dowloadable starting points. When I first started I paid for about half a dozen from people I found on youtube playing styles I liked and modified and learnt from there. Two stand outs for me were Marco Fanton and Glenn DeLuane.

Here's a suggestion. You can only do split paths, but it's very tricky. 1. Add a duck'ing reverb block, with mix at 100% 2. Move the block to a parallel path. 3. Now on line 2, what's coming in is your guitar signal, what's coming out is ducking reverb only. 3. Add a sensible amount of delay after that on the same line, a few repeats, not 99% Now as soon as you stop playing notes, the duck'ing reverb engages, and the signal goes to the delay. Ducking reverb is sweet. It lets your entire note ring out, and when you stop playing, it creates this wall of sound. You need to play around with the pre-delay and feedback parameters. Duck'ing reverb works great on the Helix, and if you put it in parallel path, you can add a bunch of effects after it, mix it however you want. If you can't get the duck'ing effect working, if it's not automatically disengaging as you need, you can always assign things to the expression pedal and mix your delay out, or even bypass it. Not really related, but I crated a preset that creates a synth pad, all using parallel paths. So you may find it useful how to organize things in all those parallel paths.

Why ask us? We don't work for Line 6. Nobody here knows anything. OK, here's my guess. Eric Klein (Chief Product Design Architect - Digital Igloo on The Gear Page) continues to say that there WILL be at least one more update for Helix. If anybody knows, he does. When that happens, look for an update to Native. Meanwhile, sign up at The Gear Page and frequent the Digital and Modeling Forum. There's also a Facebook place where he hangs out, but I don't do Facebook, so search.

It’s been a while since I’ve used Helix or HX Edit, bit it occurs to me that the set of IRs that are loaded into HX Edit at startup are the ones that are contained in a specific IR folder on your computer, along with the preset and setlist files contained in sibling folders. Perhaps you can use that specific folder, not HX Edit, to see the full filenames and edit/delete accordingly? Presumably the next time HX Edit is launched your set of loaded IRs will be as you wish.

I doubt that you’re doing anything incorrectly. It’s likely a glitch that nobody has ever seen before. I can’t imagine going through 50 pages of Customtone preset listings and wishing I could see 950 more. If you want to pursue this you can open a support ticket.

Then it has MIDI DIN ports and all you need is a controller with DIN ports and a MIDI DIN cable of an appropriate length. If you choose to go wireless then you'll need a wireless to MIDI DIN adapter. I don't recommend wireless. I find it to be undependable on a good day. YMMV. Catalyst Edit continues to work with a USB cable to whatever computer/iThingy that you're currently using.

Dandesy…thank you so much! I just started messing around with the device without really knowing what i was doing and thought something went wrong, lol.

As is often said, the devil is in the details, and you didn't specify the model of your Catalyst. Since the connections are not obvious, I'll assume that you have a Catalyst 60, which does not have a MIDI DIN Port. To use MIDI you'll either need a HOST (a computer, iPhone or iPad), a MIDI controller that doubles as a HOST. or a HOST "box". Amazon.com: M-VAVE Chocolate Plus MIDI Footswitch Controller Pedal, 4 Buttons, USB Compatible, APP Control, Portable : Musical Instruments I've never used this, so read everything you can find about it. AFAICT, you should be able to simply connect a USB-B to USB-C cable from your Cat60 to the Chocolate+ and use the wireless app to program it. If you choose to go this way, buy it from a store with a no-questions-asked return policy. It's non-host version gets good reviews on The Gear Page. If you have an iPhone/iPad (idk about androids) you can connect directly and the iThingy will serve as a host. I recommend getting a powered hub instead of direct connect, else usable time will be limited by the battery in your iThingy. I use this with my iPad: Amazon.com: Anker USB C Hub, 5-in-1 USBC to HDMI Splitter with 4K Display | 85W Max PD, 1 Powered USB-C 5Gbps & 2 Powered USB-A 3.0 5Gbps Data Ports, for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Dell and More (Black) : Electronics You can also connect a standard (non host) MIDI controller using one of these: Amazon.com: CME H2MIDI Pro Compact USB Host MIDI Interface | Router, Filter, Mapper, 32-Bit Processor, Dual Power Mode, Minimal Size, For Guitarists & Producer : Musical Instruments There are other products at various prices in all of the above categories. I suggest that you do your due diligence before deciding which way to go.

