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Hi im looking for a solution to power a helix when busking. Must be a battery preferably light and cheap and last a couple of hours. Thanks

Ok I get it now thanks. So apart from a cable solution I guess I could use something like this into the aux and edit each patch to play the aux input HVMLAK Aux Bluetooth Receiver for Car, Mini Bluetooth Aux Adapter v5.3 with Swivel 3.5mm Audio Jack for Hi-Fi Home Stereo Music Streaming, Handsfree Calling, 12 Hours Battery Life, Adjustable Volume https://amzn.eu/d/aTnBMdE

Thanks but That doesn’t make sense. I’m able to play audio through a USB cable to the Helix. All I want to do is replace the cable with a Bluetooth receiver. I’m inclined to just buy them and try it unless anyone can explain why it won’t work and what will?

Can I use a Bluetooth adapter like this dongle https://www.amazon.co.uk/TFUFR-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Receiver-Supports/dp/B09Q8X3LP6/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=bluetooth+receiver+usb+b&qid=1679925916&sr=8-14 with an adapter like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/SHANFEILU-Female-Print-Adapter-Converter/dp/B0BPCY7GV6/ref=sr_1_3?crid=135WX749CFACE&keywords=usb+to+usb+b+adapter&qid=1679926945&sprefix=usb+to++usb+b+%2Caps%2C75&sr=8-3 to turn it into USB B type so I can plug it into the USB of my Helix so that I can play backing tracks over Bluetooth from my iPhone? If not what the solution?

Has there been any development on this - I think it may be a bug too. Heres what Im trying to do I have a midi toggle command set on a preset so that I can play/stop a backing track on Logic. Works great. I have also tried it with CC and Note on and that works too, but toggle is best because the footswitch lights up when its on and goes off when its off, I can't get that to happen on the other types of command. Note that I have dim and Lit both set to 127 to make that happen. All good until when I select the preset the playback starts immediately which is not what I want. I have tried turning off send PC commands in Global settings but that doesn't make any difference. I also tried using the instant command to send a CC message to turn the playback command to 0 in the vain hope that it would somehow get out before the footswitch command. Reading the comment below it would seem that the reason my toggle switch doesnt work is because both Dim and Lit are set to 127. If I set Dim =0 and Lit=127 I can make it so that the preset doesn't automatically play the backing track. However I now have a rubbish switch that I have to press twice to get it to change state and the light can be lit up whether its playing or not. It would be so much better if preset selection didn't send my foot switch commands, period. Is this a design flaw or am I missing something?

Thanks but were talking about a newbie here. Where do you get the updater from? Surely Line6 has an instruction page somewhere?

Can someone guide me to a place where I can see a complete step by step guide to updating to 2.54 firmware. I see some videos for 2.3 but not 2.54. This is for a friend of mine who has a windows machine and is a complete newbie. I have already updated on my Mac a few weeks ago and it was a complete ordeal trying to figure it out - he's totally new so if someone can help show me the simple, yet elusive step by step guide I'd be eternally grateful

Yes I suppose I could make it part of my template going forward. Thanks but then if I go cordless I’ll have to get used to setting the variax

Well I did wonder that but its a bit unintuitive as the default seems to be Don't Force. As my set list gets moved around and I only have one song with a detuning I might forget to update a patch to 'custom standard' and get the same problem. The only solution, if thats the way it works, is not to set up an alt tuning in Helix but set it on the Variax for the song you need it on ?

I have a similar but slightly different issue. If I set a custom tuning in one patch in the Helix it works fine when I select it, but if I then select another patch it keeps the custom tuning even though Im on standard on the Variax. As my patches are essentially song setups it meant last night I started a song in the wrong key because the song previous to it had been setup a whole tone down. Surely it shouldn't do this?

For anyone whose interested I made a Youtube video of how I set up mainstage and helix to produce a click track

In Global settins>midi/tempo> theres a setting for duplicate PC send. Whats this for?

Actually that edit mode save thing is really handy - seems obvious now!

Right, thanks for clearing that one up!

Thanks but it raises another question I don't understand what snapshot discard and recall does. I have it on recall at the moment and if I make a change without saving it goes back to the previous setting. Which seems to be the same thing discard does. I don't see the point, does anyone have an example of how you might want to use one over the other?