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Unlike some other devices, the Helix Floor/LT/Rack allow any preset to be placed in any slot. There are 8 "Setlists" which are simply "BANKS" of 128 presets. Backup the Factory setlists if you think you might need those presets, then copy a BLANK SETLIST over the FACTORY setlists and you've got 1024 (8*128) potential preset locations to use any way you like. If you need to quickly get from a preset in SETLIST 1 to a preset in some other setlist, use MIDI.

Helix LT supports the concept of Setlists. You can create up to 8 Setlists, each containing up to 128 presets in Banks 1-32 and Preset locations/slots A through D. You can fill those preset locations in any order you want, and fill them by creating new presets or by copying existing presets including Factory presets. Check the Setlists and Snapshots sections of the manual. Come back with specific questions as you do the following: The idea is that you can prepare your device for a gig in advance by creating a Setlist for the gig. Name the Setlist whatever you want (e.g. Pub Saturday). Begin populating your setlist with presets, starting with creating/copying the preset you want to use for your opening song in Preset 1A. If you want to change your tone for various parts of the song, say for the Intro part vs. the Verse part vs. the Lead part, you use Snapshots to create those different tonal parts within the same preset. As you switch snapshots for the various parts of the song there is no audio dropout. When satisfied that your first song is as you want it, move on to your second song using Preset 1B. During the gig there will be a brief audio dropout as you switch presets. That’s why you make the switch between songs, so nobody notices. Again use Snapshots as desired. Then move on the Preset 1C for your third song, and so on for all songs in your set. And don’t forget to include your encore song(s) at the end, after the standing ovation! Prepare your device in advance for the entire gig, arranging your presets in the order in which you plan to play the songs to make the tap dancing of preset switching as simple and as least distracting as possible during the gig. While your device will only hold 8 Setlists at a time you can store as many different Setlists (and Presets) as you want on your computer using HX Edit and swap them in/out as desired.

On another forum a few days ago, we heard that 1.4 was close to release, and 1.5 is in dev (or something to that effect). I'm going to guess 1.5 is still happening this year.

You need to do this in the User preset area, not in a setlist. When done within a setlist it simply creates a copy of the original, with the same name, on the assumption that you plan to use the same preset at different points during the set. If you want to use a new preset in that particular Setlist slot you need to create the new preset in the User preset area, use the Save As operation to rename it, and then assign it to the Setlist slot.

So far as I am aware, Snapshots can change the parameter settings of a block, but not the device represented by the block. On Fractal modellers, you can have up to four different devices (amps, drives etc) within the channels of a block, and the channels can be changed with snapshots or scenes. With Helix or Stadium, it is one device per block within a preset. A different IR is a different device, and only one can be assigned to a block.