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Consider giving the following a try, it's an excerpt from Chapter 4 (Poly Block) from my eBook on the Heilx. I use Helix a lot to do pseudo-Nashville tuning. One day it hit me that the only reason the two top strings of a 12-string are doubled is because of physical limitations. So, I wanted to come up with something that had the vibe of a 12-string, but also, had some of the octave-higher top two strings mixed in subtly. The green text has no special significance, it just refers to other presets included with the book. The Poly Capo is transposed up an octave. Hope this helps! Gourmet 12-String The Gourmet12-String preset (fig. 4.13) wraps processors around the Poly Capo to produce a rich, bright, big 12-string sound for stereo or mono. It’s optimized for the bridge pickup, but other pickup positions work too. This is based on the LayeredNashville preset. However, the sound is more like one guitar than layered guitars, because the second EQ (Low/High Shelf) doesn’t emphasize the highs as much. Also, to give a 12-string’s characteristic shimmer, the Dual Delay toward the output adds subtle modulation. The crucial difference is the Simple Delay that precedes the Poly Capo. With a physical 12-string, there’s a slight delay (around 20-25 ms) between hitting the main string and its associated octave string. The Simple Delay emulates this effect. Your ears identify this as part of a 12-string’s characteristic sound. Figure 4.13 For a synthetic 12-string sound from a digital effects processor, this preset comes very close. For live performance, only some blocks are suitable for footswitching. All the blocks before the Mixer are essential parts of the 12-string sound. The post-Mixer Delay and Reverb are good candidates for footswitching. One (or both) compressors can also benefit from footswitching. Then you can call up sounds that are more or less compressed.

If you are editing your snapshots, simply bypass / un-bypass things you need; then click save. That's all you need to do. Bypass-assign is IMO completely unnecessary feature that is buggy as well. I went through all my presets and removed that assignment. It used to cause the state of auto-engaged effects to flip for me. 2 examples from my presets. 1. you want to have snapshot 1 be dirty, and snapshot 2 be clean: simply un-bypass the distortion block in snapshot 1, save. Then bypass distortion block in snapshot 2, save. 2. You have your wah-wah auto-engaged past 5%. But in snapshot 3 you want the wah-wah to be disabled, even if the expression pedal is engaged: Remove any snapshot-bypass controls. Bypass is assigned to the Expression pedal 2: its state flips after 5% engagement, and turns off if less than 5% after 350 ms. Assign the "mix" parameter to snapshots. Go to snapshot 3, set mix parameter of wah to 0, save. You have effectively bypassed the wah in that snapshot--it's on but mixed out. I use this trick if I want to control something else in snapshot 3, like some filter.

I did a web search about this but found nothing. The more I use other USB interfaces, the more I wonder why Line6 discontinued interfaces like my UX1. I've had it since, I don't even know--more than 10 years, and it works perfectly. I also really appreciate being able to record the wet guitar signal direct from the standalone app, using my pedals, with little to no noise (or no more than one would expect), and no noticeable latency. I also have a Mackie Onyx Producer 2-2 which works just fine--but I don't think it works better. It's only advantages are in-built phantom power and its heavy, metal-encased build quality (the UX1 is flimsy by comparison and I often think I should duct-tape it to my desk--but it hasn't broken yet!). And to be honest, I still really like the old PODFarm software. I compared its models to the ones available on Positive Grid Bias FX 2 (which I also have) and I don't really notice any inferiority in that regard--and you can't record the wet guitar signal from the Bias fx standalone app. And I have more models in PODfarm! I read that many people prefer to record dry and use plugins for guitar models, but I often don't see the point. I know what tones I want! Honestly, I prefer to record my own real amps, but family aren't too happy when I crank a tube amp in the basement--so nice modeling software is very convenient to have around! So, hopefully my UX1 will continue to work for another ten years! But why oh why doesn't Line6 make updated versions? tG