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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.

I will be taking a two week hiatus from music starting this week. Hope you all have a great Christmas and a fun filled entrance into 2026. This will be the first year I did not applied for any music jobs during the end of year and first of year since 1967. My present to my family and myself is to be present this whole period. If I do not appear active for the next few weeks I am not being rude. Maybe you all and the Line 6 staff you may read this have a wonderful time this season! jpd

If you are on Windows, please look in Device Manager and let us know if you see 'Helix Stadium Bulk Transfer' listed under 'Other Devices.' You may see a blue question mark inside a white circle associated with it. That means the Line 6's Windows USB driver didn't load which will explain the Stadium app crashing every time you attempt to connect to the Stadium XL. I have a support ticket submitted for this. For me personally, it is a moot issue at this point since I decided to order a MacBook Air to work around the issue.

Just received the THON (Thomann) case for my Stadium. I love their cases - have been using one for many years. Built like a tank AND cheaper than the backpack :). It can be operated from inside the lid. It has room in front (where the vents are) and the unit sits suspended by foam sides about 2 cm in the air, so there is plenty of room for heat dissipation underneath. There is also room behind the unit, for the power cable.

please check to see if you have it set (global settings) to automatically assign the block to a footswitch. If this is set to manual, then adding a wah or volume will not work correctly until you make their assignments manually. easiest fix is to delete them, turn on the automatic add and add them again. Hope that helps.

Yes. In your Stomp XL preset use separate amp and cab models (not an integrated amp+cab) and place a SEND block between the amp and cab blocks in the signal chain. Connect the SEND output to the amp’s cab input. Connect the main outputs to FOH. Make sure the output and input levels match. You can position any FX blocks before or after the SEND block depending on whether you want them to be heard in your onstage cab or not.

Yes. That’s what I did: backup factory reset restore backup delete songs reimport kind of a pain but it’s still working for me!

Great discussion. Being able to recall songs via midi (with an associated Preset) will be critical for me (and I suspect others). I may delay purchasing the Stadium until I know this feature has been added. In my small acoustic duo, I use OnSong on an iPad to send PC changes to my devices (BeatBuddy, HX Stomp, and Rc500 looper (backing tracks)) for each/every song. I then use a Morningstar MC8 to control these devices while performing the song. My intent is/was for the Stadium to replace the HX Stomp, RC500, and Morningstar (smaller footprint and less complexity). I go into every gig with a pre-built setlist (in OnSong), but invariably every show is different and we make changes on-the-fly depending on the vibe in the room, audience requests, etc. In those situations, all I need to do is select the song in OnSong, and it loads the beats and/or backing tracks and presets across all my devices - no menu diving, no tap dancing. I get that I could build Setlists (presets) or Playlists (songs) in Stadium, but those don't seem to easily allow for flexibility when ad-hoc set list changes are taking place. The internal Set Lists/Play Lists probably will work fine for larger shows with pre-defined lists that won't likely change. For smaller acts, we're going to need flexibility to call up songs (with associated presets) in a much more flexible manner. Showcase has such promise to help smaller acts add new elements to their shows and I hope Line6 can incorporate features that meet the needs of both large and small acts/performers.

I spent a lot of time going through the settings the Tone War guy suggested for all the metal amps and got those where they sounded great. I came across this by accident looking for different blocks to try...At the very end of your final chain get a stereo model of the Bass DI (located in the Dist section) put the Bass and Treb at 4-5 and the level to suit, this will give your preset a full rich low end def and sparkle presence no EQ or Comp can do. Try it you will be adding it to your presets asap. I have no idea what it was intended for but man it fixes the punch and feel of the real amp that is missing.

I spent most of my career in technical training and education in the private sector (i.e. a business, not a publicly funded institution). Prepare for a potential short term expression of ‘need’ (desire, actually), followed by a deafening silence once the actual cost per student for business viability is known. But please, everyone, surprise me! Indicate in your expression of need how much you would be willing to pay per hour of learning.

he is in Stomp A mode... he used Control Center to assign the snapshots to the five FS's on the bottom row.

Not with the looper flags, those should not involve midi. The use of the midi flags is my workaround for the issue. They work better than the dedicated looper flags.

Harrumph! I love a good forum storm-off...;)

Here’s the only difference I did which has worked for me. Hope it works for you too. Delete songs (maintenance menu) backup (maintenance menu) factory reset (maintenance menu) restore backup (maintenance menu) reimport (Stadium App)

I have logged this issue and am currently working with Line 6 support. So far, they have confirmed that there are some known issues when exporting presets to Stadium. I have found that creating a preset exclusively on the Stadium and not using the Stadium App has not produced the issues that I have seen on the Stadium App, including this one. I have successfully created two inline cabinets (both using File files), and have been able to use Snapshots to change the IR files with no problem on the Stadium (I don't believe that this can be done reliably in the Stadium App until they resolve the Cabinet/Snapshot issues we are seeing.

