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ANYWAYS... I'll wait for the movie. ;)

You mean like this? https://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/An-LFO-and-an-ADSR/811573-23508 And this? https://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Random-Rate-and-Depth-option/840441-23508

Just took a Zoia (HolY MoTheR Of GoD what a blast!!!!), and LFO does take 0.3% of DSP powa. I'd really love to see LFOs, ADSR, Random and other controllers, available in the Helix. Would bring the device into another level.

Have you got it working yet? If not I'll run you thru the process.

I honestly think this line of thinking is totally misdirected. Just because you can get a unit that can do the job of a batch of pedals doesn't make it a good choice for a facility with a lot of very different users. You can use it as a full system into FRFR (the PA potentially) or just as effects in front of an amp. But!!! The learning curve is definitely not for everyone, and not for the casual user. If you've never used a Helix before, and you turn up for a rehearsal, the rest of the band will probably kill you while you stumble around totally lost, wasting their time, and failing to get good sounds. The great flexibility comes with the disadvantage that these devices require setup. Setup specific to the requirements of the user and song. I doubt there is a Helix user who didn't need at least a few days before they had a basic kit of sounds - and they were absolutely bound to be totally aware that they were just at the start of their journey! As an experienced user, I'd never turn up to rehearsal with a blank canvas - just adjusting a sound to work at band volume (maybe 5 mins of total fiddling) drives my band members mad! I absolutely think effects in general are a black hole you should not enter. A classic Fender amp or maybe one of the amps that have like 4 or5 sound types - clean/crunch/lead/metal type - on a knob is as far into that territory as I'd go. Anyone who cares about their sound will bring a pedal board or their own multi effects unit - don't try to solve that for them - you totally can't!

Hi. I love sound of my spider v 20 combo, but when i want to record it with built-in usb-interface in DAW it sounds like crap. It looks that cabsim is off through usb or headphones out. Do you have same problems?

Since you seemed to think that digital overload was BAD but analog overload was OK..... If the Input is already overloaded (digital or analog), that makes downstream gain staging much more difficult. If all you're using midi for is to add switches, great, but midi can be used for a lot more than that, and you weren't specific. I bought a Helix in part to cut down on board complexity and tap dancing while performing. Adding external pedals, to me, is going backwards. Since midi can be used to re-simplify after doing so, I pointed out some possible cons in that scenario. See my closing remarks below. Not at all. Just be aware that just as not all OD pedals sound great with all amps, not all boosts/ODs are going to sound great in front of your HXS. Above is noted because it saves typing later on when you (royal you) come back and say "HXS sucks because it doesn't sound good with my pedals". Really. It happens a LOT! Keep in mind that when we respond to posters on this forum, we have no idea of your experience level and, unless you're very specific about your goals, we have no idea what you're trying to accomplish. We just do our best to be helpful to fellow users!

Increase the reverbs High Cut. Think of it this way: you mix the dry signal with duller reverbed version of it which makes the sum of both duller, too.

Yes, the Main outs are actually balanced, so you could just get a TRS->XLR adapter....or use a direct box with a TS patch cord...either way will work fine. You could use the AMP Out to feed FOH also...just set the Global setting to Main if you do. That's an unbalanced out so you need a direct box if you use that one.

Mine works fine too because it's the same setup as yours, haha. I had originally hoped to leave FS3 as my Tempo/Tuner button because I used the "touch" functionality of the button to view the BPM setting (or fine tune it). There's another button combo that gets you there involving the smaller buttons, but I don't recall it right now. One suggestion I made to Line 6 on TGP was to give us a home screen display of the BPM with some of the dead space on the display, but that still isn't available. Of course, if you set your delays to milliseconds instead of according to BPM, I guess it might not even matter to you.

