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Unbelievable. I really thought I must be a complete idiot, when things went wrong. I never would have thought that there is still a bug in the Variax/ Helix Connection. THX!

Perhaps it's only the translation, but I still have a problem understanding. Your first paragraph confirms that the setting I have chosen ensures that no changes are made to the tuning. However, the second paragraph then seems to claim the opposite. As I understand it, only the ‘Don't force’ setting should prevent different tunings that are already stored in the Variax preset from being applied, right? So if I definitely (!) do not want any deviation from the standard tuning, regardless of what the Variax delivers at the input, I must select ‘Custom’ under ‘Tuning (Preset)’.

It's happened to me a few times now that I've suddenly found myself in unwanted alternative guitar tunings. This happened especially after I accidentally selected "Global" instead of "per Preset" when adjusting the tuning (sic!). To be on the safe side, here's my question again: Am I absolutely certain that I'll stay in the standard tuning in Helix if I select "Custom" under "Tuning (Preset)" and then leave everything unchanged at "E-A-D-G-B-E"?

Hello, I am always bothered by some unclear wording in the instructions. This is a bit difficult for me as I am not a native speaker but I do my best Here are a few suggestions for changes, but you are welcome to add more or different forum wording... ... as it includes thousands of files used for the model simulations. Everytime I read the original text I wonder about, if they included additional cab-IRs. It's dumb but I guess it's not me alone ;)) Helix Floor/LT: While holding footswitches 9 & 10 (bottom row, 2 middle switches), turn on Helix Floor/LT and keep the footswitches pressed untill the devices splashscreen disappears. From my POV it is absolutely important to know how long I should press something because it could make a difference and maybe it could crash something, if I release a switch to early?!

A car may not be the best example because I'm pretty sure you can trigger a voice assistant and ask your cars OS to turn on the AC without touching anything. That will not be the way to go on a modeling device, at least in a stage situation.

It happened all of a sudden and without any import or changes other than some block parameters or adding a snapshot within a preset. Even the setlist was not touched. I do backups nearly every time I work with HX Edit and keep backup-files over month so nothing is in danger here. But it would be fine to help L6 to find possible causes for the issue.

THX. I will open up a support-ticket and get back with the answer!

Similarities here. I will open up a support-ticket and get back with the answer!

Hi. Today I noticed a strange symbol and behaviour in HX Edit for the first time. After a backup a plectrum symbol appeared at the end of one of my user setlists (screenshot attached). After restoring this backup, instead of f.e. "034 ENGL 2.2 + plectrum" there appeared "034 New Preset" with a complete empty path. To restore the 032 to 042 I had to go back 3 backups and almost 2 weeks back until the presets were listed correctly again and provided with the correct path content. Anyone ever seen these plectrum of death or have any info on them?

Hi Derek, let's start by checking your signal chain which goes bass > cable > Helix Guitar in > ... please add

My two JTV59s and my Helix's VDI port are the reasons I never checked (at least) KPA or QC and wouldn't try any other competitive modeler or PlugIn. Without the VDI integration, I'll be sure to test some options, regardless of the brand. That's what you're losing, L6. An integrated ecosystem that provides customers with complete care and keeps them within your system.

Sounds a little bit like my reverb-mix problem posted here ...

Makes sense but doesn't help ;) Problem is the accidentally touched mousewheel, when navigating or even editing a wrong row. This could and should be prevented by an additional editor option like "Change values by mouse only when alt key is additionally pressed". This is an option I would definitely activate at some points of my tone building process. Give me a like if you would support such an idea and I will pack it onto ideascale.

Like to aks, before submitting this idea: is there any way to lock a value in HX Edit? It seems that I accidentally change values, using the mousewheel from time to time, so at some point of my tone journey I would like to fix selected presets, snapshots or (better) selected values to avoid unwanted changes. Strange: Both times it seems I had changed values by accident on the mix-value of a reverb block, so my tone was some kind of quite and very spheric.

YouTube is full of comparison vids between HD and Helix. Go and find some and the conclusion, that most of the people comparing those devices prefer the Helix. For myself I had problems recreating my HD tones with the HX until the moment when I realized that it's not practically to try to recreate a more compressed and digital sounding tone. From that moment I tried to build my preferred tones from scratch and only looked back to compare the "direction" of the tones. After 6 month I am not totally there because I had optimized my HD tones over years, to fit them into the construct of our band-sound. But I am absolutely sure, I will get my HX tones better in comparison within the next 6 month!