gbr13697

That's new. Yesterday the release notes said that there was no update to the app. Now there is a new version.

There is nothing to download to a computer. The Helix Stadium downloads and installs the firmware update over wifi. Go to Settings > Downloads. You will need to be signed in on the Helix Stadium, and there should be a red dot marker on Downloads to indicate that an update is available.

I plugged in the FV500L. Setting the Maximum Volume to Max did correct the range problem as you said. I obviously didn't persevere very much when I tried it! I was able to correct the polarity via Settings > Global Settings > Switches/Pedals > swipe left twice to Flip A (tip) Polarity > set to On. This worked OK with the TS cable plugged into A/B. Note that the setting you need is the Flip A (tip) polarity, NOT the Flip EXP 1/2 Polarity. That applies to the built-in pedal, and will reverse its polarity as you describe. The EV30 has a polarity switch, so I had previously used that instead of delving into Stadium settings. Leaving the polarity flip set to On for the FV500L in the Stadium settings, I was able to switch the EV30 polarity switch back to Normal, so that both pedals now work.

I couldn't get my FV500L pedals to work with the Stadium. 100% in the middle of the travel, with 0% at both ends, and reversed polarity when I experimented. Usual solutions didn't work. EV30 worked OK so I didn't pursue the problem.

The equivalent of Global Blocks in Fractal. Any block can be saved as a Global Block, and then used in other presets. If it is then changed and saved in any preset that uses it, the change propogates through all presets that use it. Fractal also uses Library Blocks, which are the equivalent of Favourite Blocks. A Library or Favourite Block can be saved and recalled for use in other presets, but changes do not propogate.

Sorry to revive this thread. I was hoping that this would have been fixed in the latest update, but it seems not. I do seem to have found a consistent method of assigning 2 blocks to a single footswitch in a toggle function, and getting the ringlight to work the right way round. It seems that the crucial part is which of the two blocks is assigned first. If you get that wrong, it can't be fixed except by clearing all assignment from that footswitch and starting again. If there are any assignments to the footswitch, touch the footswitch to bring up the menu, and clear the assignment. Check that both the blocks are in their required initial bypass state, one on and one off. Select the block that is bypassed. Touch the footswitch, and assign it to that block. As a toggle button will normally need a custom label, touch the footswitch again to enter the label. Then Cancel the pop-up menu - the custom label should remain. Select the second block, that is active. Touch the footswitch and assign it. If the ringlight is on when it should be off, touch the footswitch again so that the ringlight goes off and the select focus changes to the first block. Save the preset. Switch to another preset, and then back again to check that the required state has stuck. I went through all my presets and found about 25 that were not working properly. After carrying out the above process, they are now all working consistently. It is rather tedious, particularly having to retype the custom label on the touchscreen keyboard, but it seems it is the only way to get such toggles to work right.

It has never seemed practical to me to combine expression pedal functions when one of those functions is volume. Numerous blocks and parameters can be controlled by expression, provided that they are in synch with what is required, or when the blocks to be controlled are toggled on and off by snapshots or stomp switches. Personally, I use it to control amp parameters, so that I can smoothly ramp up gain whilst simultaneously adjusting amp volume and EQ to match the gain level. However overall volume is a special case. It is not a parameter that you can afford to lose control of whilst you use the expression pedal for something else. This is particularly so when you have to push volume up to 100% to use the toe switch. I always have a separate expression pedal dedicated to volume, leaving the built-in pedal available for various combination of uses.

I recently watched Rick Reato's interview with Simon Phillips, and they talked a lot about microphones on drum kits. One of the points that came up was that real microphones can get louder when placed further away. It can happen!

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.