No. You need a cheap 4 button MIDI pedal such as Hotone Ampero Control (what I use) or MVAVE Chocolate.

Please describe exactly what you are doing when trying to change Snapshots, and compare that to the instructions in the manual. Let us know at what point the instructions are breaking down for you.

It isn't like I have had a ton of mic pre's, but I think that is a pretty standard warning across *a lot* of equipment (including microphones).

Hey! Just saw this. This is wonderful. I have something similar but it exports to excel as I have a LOT of helix files and wanted to just be able to scan my directories. But they are not as detailed as yours. It looks like you have exposed EVRY Helix setting. I just wanted to let you know that this is really handy for me since my Helix recently died (terminal firmware update that Line 6 has, so far, no good fix for). I have a Stadium now but I have to fire up my DAW (Reaper) in order to see my presets (since HX Edit will not run without detecting the Helix). This handles the Split paths and Everything. I hope that You put something similar together for the Stadium since it is very similar in file structure already. Great Job. I hope that I don't have to pay for this anytime soon!

I'm still confident that there's a third option: It's been delayed much longer than anticipated but it has not been scrapped. I don't believe they are now planning to leave Variax users stranded and just don't want to tell us.

Yes, I have been a strong proponent of Variax guitars and I still use the two I have regularly. I still think they are great guitars and I regret that development was shut down by Yamaha when they bought Line 6 (just my observation and opinion that Yamaha was the reason - not necessarily factual). I too am looking forward to the arrival of the promised D10 device and I too am frustrated by its delayed introduction, so I understand your frustration. I was just responding to your characterization of something no longer existing when it hasn’t yet existed - i.e. Helix Stadium supporting Variax.

Dear Support, can you pleas give an answer to this question. POD Go Edit 2.50 is designed for INTEL processors. When it will available for Apple chips? Thank you. Best regards Michael

The Variax community has shown extraordinary patience, but that patience is running out. We've been waiting for the D10 interface since October 2025. We heard expectations of an April 2026 release. Four months later, we're still waiting, with no product and little meaningful communication. These aren't casual customers asking for an update. These are some of your most committed, long-term supporters who have invested heavily in the Helix/Variax ecosystem and kept faith in the platform. What many of us want more than the product itself is honesty. Tell us where things stand. Tell us what's gone wrong. Tell us if the project is delayed or canceled. What we shouldn't have to deal with is month after month of uncertainty and silence. Loyal customers deserve better than that.

You need to open a support ticket to report this potential bug to Line 6. They won’t necessarily see this post here in this user-to-user peer support forum.

Hey, a small but pretty important update for the series - especially if English isn’t your first language. Alongside the original English version, every episode will also have professional dubbing and subtitles in 10 languages: Polish, Spanish, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian. We really wanted to make the series easier to follow for people who normally have to rely on English manuals, tutorials, and videos for this kind of in-depth Helix Stadium content. Hopefully this makes the whole series much more useful and accessible to players around the world. And if you know someone who might find the series useful, we’d really appreciate it if you shared it with them or passed it along somewhere! Thank you!

+1 to this. Fully support this request! As a touring musician running a DAW-automated live setup, this is a massive oversight in the current implementation. Having to consume valuable DSP blocks just to route USB audio channels like Click and Cue tracks completely defeats the purpose of having a powerful built-in USB audio interface. Exposing USB 3/4, 5/6, and 7/8 directly to the Matrix Mixer (bypassing DSP entirely) and allowing them to be independently assigned to specific hardware physical outputs (XLR, 1/4" / Sends, and Phones) is crucial. Click and cues must go exclusively to IEMs without touching FOH, and doing that right now needlessly eats up DSP. The Stadium XL has all the hardware capability to be the ultimate single-cable live performance hub. Huge thanks to the OP for such a clean breakdown. Line 6 / Digital Igloo, please take a look at this — implementing this would allow us to ditch secondary audio interfaces for good!

