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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.

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.

Having updated to 1.2 I am coming across myriads of unwanted snapshot bypass and snapshot control. Most of the presets were imported when I was on 1.1, and the amps now also have snapshot control assigned in addition to the Expression control that was there originally. This was apparently a bug in 1.1 which has been fixed in 1.2. What is still happening is inconsistent copying/pasting of blocks with control assignments. When copying and pasting in the editor, the assignments disappear. This also often happens when using the touchscreen on the Stadium. However I have found that saving the original block as a favourite (using the touchscreen and not the editor), and then creating a new block from the favourite, does usually work and preserves the control assignments.

I assign gain, levels, and EQ to an expression pedal, so that I can ramp up gain smoothly to any point I want, whilst making all the corresponding changes to level and EQ. I use snapshots to change amp channel, Bright switches etc, as well as delay settings. On all other models the change in channel is still within the gain/level limits of what can be controlled within the same assignments to the expression pedal. However, with the Brit 2203MV, the levels are so vastly different that this won't work. As soon as I use a snapshot to change from High to Low, the volume collapses to nothing. I agree that you could get decent sounds from Low and High channels by using a FS or snapshot to drastically alter the gain and volume settings, but these would be fixed and not variable via the expression pedal. As I said above, I can't believe that a Strat plugged into the Low Jack of a JCM800 with drive on 7.6 and MV on 4.5 would be so quiet. I accept that it would be quieter, say -6db which would be half the volume level, but not -15db. It would be nice if a JCM owner could chime in and enlighten me, but I do think that the differences in levels between the High and Low channels are too extreme to be realistic in this particular model.