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+1 me too also

Septicide - how about posting a "HOW TO" guide? Hopefully, you could do it without all the vituperous foul mouth sexist language? In the kind of non-technical terms that would allow those of us who'd rather spend our time playing music than learning the technical details of 15 different Linux distros to get it done on whatever audio (and don't forget MIDI) hardware we happen to own? My Windows pro allows me to run Linux side by side with Windows, and many of us would try it. My guess is that you won't because you're all talk and mostly full of lollipop.

+1 Fremen.

Is it compatible with my C64? Does it come with one of those cool musical modem thingies? I need to be able to connect to CompuServe for social networking....

You should've done more research, or upgraded your PC. I'm running an ancient Core2 Duo with 8 MB, and a 128GB SSD. No problems with VSTs, DAW (Sonar, Ableton) or anything else for that matter, and it runs BETTER under Windows 10. Now that you've drunk the LINUX Kool-Aid, all I can say is GOOD LUCK! As far as people moving away from Microsoft to LINUX and OSX being the wave of the future, that's nonsense. I've looked into it and, for AVERAGE USERS (as opposed to sound production professionals and studios), while OSX has some attractions, LINUX doesn't get it. Not enough money (or musically talented socialists) in it to make it work. Also, I support the death penalty for hackers. I might change my opinion on that if, instead of just talking about it, some of the brilliant LINUX hackers out there would actually write some of these drivers. I've been having this discussion with y'all for several years, but still nothing of substance from the Penguin Isles. Lastly, there's LOTS of action on the OSX front, especially in the mobile area, but it's STILL a tiny fraction of the market and, like it or not, most of us who work do it for money.

Using the "Instant" Commands in Command Center, you can send PCs to devices on separate channels, and change banks, too. I set up a simple test preset, and it sends the proper messages, as verified in MIDIOX. Though I don't have any hardware to test it on, it should work.

Alex - Thanks, never thought of that - usually just thinking "SMASH! KILL! DESTROY!" When it happens. I'll try that next time.

It's random, I'm never looking at the display when it happens.

Even better...today I was playing and the volume cut out. Hitting the volume pedal didn't fix it. Had to switch presets and back to fix it. Don't know if it's the same problem getting worse or a new one. Being a random problem it's pointless calling tech support. They must know about this, enough people are seeing it. Sure hope they fix it soon!

That is a very annoying bug that L6 is aware of, and HOPEFULLY it'll be fixed SOON.

That's why I posted about the A/B test I did. I had a preset that was a bit dull sounding, and it sounded much better using the G10 XLR Out. A preset that was fine sounded too bright. So the XLR and an A/B box can provide another tone option, maybe to help cut thu a mix, or?

I haven't tried what you're describing, but I did A/B the two outs. There's no level difference, but there's a definite tone diff between the two. As I understand it, because of the 10' cable emulation on the 1/4" there's a slight HiFreq attenuation that's not present on the XLR. That makes the level sound slightly higher on the XLR, but running through a freq analyzer the overall levels are the same, just slightly different frequencies.

Thru the stereo is easiest, unless you want to use headphones. Tho, in that case, you could run the backing tracks AND the Helix thru the stereo...I use a small mixer, run the music I'm jamming to and the Helix into it, then to headphones OR monitors as circumstances require.

You'll need to run the backing tracks from your computer, connected to the Helix via USB, and set the the Helix as the computer's default sound card.

Playing along, volume disappears. Operate volume pedal, fixed. I've had the unit since 2.01, never had the problem, but remember people talking about it. I'm up to 2.11 now, suddenly, there it is. Can't believe this still isn't fixed. Anybody know anything?

Try it through headphones. If it's still distorted, check your gain staging.

Unless you're really crankin' it, those Yammies are supposed to be really good. I use a pair of Rokit6 and was thinking like you, so I got an Alto TS210. Sounds great, but If I turn it up loud enough to get past Fletcher-Munson, it KILLS my neighbors (apartment).

You want to be sure that the MP3's volume is off when you try this, as you could be VERY loud if the amp's Master isn't after the return jack. I had an old Peavey that was wired like that!

This thread has thoroughly unraveled....

Congratulations PRS! You get the award for MOST PATHETIC USER MANUAL/PRODUCT INFO! If I was you, I'd contact PRS Support for this. It LOOKS, from the pathetic website picture of the back panel, like a proprietary footswitch.

evh0u812 - Which Engl are you using?

No, green cheese is what Gibson was making it's fretboards out of a couple of years back!

But seriously, no way could he have gotten that tone standing on real moon rock.....

Would Armstrong have said what he said if Apollo 11 hadn't been secretly sponsored by Adidas?

Grainy is one of those descriptions like fizzy, it means different things to different people. I spent way too much time trying to eq out what I perceived as Grainy, to no avail. Now, I know that somebody's gonna jump in and say that there's no changes to the amps between versions, but when I updated from 2.01 to 2.10, the Grainy sound miraculously went away. I have no clue why, maybe I'd changed something in the globals that was restored, I have no clue, BUT IT HAPPENED! Now my Helix sounds GREAT and I'm having a ball. YMMV. Good Luck!