Some time ago I submitted feedback requests for the heel-down tuner as well as reversing the colors of the scribble strips, but for anybody else who thinks these are important issues to be addressed I suggest that you chime in as well as it may help to move a solution higher on the to-do list. I'm really surprised that there aren't more people barking about the brightness of the display because they are next to impossible to see outdoors. At the full brightness setting, the active scribble strips are barely legible, and the dimmed inactive scribble strips washout completely. My guess is that the brightness cannot be increased without burning out the OLEDs, however simply reversing the colors would make them much easier to see. My suggestion was to reverse the color of the active scribble strips for higher visibility. The inactive strips would have the text illuminated on a black background, but the brightness would be increase to full intensity so that they can be seen. better Something like the attached image. It would also be nice to have an option to separate the tuner from the tap tempo button. I set all of my time-based effects to the tempo and its too easy to accidentally double-tap the tuner button when activating the tuner, in which case the tempo is changed to some random value. Moving the tuner to the heel-down position of the expression pedal is a very logical way to activate it. Volume goes down, tuner goes on. My Boss GT-1000 is setup this way. Some people might be happy with the shared tuner/tap tempo button which is fine, but it would be easy enough to give us an option for activating the tuner in another manner.

I've tried everything from a different load box, new cables, to moving my setup to a different room and nothing resolved the ghost distortion issue. For me it's equally problematic with clean tones. All levels are as should be coming from the load box and to the stadium send and receive. Looks like an issue with the algorithm.

WARNING! ZOMBIE THREAD! BUT...FWIW - That only affects the blinking of the LED. Tapping to set the actual tempo is still active. Always. Having your Helix for 3 hours is relevant, how?

Just a thought; If they cannot make the scribble strips any brighter then another possible solution that might make the text more visible is to reverse the colors (white background with black text). It could be a simple global setting. I don't know if this would improve visibility or not, but its something they could try.

I played my first outdoor gig this weekend, and the display brightness issue is worse than I expected. I had planned to make a sunshield however our biggest concern this past Saturday was getting rained out so I didn't bother making a shield. Fortunately it didn't rain, but the was completely overcast. The sun was behind me making a hotspot in the overcast sky, but there was never any direct sunlight. I normally keep the displays on about 80% brightness in the house but outdoors the displays weren't visible at all at this setting. I turned the touchscreen and scribble strips to max brightness. From a playing position the scribble strips were unreadable due to the sky reflecting on the glass surface. I had step up directly over the Stadium in which case I could read the scribble strip, but barely. The only button LEDs that were visible were those colored red. Any other color was washed out completely. Reflections were not an issue with the touchscreen so its was more legible, although it was faint even at max brightness. I got through the gig, but if it had been a bright sunny day I might have been dead in the water. I have four outdoor gigs next month so making a sunshield is going to be imperative. If the sun is behind me then the displays may not be bright enough even with a shield. I plan to dust off my trusty Boss GT-1000 as a backup just in case the sunlight makes the Stadium unusable. In my opinion, using OLEDs for the scribble strips rather than LCDs (like the OG Helix) is a major design flaw. LCDs are highly visible in direct sunlight because they don't rely on backlighting to be seen. The Stadium's scribble strips aren't in color, so I don't understand why they changed from LCDs to OLEDs. With the exception of when I'm using the tuner, I can get by without seeing the touchscreen, but seeing the scribble strips is essential.

@MojoAxe I made a portable solid sunshade device years ago for my OG Helix. The initial reason was to reduce and overheating issues. Using it with the Stadium requires me to set the brightness and brightness timeout. I haven't had a lot of outside high daylight venues since getting the Stadium so far. For the one during a late afternoon it was passable. It was not optimal. jpd

I've already confronted this situation and had to repeatedly lean down to see my snapshots. I suggested that Line 6 include the Performance Mode for Stadium XL in a future firmware update to get around this, as replacing all the OLEDs with LCDs is probably not viable. I did go through and organize my LED foot switch rings by color but those are also less bright than on the original Helix Floor. I have an upcoming national tour in June, and I'm even considering selling the Stadium XL and getting the smaller Stadium. That's how serious this problem is.

