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For me personally, the factory presets are mostly just wasted space. I do like to browse them for inspiration but almost never use them as they are. I almost ALWAYS tweak them at least a little and then have to take up another user slot. So it just seems like precious memory that I'd like to be able to use. On the original Helix, I had the Factory Presets saved on my PC so that I could always access them again if I wanted to but then used all the setlist/preset space for my own sounds. So maybe an option to unlock the Factory Presets and then if others want to keep them protected they can also keep them locked.

Also possibly of note, before all this I made sure and uninstalled the Variax Interface through Device Manager.

SOLVED! Wow what a bunch of hoops I had to jump through. 1. I had to "manage bitlocker" in windows settings to "suspend bitlocker" on my drive. 2. windows update>Advanced options>recovery>advanced startup and clicked "Restart" there. 3. On the startup screen "Troubleshoot>Advanced options> Startup settings" then restart again. 4. Option 7 on the startup screen "Disable driver signature enforcement" Then I logged in as normal, reinstalled the Variax USB Interface drivers and Workbench recognized my Variax.

When I click on it in Device Manager it says "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)" in case that helps.

I just noticed the Variax USB Interface has a "!" in the Device Manager! I uninstalled it and then reinstalled the Variax USB Interface Drivers from the Line 6 Downloads section, but it still shows with a "!". So that's likely the issue though I'm not sure what else to do to solve it.

I don't. I was just seeing if central would recognize the Variax. New twist, all works fine on my laptop, so it's something specific to my desktop (both Windows 11). So far my support ticket is going nowhere sadly. Last response (before the update about my laptop) was that it must be my guitar and to take it to a service center. I have two Variaxes and both behave exactly the same.

Already did. We got the Central issue resolved but not the Workbench issue yet.

I tried that. I log in to central, it says my computer is not authorized, so I click "Authorize" and it says "syncing licenses" up top and "Authorizing computer" underneath. The "syncing licenses" goes away but the "Authorizing computer" never goes away and it just continues to say "no license data available." If I go back to the home screen it still shows my computer as "not authorized."

I just had this problem yesterday. First time trying to use workbench in a long time and nothing I did would make it be seen by central or workbench HD. I only have my Stadium now and have sold my old Helix Floor so the USB Variax interface is my only interface. What a bummer. I opened a ticket with Line 6 but I don't have high hopes. I wondered if it's all just been abandoned now since it's discontinued.

I hadn't tried to use workbench in quite a long time. I installed it on my latest PC today and cannot get it to work at all. The Variax interface is green on both sides so it is seeing my Variaxes (both on the last firmware) but workbench HD doesn't see anything. Line 6 Monkey won't log in (and doesn't give the Variax as a device option) and just says it can't connect. Line 6 license manager also says it can't connect. Line 6 Central says this machine isn't authorized, and I click "Authorize" it spins for a second and says it is syncing licenses and then nothing happens. It still say this machine is not authorized. Any ideas? Both my JTV-69 and my Standard get the same results. I've also restarted my machine after installation of the programs.

When I was browsing the release notes, it seemed as if when you clone it, you are cloning it as a snapshot of wherever the setting are at that time, is that correct? Or is there some way to clone it where you will have full range of the controls like "Gain, tone" etc.? Or is it just "Pedal cloned with gain at 5, tone at 5" for example?

This isn't just with ribbon mic and it's only on certain amps. And it's a noticeable difference. Support was going to forward my ticket on to QA.

In my case is was straight on.

Tweaking a new preset and I noticed that the further away you place the mic the louder it gets. 1" is WAY quieter than 12". IS this a bug or intended behavior for some reason? EDIT: May only be with the US Luxe Black model and cab!

That means you are not logged in to your Line 6 account on the Stadium

I love mine. Honestly, I thought it was a bit of an unnecessary purchase as I love my OG Helix floor just fine and I had no desire for a touch screen. After getting it, I do not regret it at all. It has some quirks, it has some things I like better about the old Helix, but overall I think it's an improvement and will only get better. Line 6 has said that most folks said they'd rather have it sooner than later even if that meant more features and bug fixes in later updates. I've come to LOVE the touch screen that I initially thought was unnecessary (for me). So yeah, I don't think it's going to be any huge world shattering game changer for you, and it takes some time to get used to the new ways of doing things (set lists, presets, and such are very different now and I do still prefer the old way better, but I'm getting used to the new work flow). I've gigged with it, and it is now my rig of choice going forward. I use it with every band I play with as well as a MIDI controller for my Nord Stage 3, so as with my old unit, it will get used a LOT, but I've gone all in on it now.

I felt the same way! It worked in reverse from what I *thought* it meant. It's not "bypassing the snapshot control" it is meaning that snapshot control of the block's bypass state is on or off. I think. IIRC.

Am I just missing it? I don't see a way to do a quick "full backup" in the Stadium app. This is puzzling me. I see that you can do it ON the unit to the SD card but see no way to do it in the app to your PC.

I too use Youlean and have my Stadium hooked up via USB-C. I make sure all my presets are hitting around -23, maybe a little more for a solo boost, and that always gets everything at least in the same ballpark, even if there's always some tweaking that still has to be done once you scale it up to a full PA (I run direct).

I did and they basically brushed it off and said "I'm not certain if that is expected behavior concerning search parsing, but you encouraged to submit this as feature request."

I'm curious to hear ideas on how to approximate a Vox UL730 sound being that it was a transistor preamp into 4 EL84s for the power amp. I'm guessing maybe one of the many stomp boxes in front of an AC30 model? Just curious to hear how others might approach it.

Here's a weird one I found today (and opened a ticket). If you do a preset search that includes an apostrophe, it will not match any presets. For example, I have presets titled "I'm Alright" and "Couldn't Get It Right." Searches for "Alright" or "Couldn" will turn up the related presets but searches for "I'm" or "Couldn't" turn up no matches.

I put in a ticket about this as I would love the OG Helix behavior where Wah and Volumes get auto-assigned correctly, but anything else doesn't get auto-assigned to a switch.

I submitted all this to the product feedback. My set lists are per band as well. So I see what you're saying but I don't see it being a problem at least for my personal scenario. Especially as I won't be using showcase at all. the SD card thing just seems like a lot of hoops to jump through. I'm currently still of the opinion that the old Helix way of doing things was actually better, but I'm trying to adapt to the new way to make sure it's not just a case of "familiarity" vs. "new." It used to be so simple and easy to just swap in/out setlists which also included the presets.

The one area I'm finding lacking so far is Preset management. In the OG Helix I had a setlist for each band and could easily offload or reload sets by band as necessary. My current method in Helix Stadium is that I group all User Presets by band, batch color them by band as well, and alphabetize within band groups. Then I can easily just save one band's presets to my PC to make room to load another band's presets if need be. I play and sub in a lot of projects and also lots of one-off shows, and make a preset per song so that the Helix is also my setlist, so they can build up fast. To that end, 3 things I think could vastly improve management. 1. Folders within the User Presets. Then I could have a folder per band. 2. since set lists are just "aliases" pointing to a user preset, being able to rename ONLY the alias would be super helpful. That way if I have 10 songs that just use my "Marshall Plexi" preset, I can rename them for each song while also have them all just pointing to the same preset. As it is now, I just have to have 10 redundant copies of the same preset if I want them to be named for 10 different songs. 3. If I save presets from the setlist to my PC, it only saves 0K "alias" and not the actual preset, which I can't see why I would ever want to do. It seems like it should save the actual preset to my PC. There very well may be better solutions as well, this is just what I've thought of while figuring out my workflow.