I have rebooted the stadium after this happened. I can recreate the issue with my presets as well just by booting it up and then switching between specific presets I have. No sound coming from the unit and matrix mixer shows sound graph (the green leds that would usually show a signal) but they are all at the same half way level with no sound coming out and not input from the guitar. If I reboot, everything comes back and I get normal sound again and normal input readings. I then play for a little bit, and then swtich presets and it happens again over and over again. I am opening a support ticket as well but was wondering if anyone else has had issues with this one? It's a pretty bad bug and makes me nervous about playing this live right now.

Agreed with you all. I am still trying to figure out how the preset management is better now in the Stadium over the Helix. I assume that it would have something to do with Showcase and saving songs. But for now, it is just confusing to me. But what I DO understand is that I have half of the preset storage capacity on the Stadium as opposed to the Helix. I know that I might be able to use multiple SD cards. And 512 presets is still more than enough for any particular show. Still, I found myself swapping out Set lists on the Helix pretty regularly for Preset Development, Play-Along Set Lists, Sunday Set Setlists, Christmas, Top 100 songs, Bass Guitar Set lists, recording, etc. But this only allowed me to at least always have a backup of a set list that I needed to offload in order to create a new one or bring another one in. Remember, we could have 8 Setlists of 128 songs! So far, I have had to reset my Stadium back to Factory several times due to buggy issues and that has only made preset management MORE problematic trying NOT to lose presets that I had created so far (which is not very many yet, either. Remember to ALWAYS SAVE (like the early days of Windows!)

I think we’re going to see improvements in how setlists are implemented in a future firmware update (but I have no basis for that expectation; purely speculation). The idea of using aliases with a single copy of a USER preset is a good one, imho, but the current implementation is a bit confusing to me. Like you, I also see no point in having a setlist file on my computer that has nothing but aliases. I also don’t understand the frequent appearance of a numbered suffix. e.g. (1) behind a USER preset’s name when importing setlists.

I submitted all this to the product feedback. My set lists are per band as well. So I see what you're saying but I don't see it being a problem at least for my personal scenario. Especially as I won't be using showcase at all. the SD card thing just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through. I'm currently still of the opinion that the old Helix way of doing things was actually better, but I'm trying to adapt to the new way to make sure it's not just a case of "familiarity" vs. "new." It used to be so simple and easy to just swap in/out setlists which also included the presets.

@rwanderingThanks for the info… I am guessing that you are right that the D10 will receive power from the Stadium XL. Also, I found the D10 dimensions on the Thomann website - Expand D10 dimensions: 40.6 x 138 x 99.7 mm

I built this satellite board for use with my Stadium XL with a space for the future Expand D-10 I guessed the size of the D10 box by scaling to the size of the known ethercon connector in one of the pix. If anyone at Line 6 knows, here are some questions… 1. what are the actual dimensions of the D-10? (found this on Thomann Dimensions: 40.6 x 138 x 99.7 mm) 2. is the D-10 phantom powered by the Stadium Nexus port or by the USB-C port? 3. what is the current draw of the D-10? thanks! Joe

Yes, there is an editor that runs on Mac. The program/app is called Stadium.

If you know of any easy ways to view all of the Block assignments at a glance, then put them here. You could easily view all of the block "BYPASS/CONTROLLER ASSIGN"ments in the HX Edit App as there was a panel devoted to it. I could easily see all 23 (just kidding, 2 or 3) blocks that might be assigned to a footswitch. I hope that they include that in the Stadium eventually.

In the Stadium Global Settings -> Ins/Outs set the XLR Out Level to Line. The default setting is Mic which explains why that’s what you’re getting.

The issue was confirmed and reproduced by line 6 support. fingers crossed!

That's a known bug. Will be fixed in a future firmware release. You should open a support ticket to report it anyway.

Nevermind, I figured it our. After selecting a set list via the touchscreen, you also need to actually load a preset from that setlist. Once you do that all the scribble strips update to reflect the setlist. I thought I just needed to select the setlist name and the scribble strips would update.

This has bee posted before. In summary: 1. when building presets, make sure your overall volume for a blank preset is around the same as the actual preset you are creating to avoid clipping. 2. set up XLR volume to be Mic level and disable the volume knob, so it's fixed. This will go to the FOH and will never change the level, because you don't want to confuse the sound guy by having different volume levels. 3. use the volume knob to only control 1/4" out which is your monitor mix, or in my case which is going to a power amp (Mooer Baby Bomb) into a 12" speaker cab.

