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There is no need for this this, because we have snapshots and stomps to change our sounds, and there's no need to go to individual presets while you play. But that's besides point... The only thing you can do is create a bunch of "chained" presets. If you use 8 presets, then for each of the 8 presets, you can customize the buttons to take you to the other presets. This can be done in Command Center. Command Center allows you to customize your "Stomp" mode view. In the same view you can mix and match whether you want to turn on/off individual stomps, change snapshots, or go to other presets. What we are trying to do is have one preset have buttons that will go to other presets from within its "Stomp" view. 1. Go to one preset, open up Command Center, and make sure that 8 buttons take you to appropriate 8 presets (including the current one). 2. When doing this, make sure when one button is pressed, the others don't default to "next snapshot" or something like this. There is a global setting you can disable to not have it default to that. But it's basically intentional: you press one button and now your layout can be completely different. In essence for every preset, in "Stomp" view, you have 8 different layouts. If you want all 8 to look the same, then click each button and re-assign what the rest of your buttons will do. Since you are not using snapshots, this shouldn't be a problem, but still worth checking so you don't have a "dead end" screen where you can't go to any presets at all. You need to make sure you can go to every presets from every other preset, so that's 8*8 combinations---have fun testing that :) But if you are using snapshots, then see what your stomp screen will look like after you go to a different snapshot than the default one your preset is saved with. 3. Since you have assigned a bunch of buttons in your "Stomp" view, you can now change their ring colors. 4. Once you've successfully set up the layout for one preset, so that it takes you to the other 7 presets and recalls the current preset -- repeat the same exact steps for the rest of your presets. On Helix Floor you have "10 button stomp" mode in Global Settings, so you can chain 10 presets instead of 8. Beware, that if you reorder your presets, this setup may not work as intended. Now you've created "wormholes" that link 8 presets from each other. Is it possible? yes. Would I recommend doing this? Again, no, because nobody uses presets to change sounds, when we have snapshots and stomps. And by nobody, I mean touring musicians who don't want gaps in their sound. And yes I'm aware of the "gapless preset switching", but you give up 50% of your DSP for that.. Not worth it. I have been using Presets for every song. Or sometimes one big "kitchen sink" preset that does all my sounds. I change the sounds with snapshots, and use the expression pedal to control different things. Never had the need to do anything else, and I use a ton of effects and tricks in my playing.

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 played at an outdoor festival this weekend on a stage with a canopy, using a sunshade over the Stadium, with the brightness of the scribble strips set to 100%, and still I could barely read the scribble strips. The problem is two-fold. The OLEDs aren't nearly bright enough, and the glass picks up reflections so you have to move around to find an angle where you can read the text. The scribble strips for the active buttons were faint, but they could be seen. The OLED pixels for the inactive buttons are dimmed so they were nearly impossible to read even when I bent over for a closer look. The LED rings around the buttons could not be seen. Had it not been for the canopy, I believe that the Stadium may have been rendered unusable. I submitted a support ticket a while back about the poor visibility of the scribble strips. I doubt that they can turn up the brightness much without damaging the OLEDs, but there are some things that could be done to improve the visibility. My suggestion is that they could create a "performance" setting which eliminates dimming of the inactive buttons. Instead, all OLEDs would be at maximum brightness, and the active buttons would have the pixel colors inverted to designate the buttons which are active. Something similar to the attached concept image. They still wouldn't have the high visibility of an LCD display, but it would be an improvement. I love my Stadium, but I have a number of outdoor gigs this summer and if I end up in direct sunlight situation, the Stadium may be unusable. I play in three different bands and I'm one of those guys that creates a lot of song-specific presets, so memorizing what each button does in order to use the unit blindly is not an option. I really don't want to do it, but I plan to take my Boss GT-1000 as a backup to all outdoor gigs just in case the Stadium is impossible to use.

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 played my first festival of the year with the Stadium. All gigs since I got it in November were indoors. The scribble strip were totally unreadable. The rings around the switch - could not tell if they were on or off. It was a cloudy day with no sunshine. Covered stage at Noon. So, no stage lighting. This is not good. Between songs I could find what I needed by sound. But, in mid-song, quick changes were very stressful. Hoping for help from Line 6 on this.....doubt that it will happen.

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've got a dozen outdoor gigs on the schedule already and I'm concerned that the scribble strips will be impossible to see. The Helix Floor has LCDs which are highly visible in direct sunlight, but the Stadium's OLEDs wash out. Making a sunshade is on my list of things to do next week.

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