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The presets I imported from my old Helix were badly affected by the bug that caused snapshot control assignments to be added where they were not previously present. Snapshot control was applied to all parameters in addition to the expression pedal control that was already present. There were up to 24 unwanted snapshot assignments in each of 50 presets. It tooks hours of tedious work to clear them all. The thought of snapshot control assignments being assigned to everything by default horrifies me!

Not without redoing the update! It's just that I find that some important touchscreen buttons are right at the bottom of the screen, and immediately behind the knobs along the bottom of the touchscreen. When this happens, the touchscreen buttons are partially obscured by the knobs unless you are looking directly downwards, and getting my fingers onto the buttons means reaching over the knobs. This was particularly noticeable when dealing with the update, as the large buttons for the next steps in the process were all placed in that position. It just seems unnecessarily awkward when such buttons could easily be placed in clearer and more accessible places on the touchscreen. Or it may just be that I am ham-fisted!

Maybe I missed some advice somewhere, but I just downloaded the update to my laptop and installed it. On the Stadium, it came up with an alert for an update, and I let it get on with it via wifi without connecting it to the laptop. It all worked fine. Was there an instruction I missed about connecting via USB?

Is it just me, or are touchscreen buttons at the bottom of the screen behind the knobs, difficult to get at? It's not too bad in normal operation because the items at the bottom of the screen can usually be controlled by the knobs. However, when doing thr 1.21 update, all the important buttons (Download, Continue, Cancel, etc) were all tucked away there.

I was already using mesh wifi but, when I got a router from my new ISP, my Ring Doorbell chimes stopped working along with several other items. I switched the new ISP router into "modem-only" mode and added a wired router before the mesh. And everything came back online.

I do the same since I had problems with an ISP router being picky about what it would allow on the network.

I started a thread on this subject a while back. Seems it has yet to be resolved.

I agree with this. Blackstars have switches in their jack sockets. You may also find that you need a jack in the amp's Send.

Something to bear in mind is that, when presets were imported from Helix Floor to Stadium on Firmware 1.1, snapshot control assignments were added to anything that had expression pedal control assignments. So where something was assigned to expression pedal control in Helix Floor, in Stadium it will have snapshot control AND expression control. It took me hours to clear up to 24 unwanted snapshot control assignments from about 50 imported presets. Even then I am still having glitches where the block fails to respond to the expression pedal, even though the assignment is on and the Max/Min settings are visible on the parameters, often for expression control of several parameters in a single block. I have cured most of these by clearing the expression control from one of the parameters, and then reassigning it. This will revive all the expression pedal control assignments in the block, even though I only removed and restored the assignment for one parameter. However, I have had instances where I have had to delete and recreate the block altogether as mentioned by PMJNugent above. Copying and pasting blocks also fails to include assignments. I suspect that, when an imported preset already had both snapshot and expression control assigned to a block, the corruption on import to Stadium would cause all sorts of problems. Combine this with the inconsistency when saving snapshots and presets with particular assignments to both EXP1 and EXP2 in different pedal positions, plus the various Global Settings that can have effects, and it all turns into a nightmare. There are so many variables in this that the possibilities of being able to reproduce particular scenarios for Line 6 Support are very remote.

I would much rather see a Global Block feature (as in Fractal), where a block can be saved and where subsequent saved updates to that global block will propogate across all presets that use that block.

Just to be sure, I would check for any volume pedals or snapshot settings that were saved at zero (or on imported presets where the import bug has added snapshot controls that were not there originally). I often have to cycle my expression pedal that sets volume up and down a few times before things come to life. I have also seen controls that don't work at all when opening a preset, and may control a parameter that has set itself to zero. If you switch to a preset that is suffering one of these anomalies, there can be silence.

I have an EV30 working on my Stadium, and that is the way I did it. Of course, you will have the big dead zone at the heel end that all Boss expression pedals seem to have. My workaround for that is to fix a pad to the base under the heel end, so that it stops the pedal travel where the dead zone starts.

Sorry it's not working for you lincolpbarr. My toggles seem to be sticking using the method I detailed, but it is still fragile and flakey. It has to be said that Fractal is undisputed champion of pedalboard layout flexibility, footswitch functionality, assignments and expression control. What you can do with an FC12 and a couple of expression pedals is awesome.

I concur that the interaction between footswitch assignments and snapshots is a bit hit and miss in the Stadium at the moment. Many of my presets that I imported from Helix Floor have had unwanted Snapshot Bypass control and Snapshot Control of parameters added to them, in addition to the footswitch or expression pedal controllers that were there originally. This double-up of controls for the same parameters has been causing me no end of problems, and it is taking an age to go through all the presets and get rid of all the unwanted snapshot controls. The on/off status of the ring lights around the footswitch is also inconsistent. Have you tried activating the snapshot in question, and then also pressing the footswitch to check what happens to the parameters and the ring light? It may just be that the footswitch status is reversed.

I use the same expression pedal (built in to Stadium) to reduce the amp Level as the Gain increases. I also use an external expression pedal, linked to the Output block, to control overall volume.