I think one of the most frequent “write your requests down on a $10 bill” situations could be the solo singer/guitarist playing to relatively small crowds, where the atmosphere can be a bit more intimate and an audience relationship can be established. MIDI Song selection, driven by an app on an iPad or whatever, would be very helpful. For that situation, with or without MIDI Song triggers, I would really like to see a re-introduction of a feature I loved in the old POD X3 Live device: Lock Tone 2. On Stadium it would be called Lock Path B. The idea is that you could maintain your vocal tone with the Mic input on Path B while switching presets for your different guitar tones on Path A. I’m going to submit this as a feature request (again). I did submit this request for OG Helix but….. Come to think of it, OG Helix has a Preset Spillover feature that is essentially a “Block Path B I’m using if for spillover” implementation. Might be feasible to tweak it for “Lock Path B I’m using it for vocals”.

That’s available now in the Command Center. Here’s a clip from the manual…. The Song command category is supported by all source controller types other than expression pedals or X-Axis/Y-Axis controllers. This category includes Song View commands to control song transport functions, navigate between existing songs, or select markers within the current song. This can be a convenient way to load and play songs directly from your preset, without having to change to the dedicated Song View screen.

Then I hope this is something that gets addressed in a future update. As a performer, I cannot be bending down and scrolling through Songs to load them...or clicking the arrow buttons 20 times to get to the 21st song in my list. Being able to recall both Presets and Songs via midi is a must. Or, maybe an option would be to use and Instant Command to load the Song when you recall a Preset? I did see that you create Set list of Songs. Are Song and Present Setlist different? Or, can a Setlist contain both Songs and Presets?

Can’t do that yet. I say ‘yet’ because I know it’s been requested and one implementation method is just a matter of providing a Save to Clip option in the Looper. No idea when, though.

Having updated to 1.2 I am coming across myriads of unwanted snapshot bypass and snapshot control. Most of the presets were imported when I was on 1.1, and the amps now also have snapshot control assigned in addition to the Expression control that was there originally. This was apparently a bug in 1.1 which has been fixed in 1.2. What is still happening is inconsistent copying/pasting of blocks with control assignments. When copying and pasting in the editor, the assignments disappear. This also often happens when using the touchscreen on the Stadium. However I have found that saving the original block as a favourite (using the touchscreen and not the editor), and then creating a new block from the favourite, does usually work and preserves the control assignments.

I'm wondering if the Stadium will have any or updated vocal effect integration similar to Headrush. I have been waiting for Line 6 to do this with my current Helix Floor but I guess it's never been a priority. I'd like to have a single unit to handle vocals and guitar that uses all new tech.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply — overall, I agree with several of the points you raised. That said, I believe this goes beyond education understood purely as a business opportunity. Helix (and now Helix Stadium) has clearly evolved into a complex sound design platform, not simply a pedal or a traditional piece of hardware. Beyond a certain level of complexity, isolated tutorials, forum posts, and third-party videos are no longer sufficient to support a meaningful, deep, and sustained learning process. In this context, many modern platforms — Ableton being a good example — provide a complete learning ecosystem: extensive and well-structured manuals, deep documentation, official courses, seminars, and clear learning paths. Not everything is paid, but everything is organized and designed as a progressive journey. With Helix, by contrast, it often feels like that journey stops halfway. Today, the experience can feel as if users are handed an extremely powerful and deep tool, but then left largely on their own, forced to move forward blindly — guessing how things work and collecting scattered, incomplete, or even contradictory information across forums, videos, and isolated online resources. This is not a lack of creativity, but a lack of a clear framework to channel it. This is not only about explaining individual features, but about helping users build a global understanding of the system: how to think about Helix as a platform, how to approach complex workflows, and how to coherently and creatively combine signal paths, blocks, MIDI control, the editor/app, and tools like Showcase. At a certain point, the experience feels like being handed a spaceship capable of traveling through time, exploring the universe, and navigating parallel realities — but without clear manuals, proper training, or a defined learning route. The ship is incredible, but learning how to pilot it becomes an exercise in trial and error rather than a guided process. The existence and popularity of third-party books and resources clearly show that there is a real need that Helix is not currently covering in an official way. This educational gap is not a minor detail — it’s a sign that the platform has surpassed the level of complexity that can reasonably be supported by basic documentation and fragmented learning alone. Even if education is not the core business focus, deeper documentation and structured education would have a direct impact on user experience, long-term retention, and the perceived value of the Helix ecosystem.

lwilliams, Have you created a ticket to "poke" support on this issue? The more of us havign this issue who create tickets the higher up the "fixit" ladder it will go. I have been restoring from backup. I may try resetting to default and then manually setting up the global EQ to see what happens. If I only use the default settings it seems to work as expected. I have discovered using the default settings works with the App. But once I restore the sync between the app and the Stadium is sporadic at best. I have been told they are working on the sync part for 1.3 and to wait for the next upgrade ( possibly right after NAMM if not just before or during). jpd

You've already tried a factory reset. You could try reinstalling the FW using the "Line6 Updater" which should have installed with HX Edit. Otherwise, open a support ticket.

