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There should be three categories of effects - MONO, STEREO and LEGACY. If not, you may need to do a factory reset. Backup your setlists first!

Easiest way (sample preset attached): You can record Helix Processed (zero latency monitoring, Track 1), Direct (for use with Native, Track 2) and Streaming or Backing tracks (Track 3). Take the XLR Outs from Helix into the 2i2 to get sound, but use the Helix as your Audio Interface. Take the Headphone Out from your PC to Helix Return 1 & 2. In Windows Sound Panel, you may have to go into Speaker Properties>Levels and set it at least halfway to get enough signal from Streaming/Backing tracks. Then you'll be able to use the Volume control in the app (Spotify, Media Player, whatever) to get a balance with Helix. You can use headphones either from Helix or the 2i2, whichever sounds better. Note that the Track Input Monitor Buttons for the Helix Tracks are OFF. Switch them to AUTO for Playback after recording. To use Native, insert it on another track and send the audio from Track 2 (TURN OFF RECORD!) to the Track with Native. That way, you won't overwrite the clean track. Hope that covers it. I'd never needed to think about this before, because it's SO much easier with the 18i20, but it was a fun brain twister! Any questions, feel free! EDIT: In the screenshot, the input for Path 2A in the preset says Return 3/4. I have Helix Floor and I was thinking that would leave you not needing to rewire every time, but LT has only two FX Loops, so just use Returns 1/2 there and rewire as necessary. webb819.hlx

And we know what bitching about that will get us.......A LOCKED THREAD! I see what you did, you edited it to avoid political implications. But we ALL know who you're talking about.....nod nod, wink wink ;-)

Fortunately, MOST people can tell the difference between bitching and being excited. Also fortunate that MOST people know the difference between "Some people" and "Everyone". Lastly, Freedom of Speech means that you're free to lollipop all you like. It also means that others are free to criticize you for it.

Global Settings>MIDI/Tempo page 2. Here's the Ableton config screen:

Not possible. Go here: https://line6.ideascale.com/ Search first! THEN post a new idea.

As long as MIDI over USB is enabled, you don't need any special cables, just the same USB that you use with HX Edit.

If the guitar is sending a signal through the cable (verify with a real amp) and there's no signal at the Helix, do a factory reset and if the problem persists open a support ticket.

Yes, you can defeat the tweeter in the PC112+ either through HX Edit OR on Helix itself. Keep in mind that modelers are a sort of "virtual reality" and that ITRW guitar cabs are a form of coloration added to the signal chain. Once you're no longer using a real guitar cab it becomes simply a matter of adding color to your sound. An IR is a simulation of what a specific cabinet in a specific room with a specific mic sounds like. You can put it anywhere in the signal chain that sounds best to you. It's not real. To clarify, I was talking about the PC112+. The XLR Out takes the Input signal and speaker emulation (pre volume knob), adds a virtual SM57 mic, and sends it out the XLR. Changing the stage level on the PC112+ has no effect on the XLR out. Considering that the physical speaker is out of the loop, it sounds VERY similar through the PA. The FRFR112 just takes whatever signal level is going to the speaker and sends it to FOH at that level. The FOH guy will hate you if you change the level on him! There's two schools of thought on this. One is that "Gear is for the musician, not the audience". If you like the way you sound on stage, you'll play better, and the audience experience will thus be enhanced. Let the FOH guy worry about what it sounds like out front. The other school is that you're a paid performer and it's ALL about the audience. It doesn't really matter if you sound like crap through your stage monitors, as long as the audience gets the intended sound. I think the answer is both. The problem is "dialing in the presets at home". Home is NEVER the same as the venue, and every venue is different. If you're going old school, you're dialing in your amp at the venue, and the FOH guy takes care of the audience. I expect that, even with great modelers, there's always going to be some dialing in at the venue. How practical that is will depend largely on how many and how different the sounds you use are, and how produced your show is. Do you have TIME to dial in the specific sounds for every song? If not, then you need to dial in the sounds at home, at gig levels, through FRFR (PA) speakers, as DD said. One nice thing about having a PC112+ is that I can have a sound I like on stage, and use an FRFR (PA Speaker) with a separate signal path and XLR out direct from the Helix, dialed in to accomodate the audience using a PA speaker. Best of both worlds. This is what I was getting at when I talked about how much air a 1-12 can push. A 50 watt amp through a 4-12 cab is WAY louder sounding than that same amp through a 1-12. A mic'd 1-12 cab can sound great on stage and benefit FOH house sound by not killing the fans at the edge of the stage or forcing on stage volume wars like a 4-12 can, but there's always bleed into the mic from other sounds on stage. A PC112+ is, again, best of both worlds. "The best of times, the worst of times". So much to think about, so many options. So few opportunities to play for a live audience. Death to the evil virus!

