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yes they have higher-priced gear, but I wrote "more than 500€ for a pedal" and when I talk about actuator vs real switches I'm not talking about analog vs digital anything (the pod is all digital), I'm talking about this (the circled one is the DL4 original actuator, the other one is a heavy duty *professional* switch): (image taken from http://www.ebay.com/itm/Line-6-DL4-Double-Presets-Mod-Service-/320764764006) as you can see the DL4 switches *looked* like real switches from the outside of the unit but they weren't, I was wondering if this is the case for the HD500X too

• Christian Arnold's video is well done [ exept for the +5 semitones which is a 4th not a 5th ;-) ] so +20% means one heavy DSP effect block more, that could be useful but not game changing • I'm really happy if the firmware upgrades will continue for hd500/hd500x and I can understand this could mean extending the life of the 500* line, but I don't think that creating an HD1000 would mean "abandoning the 500 line altogether", look at the M5, M9 and M13: they just have different targets; it seems like line6 thinks none of their customers would spend more than 500€ for a pedal... or have they fear to compete with other brands in the 1000€ range? Actually there aren't many, because the most are on the 1500€ range or more: DV Mark Multiamp, Kemper, G-System (1200 without ampsim) only the Eleven would be a direct competitor... • anyway I'd like to see the interior of the HD500x to see how "professional" theese switches are... like the DL4 ones? even if they seemed pro switches, they actually were "actuators" http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/pedals/120245-line-6-dl4-repair.html

I totally agree that the DSP power of the HD500 AND of the HD500x is less than needed, but sorry marcwormjim, I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this: follow me on this: I can say with a good level of confidence that the Pod HD was the first affordable device to use freely assignable fx blocks; any rack or pedalboard multifx I tried before, limited you to use only some kind of effects on each of the block this means that you could not put three distortion pedals or 3 delay pedals or even an octaver and a wha in some cases that was for the manufacturer to be shure that anything you loaded wouldn't overload the CPU now, the ability to use for example many delays in series and parallel was one of the reasons I bought the HD500 and you CAN do that, but, to be able to give you freely assignable fx blocks, the DSP MUST be "dynamic" I think 8 reverbs is too much. but two parallel chains with distortion, amp, modulation (or pitch), delay and reverb on each should be possible and the HD500 AND the HD500x CANNOT do that! in this sense I agree with you when you say that the HD500 and HD500x have an inadequate DSP power (and other hardware flaws) so to summarise I don't think the DSP should provide the power to load ANY effect configuration, but at least it should give us double the DSP power of the HD500

...and with "non-professional grade footswitches" as Line6 clearly admits now! As I wrote in the old forum (http://line6.com/support/message/353044#353044 ; btw why in the hell did they close the old forum?!? too full of criticism, maybe?) and to Line6 through a feature request, I would pay twice (1000€) for a "POD HD1000" with double processing power and various flaws solved

yes "more is more" so, for the price of the hd500x minus selling my hd500, I could buy an hd bean and keep my hd500 getting double dsp power and more complex routing capabilities! ..now THAT is more! what pisses me off (and all hd500 owners I think) is that I now own a discontinued product, replaced by something that isn't worth the difference in price... AT LEAST I hope, since the architecture is the same, that new updates of the firmware will be valid for the hd500 too...