Hey, what a coïncidence, I just build an app to create a preset on Windows or MacOS using AI to craft the sound, see this post : I also thought about a mobile version, but how will you push your preset to the device ?

Silverhead, thanks a lot for your explanation, and you're right, I'm going to write this request, following your link.

This was discussed in another topic here but I can't find it at the moment. Short story is that this is not (yet?) possible and others want to see this too. The feeling is that a solution could be to use MIDI commands for Song operations. In other words, preset selection could trigger operations for a specific Song (e.g.playback) via the Command Center. If you want to add your voice to this suggestion submit a feature request here: https://line6.com/company/contact/productfeedback/

Nope. Generally NOT using Hype. Though I do not own any of the Amps that I typically use in the Stadium, I prefer the unvarnished tone from the Amps I have used so far. Though, I may admit that I will go in and use it as a Tone knob. (In other words, I use everything at my disposal to get the tone that I think sits best in the mix - from my guitar, to the Hype Control. I do have it turned up to maybe 2.2 on one of my presets. Building presets takes some time since I use Snapshots and often IR's (though I generally prefer the Line 6 Cabinets - Tone changes when I use an IR and I may like it!) - So... I often spend time re-building Presets so far... due to bugs and L6 work in progress on the Stadium. :-(

Tha nks for the tips Dandesy

Just submitted a ticket for the same problem but I did notice that during it happening when I checked the matrix screen all my signal was frozen and no sound coming through. I just turned it off and on to fix it though. Hasn’t happened to me at all until these last few days and it happened before the update so I don’t think it’s that. I’m probably just gonna do a factory reset and see if that fixes it. Happened during a live gig and fortunately I thought to turn it off and back on which got me going again quick.

Mine periodically disconnects. My WiFi signal is strong, so it must be a bug.

Thanks for reposting that here. You are helpful as I remember (been a while since I’ve been on). Good reminder of the D10 features in context. Can’t wait to see what all Line 6 offers for Nexus. It is cool what they’ve done with just the D10.

Here’s the product description. I guess you can read some capabilities into it. The Expand D10 digital I/O expansion unit greatly increases the flexibility of Helix Stadium processors. Connect Variax® modeling guitars using VDI and Powercab® 112+/212+ active guitar speaker systems using L6 LINK™. It also expands the ways in which Helix Stadium processors may be used with audio interfaces, digital mixers, multi-connector breakout boxes, and other devices via 8-channel optical out. Features • Variax Digital Interface (VDI), L6 LINK, AES/EBU, and 8-channel optical connectivity • Connect Variax modeling guitars via VDI • Connect Powercab 112+/212+ active guitar speaker systems via L6 LINK • Send two channels of AES/EBU digital audio at 44.1kHz or 48kHz • Send up to 8 channels of digital audio over TOSLINK optical • Connects to Helix Stadium processors with a Cat6 cable via Nexus

This should be a priority, and besides maybe the separating of vocals from guitar, there’s not much that needs added. Auto tune, harmonizer, doubler or chior, and a de-esser, everything else could be pulled from the guitar effects, but it doesn’t seem to be getting mentioned much.

I HAVE SOLVED IT! I put the default.cfg file from the Monkey workaround post in the MonkeyCore folder mentioned above and the 500X is now detected by license manager and I was then able to authorise it. After restarting License Manager, the packs appeared in the add-ons list. I then had the option to install the packs and after several minutes of programming the hardware, it said I needed to power cycle the 500X, which I did. THE PACKS ARE NOW INSTALLED! They show up under the model packs menu on the 500X and I am able to use them. I have told support how I did it also. Thanks hurghanico for giving me idea on what the issue is. Link to the post with the file Put the default.cfg file from this post at C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Line 6\MonkeyCore\default.cfg

Hey. I am attempting to sync tempo/delay to my DL4 MkII using Reason 12.7 running on a MacBook with Sonoma 14.2.1 with Nektar's T4 keyboard being used as the MIDI interface. It worked about a week ago, but has since stopped syncing tempo/delay functions. All other MIDI data transmits to the DL4, so I'm confused why I can't sync the delay settings to the MIDI out tempo. I recently purchased the DL4 so it has the latest firmware. My MIDI cable is brand new. I've reset to factory settings on both the T4 and the DL4. Any help would be appreciated. ~steve

I'm also getting this error but I can log in on the website, what gives?