The following is entirely IMO. The coaxial speaker in the PC112+ can be used FRFR with IRs like the FRFR112, but the nature of the speaker and guitar style cab makes it sound better than the FRFR112. The speaker emulations do not use the tweeter component of the speaker, which then behaves like a guitar speaker in a guitar cab - because it IS a guitar speaker. The emulations add the "color" of the emulated speakers, and the whole thing sounds like the fabled "AITR". From HX Edit (using L6 Link with a proper AES cable) you can change the speaker being emulated till you find ones you like with your assorted presets, or you can use IRs located in the Helix or, to save DSP, on the PC112+, keeping in mind that using IRs on the PC112+ always places the IR at the end of the signal chain, whereas using IRs on the Helix you can put the IR anywhere in the signal chain. I have an FRFR112 also. It sounds fine. It's basically an Alto TS312 tuned slightly differently for guitar, with no mic preamp. It's not a cheap POS as some would have you believe, and I have not seen ANY complaints about dependability. That said, nobody (that I know of) uses them on world tours. The FRFR112 is 1000w RMS - 650 watts LF/350 watts HF. I don't know how the PC112+ breaks out, all the specs say is 250w RMS. It's plenty loud for a stage monitor, and if you take the XLR out to FOH, that's UNITY, not affected by the stage level, and no mic required. A 50 or even 100 watt tube amp through a 112 is not going to be much louder, because a 112 only pushes so much air. I forget the math, but 650 watts is not actually that much louder than 250 watts, and 350 watts through a 2" tweeter at high spl is not pleasant. In the end, it's horses for courses. If you think you need a 100 watt stack, then neither the PC112+ nor the HR FRFR112 is gonna do it for you. But either one will make a satisfactory amount of noise in a small to medium club setting. What sounds BEST is entirely subjective. Only you can decide. To sum it up, I prefer my PC112+, but wouldn't hesitate to go back to using the FRFR112 if I had to. One last thing - if you get the the FRFR112, get a short (not full size) PA speaker stand so that you can have it at approximately chest level and vertical for best dispersion.

It's a computer. Sometimes computers glitch. If it happens again open a support ticket. Meanwhile, things to look at are: USB cable Power source - quality EMI/RFI filtered power strip? Are you using a hub? Try a different USB Port - some USB Ports are actually internal hubs.

If you're creating dual use presets you'll likely want to use separate processing paths for each and pan them L/R so you can control the final output level from the FRFR112 or a small mixer.

I'm surprised you got that much out of it. This is a proprietary switching device that is specific to the amps it's compatible with. The manual gives no helpful info. I very much doubt that you'll be able to control your amp using Helix.

For BEST sound, instead of FRFR112, get Powercab112+, use the speaker emulation (not an IR), and send to FOH from XLR on PC112+. BUT - if you can't afford PC112+, in Global Settings>INS/OUTS set "Volume Knob Controls" to 1/4", send the 1/4" to the FRFR(112) at LINE LEVEL, and send XLR (which will have UNITY GAIN) to FOH. That gives you stage level control from Helix BIG (VOLUME) KNOB and sends a consistent level signal to FOH. Usually set XLR to LINE level for that unless FOH says it's TOO HOT, then set XLR to MIC level.

When you've been around here a while you'll realize that everybody has a feature that they can't understand why it wasn't in the original release, but that lots of other users couldn't care less about. In nature, the process of adding features is called "evolution", and it takes millions of years. The feature you're asking for will be here a lot sooner than that! I don't know if the Headrush has this feature, but I do know that there's so much more that it's missing (IMO) that if I was buying again today it would still be a Helix. YMMV.

Create a preset specifically for saving "custom" blocks. If you have many, create specific storage presets - "OD', Dist","Reverb" etc. Coming in either 2.9 or 3.0, I forget, "FAVORITES", which will do what you're asking, but for now, above is the best you can do.

Because the guitar input has an Input Impedance setting that's critical for getting the best from certain effects, you're better off running the mic/mixer into the FX return and keeping the guitar in the guitar input. However, if you're using a wireless it probably doesn't matter, as your wireless is 1meg anyhow.

Set the two devices to different MIDI Channels and specify the device by Channel in Command Center.

In Global Settings>Ins/Outs set Volume Controls to Headphones. This gives a constant UNITY output on the 1/4" Outs. Use MONO Effects only. Send one of the 1/4"" Outs to your FRFR and the other to FOH. Control your FRFR Volume from the FRFR, or put a small mixer or something between the Stomp and FRFR. You could also use a Send Block, but that wastes a Block.

Attach your preset so we can look at it. Meanwhile, double check your cables: Guitar>Helix Input>Effects>FX Loop 1 Block>Helix Send 1>Amp Input>Amp FX Loop Send>Helix Return 1>Effects>Helix Left/Mono Out>Amp FX Loop Return

I hear ya! Native is great for no fuss re-amping, but for live, in the moment recording, not so much.

USB 1/2 IN Trim might work, but you'll have an easier time just using the application's output volume control.

Native won't do MIDI program/preset changes except in Logic and maybe some other DAWs (see manual). It won't do program changes in Reaper. Snapshots and any other MIDI need to be set up in CommandCenter of the Helix preset that you're using to send audio and MIDI to your DAW.

Doesn't matter if it's set to MULTI or DIGITAL. What do you mean? 0db where? In Focusrite control, are you seeing a similar level to my screenshot?

DAW means Digital Audio Workstation. For all intents and purposes it refers to Digital recording software. If you'r allergic to reading manuals, forget it. Buy a Hardware Digital Recorder, they're virtually identical in basic function to old school tape decks. If you're capable of reading and comprehending manuals, download Reaper. It's full featured, has an unlimited trial period ($60 when you're ready) and has extensive video (available from the Cockos Reaper site), tons of documentation and a VERY active and helpful forum. There are other FREE DAWs of course, I've tried most of them Reaper is the best and most stable. Once you've done that, I can help with your Helix related Reaper questions.