I have the same problem; on a stage with a lot of spotlights, it is difficult to read.

Well, I’d give you 100 to 1 odds that it will….. Makes no sense to include a VDI input on the D10 if all it does is supply power to the Variax. And a phrase I recall Eric Klein saying in the launch video when talking about the D10 is something like ‘We’re not going to abandon our Variax and PowerCab owners.’ But, as you say, that’s not 100% confirmation.

Line 6 Helix 2.70 Mega-Setlists · 4 Setlists: IRs LG + IRs HG & Cabs LG + Cabs HG. · 232 Presets, each with 8 Snapshots. · 57 solo amp & 175 dual amp presets. · Cab Sets feature L6 Cabs. IR Sets feature IR blocks, but not IR files are provided. BYOIR. · LG = Low Gain (Supro->Plexi Jump). HG = High Gain (2204->L6 amps). · Each amp features Snapshots for Low, Mid, & High Gain settings. · 2 formats for dual amp presets: “Channels” & “Parallel Amps”. · LED rings color coordinated for Snapshots view. · All FX Blocks are custom named. · All Snapshots output leveled to -28.5 LFKS Integrated, ITU-R BS.1770-4, over 15sec of looped open G strumming. · EXP Pedal 2 has additional Mod, Delay, & Reverb settings. · Amp and FX settings largely derived from the SOAS Project (25%) and personal preferences (75%). · To Import, Drag + Drop directly into Helix. Or hit the top left yellow “Import” button & search for “all files” instead of just .hls. I am not sure why the Setlists are saved as .hlx instead of .hls files. · For more information, including lists of all of the amp and effects settings, along with the OwnHammer IR’s I used, please visit: https://l6helix.wixsite.com/helixsoas · To Download the Setlists, please visit: https://line6.com/customtone/profile/Noobian_Prince https://imgur.com/a/Gic53qq

I created a patch for fun that was intended to be versatile using snapshots & foot-switches to go from cleans to rock all in a single patch. It's free, it's on Custom Tone (that has descriptors) & the cleaner tones might suit. There's a sound clip too and there's even a funk riff at the beginning: https://line6.com/customtone/tone/5101684/

I had the Helix floor in a pedalboard with many other pedals (now I've the rack, so this is story from the past). Looks cool, but it's gonna be a boat anchor with a humongous footprint. I ended up splitting in two separate sections because there were to much weight, to much torsion on the board and to much movement between velcro and pedals, etc... Was an overdone thing for me. If you plan to add many pedals to this board, I would suggest to keep the helix floor out of it. Helix floor is already a pedalboard, and you could find useful to have the option to use the two parts alone, in situations where you don't need the entire arsenal. My probably useless 2C. :)

This is the link to the Gearbox download. I have it installed on a Win 10 laptop and it still works for me. I see they state, "OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8" but it works for me on Win 10. GearBox Gearbox Installer Version 3.72Released 3/16/10 Works with: GuitarPort POD Studio GX POD Studio KB37 POD Studio UX1 POD Studio UX2 POD X3 POD X3 Live POD X3 Pro PODxt PODxt Live PODxt Pro TonePort DI-Gold TonePort DI-Silver TonePort GX TonePort KB37 TonePort UX1 TonePort UX2 TonePort UX8 This version of GearBox includes drivers which support Windows 7. This single installer includes a complete software package for GuitarPort, TonePort, PODxt and POD X3 devices. It includes the GearBox application (v3.72), device drivers (v4.0.2.3) for all supported devices, the Line 6 Monkey intelligent updater (v1.33) and Control Panel (v3.41). See the GearBox manuals page for step-by-step installation instructions and detailed setup info for use with many recording applications. Full release notes are available here. For owners of eligible Line 6 hardware (other than TonePort DI Silver or Gold Plug-in Bundle or TonePort UX8) plug-in processing requires the purchase and activation of a license from the Line 6 Online Store. OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 ( 68.00 MB ) Get Download