UPDATE: Okay, I tried out @revans's MB3 file and it works like charm! Even the LED's are working! I was even able to change the range of presets - I think that's a much better idea to have an option of 5-10 to cycle through quickly, and then I can always use the Stomp itself to audition others. So, in my setup, HX Stomp's 3 buttons are now FS1, FS2, & FS3. That's 5 blocks in total that I can bypass, adding in the bypass triggers on the 2 outer buttons of the Midi Baby 3. That's plenty. BUT, the one "problem" I have now is that I would probably best be served by adding one more of those BeatLoop dual footswitches (as you did), since FS4 and FS5 are totally unused right now. I probably want FS5 as a toggle button for my (non-Mission) expression pedal, in case I want to use a wah or adjust other parameters. FS4 could be a level/EQ booster. The "Bypass over MIDI" is a great feature, but FS1-5 are more powerful, as they can be mapped not only to bypass, but to multiple parameters across different effects. For example, I have a "U2 patch" that has dual modulated delays, but I want a more percussive sound when the delays are on, and a increased reverb when they are off...footswitches can do that! A big thank you to @revans for making his settings available and for your hand-holding through the changes. Hope you have an excellent rest of your week, man.

Something strange is happening. When I boot up the HX Stomp with the Midi Baby 3 connected, all of the single press functions seem to work. The FS4 & FS5 toggles (for effects blocks) continue to work and are rock solid. But the long press commands on L & R buttons of the MB3 work intermittently, and will occasionally "freeze" up some of those corresponding features on the Stomp. I find that if I start on preset 000, I can cycle to 001, and maybe 002, but then a long press will either do nothing or require multiple triggers to get it to work. On occasion, if I'm starting on preset 003, a long press on the MB3's right footswitch (my "preset up" command) will sometimes send it back to 001 (as if it is starting from 000). Also, the short press functions on the MB3 are supposed to select snapshots, and they do, except they seem to freeze up and then not allow you to change snapshots at some point. I'm really at a loss, and clearly out of my league with MIDI programming. I'm thinking that Snapshots are mostly unnecessary for my workflow, so I could do without that. At this point, I just want 5 additional one-press buttons and my expression pedal. I'm hoping it's just my wonky long-press commands for preset switching that is messing everything up. At the very least, I want to see this work with your template or one of the other ones I found online, even if it's not my preferred setup. So, with "Block Bypass via MIDI", I can use that to trigger blocks on and off separate from having to use FS1 thru FS5, is that correct? If so, maybe I could just assign FS4 and FS5 to Preset Up/Down and sacrifice those two. I definitely want the Stomp itself to be in "Stomp Mode" (showing FS1, FS2, and FS3), and I would prefer to leave FS3 as the Tap/Tuner, since I am sort of use to that red flashing light and the ability to touch the button to view tempo settings. But mostly, I just want this to work, and am a little surprised I'm having this much difficulty.

Ahhh, okay. So I tried using @revans's as a template and moving some functions around, but mine was doing something similar to what @robgeneralli complained about earlier in the thread - it worked sometimes, but then would jump to the wrong preset on an up/down command, almost as if it was picking up from the wrong count. I looked at the setup again, and it looks like you send three messages at once, such that there commands to reset the left and right counters back to "0" with each message. I think I about 90% understand that, and it seems to explain what mine was not doing. It's not really mentioned in this thread, but the MB3 has some issues - the LED's basically do not function properly, and Disaster Area had some COVID-related delays in getting their editor updated such that they can release v9 firmware that supposedly addresses some or all of the issues. But for $130, it has some much potential as a Stomp controller because not only does it add 3 switches, but it acts almost like an external footswitch "splitter" with those two extra inputs that can feed in additional switches or expression pedals. I use my Stomp all the time, but just want to get to the point where I am comfortable enough with the setup to anchor everything down to a pedal board and leave things where they are!

Thanks @DarthHollis!

Depends on what your tools are...For me, I would download the video, extract the audio track, create a project in Reaper, import the extracted audio and then record my tracks shooting video at the same time....After I mixed it down, I would use iMovie or Sony Vegas to put the audio & video together and do the video render...Just depends if I was using my PC or Mac for which video software I would use to render the video. All you do is line up the audio from the camera to the rendered audio, then delete the camera audio...

If a simple LFO causes DSP usage to "go through the roof" there is something very very wrong indeed.

Thanks for the suggestion @Gaz_Ham. I hope I don't have to run unsupported, legacy software in compatibility mode on a brand new machine. I hope there's a way I can upgrade to Pod Farm 2... the Guitar Port is 100% supported on that version. From what I can see, you could spend $100 to get a new piece of hardware that includes a Pod Farm license, or you can buy the Pod Farm 2 software for $100. I don't want to throw away my perfectly functional Guitar Port, nor do I want to be extorted into spending $100 for what should be an upgrade license (free or inexpensive).